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LifeSiteNews.com reported on May 3, 2010:
The leader of Minnesota’s Catholics, Rev. John Nienstedt, has called for an amendment to the Minnesota constitution defining marriage as the union of a man and a woman. The archbishop of Minneapolis and St. Paul recently penned a column in the Star Tribune saying that the legalization of same-sex “marriage” will have even more unintended consequences on marriage and society than the legalization of no-fault divorce, and will mean that the government no longer recognizes that the ideal situation is for a child to have a mother and a father.
"Why should Minnesotans care about passing a marriage amendment?” wrote Nienstedt. “Marriage matters to every Minnesotan, whether or not we choose to marry personally, because it is the natural way we bring together men and women to conceive and raise the next generation.”
Nienstedt said that although the idea of marriage as a “a lifelong, committed, life-giving union between one man and one woman” has been long-established, it has been severely challenged – and not solely through same-sex “marriage.”
The legalization of no-fault divorce ushered in enormous unintended consequences in society, with women unfairly forced to do solo-parenting, and fatherless children bearing the brunt of the burden, he said.
“Children suffer, but so does the whole society, when marriage fails in its irreplaceable task of bringing together mothers and fathers with their children,” he continued.
“We might learn caution from experience. Back in the early 1970s, the experts told us that no-fault divorce would liberate women from bad marriages without affecting anyone else. We now know that as many as one-third of women fall into poverty with their children as a result of divorce. Social science caught up late with the common-sense wisdom that children need a mom and a dad working together to protect them.”
Nienstedt said that same-sex “marriage” would bring “a whole new level of challenge and uncertainty” to the institution of marriage. It would transform the “core meaning of marriage” by reducing it to “simply a union of consenting parties.”
However, the happiness of adults is not why the state has an interest in promoting marriage, because the state is looking to provide for the common or public good, explained Nienstedt. “Marriage exists in civil law primarily in order to provide communal support for bringing mothers and fathers together to care for their children. Same-sex unions cannot serve this public purpose.”
“We all know that not all children live in the ideal situation. Many parents are doing a magnificent job working hard to raise children in less than ideal circumstances,” said Nienstedt. “Every son or daughter is a child of God who deserves our concern. But gay marriage would certainly be a declaration by the government that we have officially abandoned the ideal that children need both a mom and dad.”
He explained that the law would also teach children that “moms and dads are interchangeable and therefore unnecessary,” that marriage has nothing to do with bringing children into the world and raising them, and that the complementary influences of a mother and a father also do not matter.
Nienstedt argued that the decision of activist courts like that in Iowa that overturned state law protecting natural marriage, “clearly demonstrates that an amendment is needed,” in spite of Minnesota leaders saying there is no danger of same-sex “marriage” being introduced.
“The only way to secure the definition of marriage as a union of one man and one woman is to follow the lead of other states and put a simple definition of marriage in our state Constitution, beyond the reach of activist courts,” he said.
“A question as important as the future of this great, social institution called marriage should not be decided by a few, narrow elites, but by the people of Minnesota themselves. A marriage amendment is the only just and respectful resolution.”
"Man shall not condone evil or rationalize sin. Homosexuality is an abomination in the eyes of God and man! The Creator condemns those who do not repent of this sin." - Our Lady of the Roses, August 5, 1977
"Are you so blind that you do not recognize the acceleration of sin among you? Murders abound, thievery, all manner of carnage, destruction of young souls, abortion, homosexuality, condemned from the beginning of time by the Eternal Father. Yet sin has become a way of life. Sin is condoned now, even unto the highest judge of your land and your lands throughout the world. As you have sown so shall you reap. Sin is death, not only of the spirit, but of the body. Wars are a punishment for man's sin, his greed, his avarice." - Our Lady of the Roses, August 14, 1981
Our Lady of the Roses Bayside messages:
These prophecies came from Jesus, Mary, and the saints to Veronica Lueken at Bayside, NY, from 1968 to 1995.
SIN IS INSANITY
"I have told you, counseled you in the past, that sin is insanity. Your
world and its people are involved--they walk as on a treadmill, seeking power
and money and material goods and pleasure. And they go round and about, never
stopping as the world plunges faster to the abyss.” – Our Lady, August 4,
1979
FREE WILL
"I say unto you, as your God, I bring not your destruction. You will bring about
your own destruction, for I leave you, as your God, to the exercise of your free
will. In your free will, if you reject your God and the plan for man's
redemption as given from the beginning of time, I say unto you, you will destroy
yourselves.
"Sin is insanity; insanity shall be loosed upon your world. There will come
a time, if you continue on your present path, so vile and evil upon mankind that
those who are living will envy the dead.” – Jesus, May 18, 1977
THE GREAT FOUNDATION
"Pray constantly your Rosary, your beads of prayer to Heaven. Remain unified in
your family lives. The institution of your country--the great foundation is
based on family life. Destroy the family and you destroy your country. The
enemies--the enemy is already within your country. Watch and pray well, My
children." - Our Lady, June 18, 1980
READ YOUR BIBLES
"Your word of homosexuality can be explained by
the story of Sodom and Gomorrah. Read in your Bibles or consult your clergy.
