Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Infertile marriage

Uh, Catholic Church? When advocates for marriage equality pointed out how stupid the "but gays can't have children" argument was on the grounds that you regularly marry heterosexual couples who can't have children (from impotent men to post-menopausal women) - we didn't mean for you to start discriminating against those people too!
An Italian bishop has reportedly told a young paraplegic he cannot have a church wedding because he is impotent, despite his fiancee being aware of the problem.

Salvatore de Ciuco, spokesman for Bishop Lorenzo Chiarinelli of Viterbo in central Italy, told SkyTG24 television: "No bishop, no priest can celebrate a wedding when he knows of admitted impotence as it is a motive for annulment" of the marriage.

We were suggesting consistency might be good, sure, but we were assuming you'd move in the compassionate, just direction to achieve it - not descend even further backwards into ludicrous dickheaditry.

Bravo on surprising us yet again.
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