Links for 01/25/16 | National Catholic Reporter

Links for 01/25/16 | National Catholic Reporter by MSW. MGB: When the consequence is the mass murder of war, the law is clear that public officials who misbehave are to be treated as war criminals, both under U.S. and International Law.  Its why Cheney, Bush and Rumsfeld can't really leave the country for fear of arrest.  Since the statute of limitations does not expire on war crime, only the Pearly Gates may eventually keep Rumsfeld and Cheney out of prison.



Actually, Catholic canon law about homosexuality gobbledygook.  If people are born gay (we now know that the mechanism is epigenesis in the womb) and are entitled to sexuality, then their sexuality should be channeled like hetosexual desire, toward permanent loving relationships.  Marriage as a Roman sacrament is performed by the couple.  Gays do that too.  Fecundity is not a requirement of Catholic marriage - just functionality.  Thinking that because you think gay sex is icky that it is not functional (heterosexuals do the same things, by the way, and its none of the Church's business) is gobbledygook.



The fact is that marriage is both the joining of two families and the creation of a separate family that repaces the families of origin legally (divorce undoes that, legal separation does not).  It is the height of either political correctness or pandering (take your pick) to think religious sensibilities need to be assuaged by a separate category of civil unions.  It is also bigotry, because gay citizens deserve the same rights and privileges in marriages as heterosexuals - at least under the law.  The courts considered the argument by the Institute of Marriage and its colleagues as gobbledygook. We need religious gay weddings, not because the state requires it, but because families deserve, both the couples and families of origin.  Its time for the Catholic press to report the truth rather than enabling bad theology on marriage.l



Tom Cotton is a pandering idiot who is probably also a racist.  Some of what is needed can be accomplished in the short term by the pardoning power - although Obama would have to put serious pressure on the DOJ pardon office or create an end around - although true reform would medicalize criminal justice in almost all respects - and Catholic Health Care and other private providers don't have the resources to do what is needed - or don't want to put them forth.  This is as shameful as Tom Cotton.