Catholic Lawyers Appeal Gay Marriage
February 28, 2010 by Gay Agenda News Team
The Corporation of Catholic Lawyers is appealing the decision of a Buenos Aires judge which, on Tuesday, allowed two gay men to marry in the Argentinean capital. The lawyers assert that her ruling violates the country’s current laws and causes “irreparable damage.”
On Tuesday, Judge Elena Libertatori ordered the Civil Registry to marry a homosexual couple, a move which the Catholic lawyers said was equivalent to an assault on the constitutional rights of a large spectrum of citizens who adhere to the natural order and to moral and religious principles.”
In their appeal, the lawyers noted that the “family is the natural and fundamental element of society and has the right to the protection of society and of the state.” The decision by the Civil Registry not to officiate at this same-sex union was not arbitrary or discriminatory, because it protects marriage as an institution of natural order.
“Since natural marriage is ordered toward the family, which depends on procreation for survival, no homosexual union can base itself solely on complete marital consent.
“For this reason, the union between persons of the same sex can never constitute marriage, much less found a family, as homosexual marriage is unconstitutional and violates human rights,” they added.
“Since natural marriage is ordered toward the family, which depends on procreation for survival”
I can’t have kids, so does that make my marriage unconstitutional? And in case these lawyers didn’t notice, you don’t have to be married to make a baby.
“For this reason, the union between persons of the same sex can never constitute marriage, much less found a family, as homosexual marriage is unconstitutional and violates human rights”
So what they’re saying is that a gay marriage is unconstituional because they can’t make a baby, what has making babies have to do with civil rights? Do they ever hear themselves talk?
AGAIN- stupidity should be illegal
Yet again, the old irrational “it isn’t a marriage if you can’t make babies” argument, ignoring the fact that procreation has never been a requirement for marriage in modern times and places, marriage isn’t needed for procreation, and with a little help, gay people can and do procreate, just like many straight couples who need help.
As the catholics demonstrate, this is about enforcing an irrational, scientifically unsupportable, religious taboo. We have the science which says we are a natural expression of the human population. (As well as the animal kingdom.) There is no rational, scientific, or logical reason to harm us. The only excuse lies in a few religious texts which have been misinterpreted and mistranslated as they have been handed down through the ages, and they are contradicted by other texts, like the ones which say all you need to know is that you are supposed to love everyone else just like you love God.
Non believers and rational religious believers can be convinced with reason, science, logic, and confrontation on their false beliefs. Religious homophobes however, will remain a challenge. Because the religious taboo is rooted in a belief system that removes responsibility for your actions from you and gives it to a leader who claims to be speaking for god… reason, logic, science, and even threats will not easily work against religious beliefs. While I don’t know what the Argentine laws are, removing homophobia from the laws and establishing full equality as the US constitution promises won’t end the prejudice, but at least it will end the use of our tax dollars to teach that punishing us is necessary. Legal equality is an essential part of solving the problem. Any law anywhere which punishes us by denying equality, stigmatizes us all. “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” (MLK)
I’ve never been a huge fan of the Catholic Church, mainly because they are (in my opinion) very pompous and don’t practice what they preach. How many stories have we all heard about priests and little boys? It’s ok for them to molest children, but it’s not ok for 2 men to marry because they can’t make a baby. It makes no sense to me, but in their twisted minds it all makes perfect sense.
Not every heterosexual couple is going to have kids, I can’t but even if I could my husband thinks this world is to f-ed up to bring a child into it. He’s afraid that someone would hurt a kid of his and then he would lose his mind and do something that could cause alot of trouble. I doubt I’d be much better, I was ready to beat the sh*t out of some kid once just for telling my sister she was ugly.
Children aren’t needed for a happy marriage, just 2 people being together can be enough. Last night my husband and I just spent the evening together watching the old Wonder Woman TV show, nothing fancy, no baby making, just us laughing at an old TV show then laying in bed talking to each other for a while. Marriage is supposed to be about happiness, love, friendship- it doesn’t have to include children for it to be a marriage.
The religious right wingers don’t want traditional marriage changed, well sorry but it has changed. I don’t sit home all day and let my husband worry about the bills, I’m in a Medical Billing and Coding program to become certified so I can hopefully get my foot in the door of the medical industry.
These people need to wake up, it’s the year 2010 and it’s time to leave bizarre religious myths in the past.