Comments on: Maine’s Bishop Malone: Gay Marriage ‘A Dangerous Sociological Experiment’

By: Orson

Orson — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 22:00:20 +0000

After all the anguish homo-sexual priest ephebophiles what position do you expect him to take?

By: James Fox

James Fox — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 20:24:05 +0000

Can’t understand why the people who are so upset with the churches that oppose “gay marriage” look at the excesses of the Gay Rights movement. As a society, we tend to oppose those groups that resort to violence, profanity, or blasphemy to get their points across. Until the Gay Rights movement disowns the people that freak mainstream people out i.e. the transgender, the leather and chains crowd, etc…, they will have to put up with so called “homophobia.”

Don’t want the church telling others what to do? That’s okay, but the people so opposed to the churches and others expressing their views on homosexuality should not ream us in the backside with their agenda by calling us names or using the courts and the ACLU to suppress the voice of those opposed to gay marriage/rights.

By: will clemens

will clemens — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 13:39:20 +0000

@edgyguy1426: Guy, If your a budhist I would love to ask you a question on reincarnation.

By: Fr. Marty Kurylowicz

Fr. Marty Kurylowicz — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 11:51:37 +0000

I wrote a comment to a news article in the Bangor Daily News 9/28/09 about Maine’s Catholic Bishop Malone’s antigay statement, in support of Marriage Equality and challenging the his ignorance about human sexuality and the bible. It may help support Marriage Equality from the lack of education on the truth of human sexuality and the bible.

“…Same-sex marriage is a dangerous sociological experiment that many of us believe will have negative consequences for society as a whole,” said [Bishop] Malone in the message, according to the Bangor Daily News. “Children need the love of a mother and a father.”?
http://www.bangordailynews.com/detail/122793.html

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.

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.

I think Marriage Equality is bringing the LGBT population to a healthy state mind and well-being, where it belongs. I think in truth and soon more significantly by research we are going to find that the general population is more LGBT as a whole, than not.

I say this from being a bartender, priest, pastor, psychologist and now an activist of the LGBTI people. My life has always been surrounded by a diversity of people. Researchers show us that components of human sexuality are on continuums. This means that nearly everyone is a mixture of LGBT components to some degree.

And the harsh ignorant antiLGBTI social and religious norms just keeps us separated from one another because of what we cannot accept in our themselves.

Educating people about the complexities that make up human sexuality that each person is a unique mixture of components of LGBTI, it will, for one, increase the human potential in the world by leaps and bounds, finding cures of all kinds of diseases and much more.

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.

With all best wishes,

Fr. Marty Kurylowicz

By: Marion from Germany

Marion from Germany — Mon, 11 May 2009 14:42:45 +0000

@Jon from Maine: your absolutely right, but it´s easier to point on others than on theirselves.The church has to accept that civil rights are an political issue and have to be separated from religion.

By: Jon from Maine

Jon from Maine — Mon, 11 May 2009 01:18:20 +0000

Don’t you think the catholic church needs to clean up their own back yard before attacking others…

By: Chris_Yes that one

Chris_Yes that one — Sun, 10 May 2009 19:19:32 +0000

@No.15 edgyguy1426

What I mean is this HOMOPHOBIA is HOMOPHOBIA. When Queerty post about the African American Church and HOMOPHOBIA you get hundreds of comments with such anger at Blacks because of it.

Now we have a post here where The mostly caucasian Catholic Church is producing their HOMOPHOBIA. And it seems with that of the mostly caucasian crowd that protest against The AA Church. Well where are they now with this one?

Or we do we only accept HOMOPHOBIA from some and NOT from others????

By: edgyguy1426

edgyguy1426 — Sun, 10 May 2009 17:08:40 +0000

@Chris_Yes that one: Where are all the folks with such anger at “The African American Church”……..where are they? Why would anyone with anger at African American churches be commenting here..I don’t understand the connection…help

By: john r

john r — Sat, 09 May 2009 21:40:09 +0000

when will this belief that antiquity is a litmus test for the truth ever end? any one who has any knowledge of history, particularly, of christianity knows that that simply not true.

and also, that belief is centered around the concept of “i” (and in most cases it is about “versus you” “i believe this “” i dont believe that”

that unless belief is transformed into faith thru grace it, it never becomes christ centered and therefore has nothing to do with christ.

to hear clergy speak in ways that are totally oblivious to this, identifies the state of christendom.

