…to all those furious people in the USA and elsewhere by making an announcement that marriage is between a man and a woman.
Now I know this is a bit of a semantic difference – the Pope is obviously talking about the Catholic definition of marriage – butI’d just like to say that it in fact isn’t. It hasn’t been so since 2001, when the world’s first gay marriage took place in Holland.
His pronouncement is borne out of the ‘unnamed threat’ fear. The US marriages (see previous posts on this blog and elsewhere, or click this google search) have not been religious or Catholic, and yet the Pope feels his church’s own marriages are challenged enough to reiterate its already–well–known policy.
A stand made by a quavering old man isn’t going to stop gay people loving each other, I’m afraid.
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