Snatched from ysabet

*whips out Dogma icon* Okay, folks, you know what this means! It's time for religious commentary!

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True Story. A religion teacher assigned her class an essay on what makes a good Christian. One student wrote about praying nightly, say no to abortion, banning gay marriage, and donating money. The other student wrote about talking to God and allowing people to enjoy their lives, and supporting gay marriage. The day the teacher was to hand the papers back, she called up the second student and told him she would pray for him when he went to hell. The student asked why would he be going to hell, and why he got an F on his paper. The teacher told him that Catholisim is against gay marriage. The student looked at her for a minute, then said aloud, "I'm gay." The teacher kicked him out of class as if he had said fuck or worshiped Satan. A girl in the back of class who had a boyfriend and was obviously straight got up and left too.

If you would leave the classroom, repost this. It doesn't matter if you're straight, bi, or gay. It doesn't matter if you're catholic or not. Everyone is a human being and deserves happiness.

If I said everything I wanted to on the matter, it would take all day, so I'm just going to stick to the important parts.
A) Catholic Dogma needs to be updated. Badly. Most of it was written with situations from hundreds of years ago in mind. Times have changed. We need new guidelines--like how you don't need to be a childbearing couple to get married. (Yes, that's the official Dogma. If you can't have kids, you aren't supposed to tie the knot. Note how this extends to heterosexual couples. It's also why we're against contraceptives and abortions. Our only goal, it would seem, is to fill the world with little Catholic babies. Adoption would work just as well, I think, especially since the world is overpopulated as it is.)
B) We're supposed to have church and state seperate. It was one of the big draws to America in the good old days. If that's the case, we certainly shouldn't be defining marriage based on religion. Either it's a legal function and it shouldn't matter what gender people are, or it's a religious one, and we shouldn't be practicing it anyway.