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 From: chelsearoxx@shaw.ca 
  
 I'm not interested in what the Bishop has to say, nor priests for that 
 matter these days. What makes them different from Jacko? Now they decide to 
 tell us what is right and what is wrong. Same people who persecuted blacks 
 in the 50's.. 
  
 Also what about the same sex couples that don't want kids. I'm happy this 
 legislation passed now they can meddlewith the rest of the issue get over it 
 and get on to other things the country needs to address. 
  
 Kato can marry his lover now. 
  
  
  
  
 "SunDance"  wrote in message 
 news:d9sbdn$l7u$3@utornnr1pp.grouptelecom.net... 
 Calgary Bishop Henry Argues Gay €Marriage€ Legislation is a €Betrayal of 
 Children€ 
  
 CALGARY, June 28, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) € Canadian bishop Fred Henry, 
 in a letter published in the Calgary Sun Sunday, argues that the 
 proposed same-sex €marriage€ law for Canada ignores what is in the best 
 interests of children. 
  
 €The most overlooked and disenfranchised group in the current debate 
 about marriage are children,€ Bishop Henry writes. He argues that the 
 proposed Bill C-38 is a measure that is in the best interest of adults, 
 not children. Parodying the €It's the Charter, stupid!€ logo coined by 
 the Young Liberals at the last national convention, Henry retorts, €It's 
 about children, stupid!€ 
  
 €According to the government's agenda, Bill C-38, the social institution 
 that has always symbolized our society's commitment to the future -- our 
 children, will be transformed into an institution that symbolizes our 
 commitment to the present -- the needs and desires of adults,€ he 
 continues. €Marriage will have a new primary purpose, to validate and 
 protect sexually intimate adult relationships.€ 
  
 The bishop points out the obvious €fundamental difference,€ between 
 traditional and same-sex €marriage€ € homosexual couples can never 
 procreate. €The proposed re-invention of the institution of marriage 
 means that marriage must be disconnected from procreation, and the 
 traditional family, the only institution that honours a child's natural 
 right to know and be cared for by his or her parents, must be 
 dismantled,€ he argues. 
  
 Bishop Henry dismisses the argument that good same-sex parents would be 
 better than poor heterosexual parents: €Given that stable and exclusive 
 homosexual coupling is the exception rather than the norm, to connect 
 homosexual coupling with children's welfare or with a stable environment 
 for children is nothing if not dishonest.€ 
  
 €Families with both mothers and fathers are generally better for 
 children than those with only mothers or only fathers,€ he adds. 
 €Biological parents usually protect and provide for their children more 
 effectively than non-biological ones.€ 
  
 Same-sex €marriage€ €will effectively make children's rights secondary 
 to adults and turn on its head the ethical principle that children, as 
 the most vulnerable people, must come first,€ the bishop maintains. 
 €Children need and have a right to both a mother and a father and a 
 right to be reared by their own biological parents. There is a deep 
 human need to be connected to our origins.€ 
  
 €Changing the definition of marriage to include same sex couples would 
 openly and directly contravene both the right and the norm and would 
 mean marriage could no longer function to affirm the biological bond 
 between parents and their children,€ he concludes. €When there is a 
 conflict between what adults want and what children need, who should be 
 given priority?€ 
  
 Read the full text of Bishop Henry€s letter: 
 http://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/Columnists/Calgary/B... 
  
  
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   Quote: G. K. Chesterton. 
  
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