Catholic League: Marriage has nothing to do with love.

Thursday’s episode of the Current Television show “Viewpoint,” host John Fugelsang interviewed the leader of the Catholic League, Bill Donahue. The interview centered around Donahue’s outspoken position against marriage equality for gays. During the interview however, Donahue made the claim that marriage has nothing to do with love.

Donahue asserts that the Ten Commandments states that people should honor thy father and mother, not honor thy father and thy father. Fugelsang responds by pointing out that has nothing to do with love. This prompts Donahue to surprisingly state:

“But marriage has nothing to do with love.”

Donahue goes further saying:

“It’s one of the most bizarre ideas in the whole world that you have be in love to get married. Usually, it is a form of duty.”

It should be pointed out that Biblically speaking, Donahue is correct. Marriage has nothing to do with love, but was a form of ownership. Fathers would sell off their daughters to worthy men. Women were the property of their fathers and then became the property of their husbands.

Fortunately, in modern society we no longer support the “tradition” view of marriage. Instead, in our society people are free to marry for love and usually do.

Incidentally, Catholicism also has nothing to do with love.

Archbishop: Support marriage equality? No Eucharist for you! →

Catholic Archbishop Allen H. Vigneron of Detroit said on Sunday that Catholics who support gay marriage yet take the sacrament of Communion are contradicting themselves, echoing recent calls from a religious scholar for supporters of gay marriage to withdraw from taking the Eucharist.

According to the Detroit Free Press, Archbishop Vigneron said that Catholics who support gay marriage “deny the revelation Christ entrusted to the church.”

Oh, it’s just another example of the Catholic Church bullying its members into submission to conformity. “Agree with oppression and marginalization or else you’re not allowed to partake in the thing that we taught you an all-powerful god insists you partake in!”

Robertson: 'Simple' Foreigners More Likely to Experience Miracles than 'Sophisticated' Americans →

Today on the 700 Club, a viewer asked host Pat Robertson why miracles such as “people raised from the dead, blind eyes open, lame people walking” seem to “happen with great frequency in Africa, and not here in the USA?” Robertson first responded by joking it is “because those people overseas didn’t go to Ivy League schools.”

It’s true, people stop believing in miracles and dragons and fairies and gods when they get an education.

poetic-roadrage:

“I know people who became atheists after reading the bible”

Reading a english mistranslation with editing done by various and sundry scribes and whatnot this is very important I take your critical analysis very seriously tell me more

Oh, is there a language where The Bible doesn’t have any stories about supernatural creatures, events or “prophecies”?

(via poetic-roadrage-deactivated2013)

Pluto's Gate to Hell uncovered in Turkey →

Please tell every Bible literalist who thinks the discovery of locations or characters from the Bible prove it true, that this discovery obviously then must prove every Greek myth true.