Tobin Slams Synod Too | National Catholic Reporter

Tobin Slams Synod Too | National Catholic Reporter by MSW.  MGB: You knew there had to be a third and it would probably be Tobin.  That makes him Curly Joe, since Dolan is too good a politician to hang out in their tub (as in rub a dub dub).  It appears that these remarks were not staff  generated, although they may have been.  Irregardless, the comments have been closed - so you can image the reaction.



I think that Tobin might have written an article in America more than ten years ago about gay marriage.  He, or some other older bishop, questioned why one could not marry a family member.  No one makes that analogy now.  The reason is it is obvious that family members need no additional legal connection to act as next of kin for each other.  That is actually the reason we need gay marriage. People should have the right to chose their own next of kin.  To not do so is to make them perpetual infants (which is also what happens to you when you are divorced and your kids are under legal age).  Its probably also a good reason to change how we deal with divorce and remarriage (although the usual rules certainly did not do Anna Nicole Smith any good).