Some Catholics are an embarrassment


                                     ... example number one: Bill Donohue

One of the problems with Catholics is that some of them are simply an embarrassment. That is the case with Bill Donohue, who is not just an embarrassment, he is a numskull.

He is basically eviscerated by Chris Cuomo of CNN when he says that love is not supposed to be a component of marriage: a family is. 

"Marriage is about family, it is not about love," Donohue said. 

I am the last person to talk about what marriage should be, but by taking love out of the equation, the self-proclaimed sociologist says that marriage between a man and woman is ordained by nature. 

Oops, marriage is an institution that is ordained by government, not by nature. The sexual attraction is natural, but not the institution.

I understand why Catholics have problems with gay marriage, but people are carrying this religious freedom argument too far. The first amendment reads this way: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof … "

Essentially, this means that everyone in America has the right to establish a religion, number one; and number two, it cannot forbid anyone from exercising any religion, whether it is one that advocates polygamy or one that is a mainstream religion that advocates traditional marriage. 

This does not mean that any person or institution has a right to prohibit anyone from marriage. That can be argued effectively on biblical grounds, but not as a freedom or as a violation of a person's civil rights. That freedom is non-existent. 

Anyway, if you have the institutional fortitude to listen to and watch this discussion, here is the link: 

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/02/27/cnn-host-gives-catholic-league-epic-lesson-on-equal-rights-you-do-not-own-marriage/

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