Ok, so be prepared to be offended, and remember i'm just blowing off steam...
Ok, so here's my thing. Our population is exploding, disease is rampant, orphanags are full to busting, children are dying of hunger, being sold as sex slaves, and working in terrible conditions without receiving an education or wages. Meanwhile, people keep having babies. Ok, I understand that you want to create something, a lasting token of your union, but a dog or a cat would work, wouldn't it? (I know, I know). There really should be requirements for becoming a parent.
And so, what does the Catholic church do? Say that marriage must be defended. In the past there was at least a logical reason for this (or logical as the church gets, anyway, I should say mercenary): to increase the Catholic population and thus provide more money and profit for the church, as well as driving dissenters down and non-Catholics out of the country. Then, you could use fear tactics to get the people to give you their full and undivided devotion (the protestants did this too, only they couldn't buy their way out of sin, so they just knew they were going to hell anyway.), and rake in a little profit from those seeking redemption. Also, there was the possibility that one kid might become a priest and go missionizing, colonizing 'heathen devils' and making for more Catholic influence internationally.
Now, so many children live in the streets, are sold into slavery, to pay off debts or sent to become prostitutes or victims of sexual abuse. More still lie in hospitals and orphanages. We are destroying our resources with the sheer need of human consumption, from animals to water to fields to workers, we just don't have enough. And it doesn't have to be this way. It will take too long for us to see, but it could turn around. Something has to give, and it will most likely be the human population, which will die out eventually, a faint spark and a shell of a convenience store packed with glossy magazines and Coke will be the only evidence.
Same sex marriages seem a rather trite deal next to all of this. You can still have kids. The Catholics, in fact, should welcome them in with open arms, because, since the church no longer
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Maybe we'd all feel a little less sick to our stomachs and more able to appreciate things if we knew someone were taking care of the needy, the sick, the unhappy, the poor. I hope not. Complacency is a dead oyster, an apple that rots when it likes the tree too much to let go. Your roots are showing, time to dye your skin.
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Fear is a basic animal instinct, it's what makes us tick. Fear of being alone, of losing one's job, of pain all stem from the fear of dying, the self-preservation instinct that make us insanimals. Insanimals because we are animals that try to distance ourselves from animals and from life, as far as possible inside boxes and wires and magnificent machines that make us ever more lonely every day.
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