By: alicia banks

alicia banks — Sat, 09 May 2009 18:08:31 +0000

het divorce stats prove that het marriage is the failed experiment!…

peace
ab
http://aliciabanks.blogspot.com/

By: schlukitz

schlukitz — Sat, 09 May 2009 17:21:32 +0000

@stevenelliot:

Love it! ;-)

By: Chris_Yes that one

Chris_Yes that one — Sat, 09 May 2009 17:16:55 +0000

Well, Well, Well,

Where are all the folks with such anger at “The African American Church”……..where are they? Or are they’re accepting of “WHITE” HOMOPHOBIA????

Just asking.

By: Jon from Maine

Jon from Maine — Sat, 09 May 2009 12:23:37 +0000

Does he pay taxes?

By: Bob

Bob — Sat, 09 May 2009 03:12:56 +0000

Why do people who have over the years supported torture, pedophiles, and vast corruption have any influence?

Wait am I talking about the Catholic Church or the GOP?

By: stevenelliot

stevenelliot — Fri, 08 May 2009 23:24:22 +0000

Hate thy brother but by all means, molest thy brother’s son. The catholics. All dolled up with smoke and mirrors, pomp and circumstance and no where to go.

By: ZJ

ZJ — Fri, 08 May 2009 23:01:01 +0000

One man and one woman? Throughout history and across cultures, marriage has just as often been one man and one woman and one woman and one woman and so on. It’s even in the Bible. Evidently nobody had a problem with multiple women in a marriage together. So why are they so insistent on redefining “traditional marriage” now?

By: Raven

Raven — Fri, 08 May 2009 21:21:26 +0000

Soooo sick of these people acting like they have the final word on the way people should run their lives. ARGH!!!! Sick, sick, sick of it.

By: Peter

Peter — Fri, 08 May 2009 18:05:08 +0000

What is a “millennia” that we’ve known to be the present idea of marriage of a man and woman, only? I thought the catholics thought up the ‘sacrament of marriage’ in 1512. That was less than 500 years ago. What were the rules before that when the “church” had a liturgy and married two men, as a common practice? Seems to me that some rules can be changed in one direction, but they can not be changed back to what was historically the rule.
Discrimination seems to be the ‘in’ thing for them.

By: Dick Mills

Dick Mills — Fri, 08 May 2009 17:40:07 +0000

If you want to talk about “Dangerous Sociological Experiments” lets discuss Religion! How many millions upon millions have been killed at the hands of the religious?

By: Tarcash

Tarcash — Fri, 08 May 2009 17:28:28 +0000

If the church wishes not to be meddled with by the government, then the church should not meddle with the government.

I’m sick of this, can we tax them already, since they seem so keen on forcing their religious views on those of us who don’t believe in the mythical sky pixie?

By: Alec

Alec — Fri, 08 May 2009 17:17:10 +0000

@edgyguy1426: He’s being less than honest. The Catholic Church doesn’t support domestic partnerships; sometimes they support what can be called “domestic beneficiary” legislation, which encompasses relationships like parent/child, brother/sister, etc. His diocese may have taken this position, probably to avoid civil unions and marriage, but it isn’t the position of the Catholic Church.

By: edgyguy1426

edgyguy1426 — Fri, 08 May 2009 17:09:20 +0000

…and you can’t sling around the words ‘dangerous’ and ‘tragic’ without going into details….but maybe a lot of people weren’t trained to think critically and won’t stop to parse this out.

By: edgyguy1426

edgyguy1426 — Fri, 08 May 2009 17:07:20 +0000

How can the Diocese support domestic partnerships when the basic tenets behind them are deemed sinful? It suggests that the church is promoting sinful behaviour. This seems to me, as far as the church is concerned a black or white situation. I find it laughable then the church is making ‘We gave them an inch, now they want a mile’ argument. If you deem homosexuality wrong, then how can you support domestic partnerships? I’m not a christian, I’m a buddhist, and I don’t understand how they got around to accepting domestic partnerships, maybe I was sick that day and didn’t buy the paper, but it seems once they put one toe in the water there, it greatly weakened their position.