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Related: About this forumNigeria bishop: Same-sex marriage against human dignity
According to the bishop, spiritual and moral values are being sacrificed in the name of scientific or societal development. With this perspective, he criticized same-sex marriage, and said that it represented the debasement of human dignity and aberration of societal values.
On the other hand, he claimed that culturally and spiritually, marriage is a union between a man and a woman, a truth ordained by God, and because it is a divine order, different sex marriage will always prevail.
http://en.radiovaticana.va/news/2015/08/17/nigeria_bishop_same-sex_marriage_against_human_dignity/1165664
Perhaps some of us won't be attending services in nigeria either?
Perhaps the bishop was just totally off the ranch?
Perhaps there is nothing about this in the official catechism?
trotsky
(49,533 posts)Calling the efforts for marriage equality "ideological colonization" that will destroy the family.
Fuck the old bigots and their old bigoted church.
Lordquinton
(7,886 posts)Not even in San Francisco is there a decent bishop in charge.
mr blur
(7,753 posts)just to not step into his church. Still, any Catholic church will do - ignorance and bigotry know no national boundaries.
kwassa
(23,340 posts)This is reflected in all the churches, too. There has been a civil war going on in Anglican Communion since we elected our first gay bishop in 2003. The anti-gay contingent was led by the archbishop of Nigeria, Peter Akinola, but they have no power over us.
Nigeria was going to make homosexuality punishable by death, but the legislation was tabled.
AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)Splinter echo churches?
I wonder, did they come up with it on their lonesome, or did they get a 'push'.
kwassa
(23,340 posts)American fundamentalists have also been very active in the region supporting this homophobia.
uriel1972
(4,261 posts)Iggo
(47,558 posts)Fuck you, Bishop.