The May 2010 Euthanasia Prevention Coalition Newsletter can now be found at: http://www.euthanasiaprevention.on.ca/Newsletters/Newsletter108(May2010)(RGB).pdf Bill C-384 was soundly defeated by a vote of 228 to 59. Check how the Members of Parliament voted at: http://www.euthanasiaprevention.on.ca/HowTheyVoted.pdf On June 5, 2010, we are co-hosting the US/Canda Push-Back Seminar at the Radisson Gateway Hotel at the Seattle/Tacoma Airport. The overwhelming defeat of Bill C-384 proved that we can Push-Back the euthanasia lobby in the US and Canada and convince people that euthanasia and assisted suicide are a dangerous public policy. Register for the Seminar at: http://www.euthanasiaprevention.on.ca/2010SeminarFlyer(RGB)(LetterFormat).pdf The Schindler family are being attacked by a Florida television station and Michael Schiavo. The Euthanasia Prevention Coalition is standing in solidarity with the Schindler family. My blog comments: http://alexschadenberg.blogspot.com/2010/05/att
Reflections from the pastoral ministry of an Evangelical Catholic Priest.
" "I, ______, take you, ______, to be my wife/husband. I promise to be true to you in good times and in bad, in sickness and in health. I will love you and honor you all the days of my life."
ReplyDeleteThe Catholic marriage ceremony and that of many other denominations and religions focuses on the support two spouses have for each other. They are two people who have promised publicly to support and love the other person in good times and in bad. There is no talk of sex despite its importance to the theologians and indeed one thing one learns from being married is that sex is good but loving someone and committing to someone is much better.
Indeed if you took the theologians at their word a couple who separated and then moved on to a subsequent relationships where the new partners lived their vows of supporting the new partner as above but didn't engage in sex would be okay. The theologians need to tone down the sexual obsession and realize that marriages are 95% (or so) non sexual and 5% sexual (or so).