Posts Tagged ‘gay marriage’
Why don’t Catholics condemn divorce as passionately as gay marriage?
A Quiner Diner’s reader asks: “Why don’t Catholics condemn divorce (especially no-fault divorce) the same as same-sex marriage? Jesus never spoke of homosexuality (and even Paul’s stand can be debated). Jesus spoke out several times against divorce – he saw it as adultery.” Here’s the answer …
Read MoreThe Des Moines Register runs Quiner’s Diner this morning
To their credit, the Register didn’t edit a word of my piece, except for the headline. Those of us supporting Chick-fil-A were involved, not because of Chick-fil-A, but as ardent supporters of free speech and religious liberty. So I’m not in love with their headline. Put I’m being picky. As expected, many responders were not happy with my views …
Read MoreThe beginning of the end for the NAACP?
The NAACP says there is a correlation between gay rights activism and civil rights. The Reverend Keith Ratliff says they are wrong. Reverend Ratliff, pastor of the Maple Street Missionary Baptist Church in Des Moines, resigned his position as a national Board member of this venerable civil rights organization over the issue …
Read MoreCivil rights are not based on human desire
Gay marriage is all about civil rights. True of false?
Read MoreSteve Deace: Liberal spin on “rights” is wrong
The Iowa Senate won’t allow a vote on a marriage amendment. Why? Senate Democrats say they won’t let a majority determine someone elses’s rights. Here is radio host, Steve Deace’s response …
Read MoreThe Bible is a book of “hateful words”
A Quiner’s Diner reader takes exception to a recent post which defends traditional marriage. He characterizes Christianity as being a religion based on a book of “hateful words.”
Read MoreWhat’s wrong with gay marriage?
Perhaps that’s the wrong title for this reflection on this burning subject. A better title might be, “what’s right with gay marriage?” As one person stated: “I’m a Christian. I do believe that tradition and my religious beliefs say that marriage is something sanctified between a man and a woman”…
Read MoreA clear message from the Pope
QUINER’S DINER: Your Holiness, gay marriage is quickly being embraced by the Democratic Party as a civil rights issue. Is there anything wrong with same sex attractions?
Read MoreThe questions I would have liked asked at the last debate
By Tom Quiner I’m still chewing on the loaded questions thrown at the Republican candidates for President at last Saturday night’s debate. They dealt with gay marriage issues. This is certainly an important issue. But in this Obamanomics-sustained Great Recession, is this the issue, along with contraception, truly the main issues real people want to…
Read MoreWhat is marriage?
By Tom Quiner Marriage is … “a covenant or partnership of life between a man and woman, which is ordered to the well-being of the spouses and to the procreation and upbringing of children. When validly contracted between two baptized people, marriage is a sacrament.” The above citation is how the second edition of the…
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