Gay marriage foes change their tactics, but not their tune | National Catholic Reporter

Gay marriage foes change their tactics, but not their tune | National Catholic Reporter These idiots, who are essentially working for bishops who hate to admit the Magisterium can ever be wrong, forget that Canon law states that only functionality is necessary for marriage, not fecundity.  Older couples could not marry (or have sex) if the ability to have offspring from the sexual act was a requirement.  Marriage is about creating family units (and gay people may have kids, either from a straight marriage designed to pass or children inherited from family members who have passed).  Not recognizing these unions (which are sacramental if vows are exchanged - even without a priest - who is the witness, not the celebrant - again, according the the theology of marriage) is, in essence, leaving gay people as infants who are forever tied to their families of origin.  While civil unions can do this, the reality is that such a state is MARRIAGE and to not call it that is simply pandering to religious people.  It is time to quit pandering and call it marriage.  The reason the Church is so adament about this is the same reason it won't budge on birth control - even though it is wrong on that as well.  Their entire intellectual construct of Magisterial infalliabilty  would fall apart if they admitted error on these issues.