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| PAPROCKI: The disciplinarian? |
Both
of them this week made it clear they’re not about to go along with anything
that is about recognizing marriage as being a legitimate concept for gay
couples.
THE
INDIANA HOUSE gave its approval on Tuesday to a measure that puts a ban on gay
marriage into the Indiana state Constitution. Although it still needs approval
from the Indiana state Senate, and another round of Legislature approval in
2015 – before it can go on the ballot for Indiana voters to decide in 2016.
Meanwhile,
Bishop Thomas Paprocki – who heads the Catholic church in Springfield and
surrounding parts of central Illinois – gave an interview to a
religious-oriented website in which he made it clear he’s standing by the
prayer ritual he did last year on the day that Gov. Pat Quinn signed gay
marriage into Illinois law.
You
remember the exorcism? He tried to drive out the demons, so to speak, that
caused our political people to approve the change in law!
If
anything, Paprocki bothers me more, and not just because he’s actually a
Chicagoan who used to be a priest in the Chicago archdiocese before he moved up
in the Catholic church ranks by moving down in terms of location.
IN
HIS INTERVIEW, Paprocki claimed that being opposed to gay marriage is
equivalent to disciplining a misbehaving child. You do it to teach a lesson,
while expressing love and caring for the child.
“You
really have to understand what love is all about. Love is really to seek the
best for people. By being opposed to the redefinition of marriage and being
opposed to things that are sinful, that’s actually a very loving thing,” he
said to the Lifesitenews.com website.
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| They were dealt a blow Tuesday! |
What
a batch of bull!?!
Too
many of the people who are pushing for a rejection of marriage for all are
doing so because of their desire to want to look down, so to speak, upon
others. For Paprocki to get so worked up in his desire to offer aid and comfort
to that segment of our society is what makes others amongst us convinced that
the church structure becomes the source of our problems.
HE
STIRS UP more resentment, and makes it more difficult for rational thought to
prevail.
Whereas
the Indiana General Assembly’s behavior was just so predictable. With other
states taking on the gay marriage issue, the Republican leadership decided that
not only was it NOT going to go along, it was going to take a spiteful
response.
Hence
the writing of the concept of a marriage ban for non-traditional couples into
their state Constitution. Which makes it all the more difficult for the issue
to be addressed seriously.
It
becomes all too similar to many of the southern states that, in the years after
the Civil War, created state constitutions that included restrictions on black
people and made it near-to-impossible for future Legislatures to erase them.
THOSE
POLITICAL PEOPLE were determined to maintain a segregationist mindset and
prevent some foolish (to their mentality) pols of the future from doing away
with it.
Just
as it would seem some want to ensure that no “gay marriage nonsense” ever taints
the Hoosier state!
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| PHILIP: Showed restraint? |
When
Illinois, back in 1996 when Republicans ran everything, altered state law to
make it further clear that marriages between gay couples were NOT permissible,
they never went so far as to go to the state Constitution amendment route.
Even
the legislative era of James “Pate” Philip managed to show a little bit of
restraint in its ideological maneuvers.
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