Via JMG: HomoQuotable - Frank Bruni
"Repeatedly over the last year and a half, I’ve written about teachers
in Catholic schools and leaders in Catholic parishes who were dismissed
from their posts because they were in same-sex relationships and — in
many cases — had decided to marry. Every time, more than a few readers
weighed in to tell me that these people had it coming. If you join a
club, they argued, you play by its rules or you suffer the consequences.
Oh really? The rules of this particular club prohibit divorce, yet the
pews of many of the Catholic churches I’ve visited are populous with
worshipers on their second and even third marriages. They walk merrily
to the altar to receive communion, not a peep of protest from a soul
around them. They participate fully in the rituals of the church, their
membership in the club uncontested. The rules prohibit artificial birth
control, and yet most of the Catholic families I know have no more than
three children, which is either a miracle of naturally capped fecundity
or a sign that someone’s been at the pharmacy." -
Frank Bruni, writing for the
New York Times.
Reposted from Joe Jervis
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