Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Maine Bishop Fights Marriage Equality - By Julie Bolcer - Advocate.com & Bangor Daily News

The Bishop of Portland recorded a special message that was played in at least one church on Sunday to help raise funds for the campaign against marriage equality. Photo

The Roman Catholic Church in Maine continued to collect donations for the campaign against marriage equality over the weekend, aided by a recorded message from the Bishop of Portland that played during a Sunday service at least one church…

“Same-sex marriage is a dangerous sociological experiment that many of us believe will have negative consequences for society as a whole,” said Malone in the message, according to the Bangor Daily News. “Children need the love of a mother and a father.”
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Comment by Fr. Marty Kurylowicz

“Same-sex marriage is a dangerous sociological experimentthat many of us believe will have negative consequences for society as a whole,” he said. “Children need the love of a mother and a father.”Bangor Daily News

This statement is cruel and untrue. People against Marriage Equality do not base their public statements on facts either from science or the bible. It is a repeat of the time the Vatican was condemning Galileo, because they insisted that Galileo was going against the bible that it is the sun that revolves around the earth.

Children need people who are honest and truthful. Children are not safe around people who publicly speak out against Marriage Equality, because in truth these people have had no formal study in human sexuality or the bible and yet they without any intellectual thought speakout and harm innocent people. This is irresponsible adult behavior, which is harmful for children to witness. This has been proven to have “negative consequences” for children, consult developmental psychology.

With all due respect, it is without a question that Bishop Malone would not be able to pass graduate course exams on human sexuality, sexual orientation, and gender identity or biblical studies. Prove me wrong!!!

And if Bishop Malone cannot pass these exams today, than before God he needs to publically retract what he said against Marriage Equality. If not, then Bishop Malone needs to go back to the seminary to study moral theology.

The best thing to do for the well-being and safety of all children would be if people against Marriage Equality spent their money to academically study human sexuality, sexual orientation, gender identity and the bible. This is what children need the truth. People speaking out on such life and death issues should not speak out of ignorance and fear, thus spreading hatred and violence that indiscriminately is severely harmful to all children.

The truth will set you free - not ignorance and fear.

Fr. Marty Kurylowicz


1 comment:

Michael said...

thanks for posting a response on my blog www.samesexmarriageadvocate.blogspot.com

Its a an education process " Minds are like parachutes they only function when open"