Find yourselves, My children, a humble, pious clergy. Many have fallen away
from the Faith." Our Lady, October 6, 1992
PASTORS HELD RESPONSIBLE
"We hold the pastors of My Son's House, We hold
them as being responsible for the fall of the children. Be ye warned now, My
children, that woe to the man who has this responsibility upon his conscience
and his soul. Scandals have been brought into the lives of your children.
Perversion, homosexuality, immorality, perverted sex, My children-where shall
you stop but at the abyss!" Our Lady, December 7, 1977
AN ABOMINATION
"Man shall not condone evil or rationalize sin.
Homosexuality is an abomination in the eyes of God and man! The Creator condemns
those who do not repent of this sin." Our Lady, August 5, 1977
BLACK CLOUD OVER AMERICA
"In the days of Sodom, so too were men giving
themselves over to all the pleasures of the flesh: eating, drinking, marrying,
giving in marriage. All manner of sinful lusts are being committed. Men shameful
with men, women casting aside their role of motherhood and lusting after women.
As it was in the days of Sodom, so now is this black cloud over America."
Our Lady, July 14, 1979
SODOM: "WE DESTROYED IT"
"And the great issue now of homosexuality in your
country, that shall be on the balance that Michael holds. Unless this balance
is evened by removing this evil from your country and bringing in just laws to
prevent the spread of homosexuality, you cannot be saved; your country cannot be
saved. Because I repeat again, as I have repeated in the past: When a country
has given itself over to immorality and all pleasures of the flesh, and
abominations of the flesh, then that country will fall! If you do not believe
Me, My children, I say: You will read your history books, and you will find out
that there was a Sodom and Gomorrah. And what did We do to that abominable
city, Sodom? We destroyed it! And what did We do to Gomorrah? We destroyed
it! And We destroyed all who did not follow the plan for their redemption."
Jesus, November 1, 1985
SIN: FORERUNNER OF WAR
"For sin is always a forerunner for war, My
children: murders, persecutions, robberies, all manners of sins of the flesh,
homosexuality, lesbianism, perversion, sodomy. Sodom and Gomorrah fell for less
sins than you have committed now upon your earth. Noah took to the ark and the
world was in a better state spiritually than your world now; for you have
accepted a sophisticated manner of sin, based on man's reasoning and not God's
truth." Our Lady, October 2, 1979
ANY COUNTRY
"Any country that allows homosexuals to roam and
to seduce the young shall be destroyed." Our Lady, June 30, 1984
Directives from Heaven
D161 - The Great Apostasy PDF
D174 - Homosexuality, Part 2 PDF
D175 - Defilement of the Young PDF
D176 - Sodom and Gomorrah PDF
D177 - Seminaries PDF
Article:
Homosexuality a disorder:
"Homosexuality is not hardwired," concludes head of the Human Genome Project
http://www.tldm.org/News10/HomosexualityNotHardwired.htmExpert research finds homosexuality more dangerous than smoking
http://www.tldm.org/News10/HomosexualityMoreDangerousThanSmoking.htmWhat the Saints say about the sin of homosexuality
http://www.tldm.org/news7/homosexualitySaints.htm
Pope Benedict:
homosexuals destroy themselves
http://www.tldm.org/News9/PopeHomosexualsDestroyThemselves.htm
Pope Benedict
blasts 'dismal theories' on gays
http://www.tldm.org/News9/homosexualityPopeDismalTheories.htm
U.S. sexuality
survey shows homosexuals 107% more likely to engage in criminal activities
http://www.tldm.org/News8/homosexualityCriminalActivity.htm
Great Britain
study says 43% of gays, lesbians, and bisexuals have a mental disorder
http://www.tldm.org/news7/GayMentalDisorder.htm
Spanish Archbishop refers to homosexuality as an "epidemic" and
a "fount of psychological problems and painful frustrations"
http://www.tldm.org/News7/homosexualityArchbishopSebastian.htm
Canadian Bishop: The State must curtail homosexuality for the
common good
http://www.tldm.org/News7/homosexualityBishopHenry.htm
Homosexuality and
Hope: excerpts taken from a document by the Catholic Medical Association
http://www.tldm.org/news6/ssa.htm
Ghana bans homosexual
conference, says its "culture, morality and heritage totally abhor homosexual
and lesbian practices"
http://www.tldm.org/News9/homosexualityGhana.htm
Gay marriage:
Vatican: Gay marriage evil
http://www.tldm.org/News10/AbortionTerrorismWithAHumanFace.htm
John Paul
II calls gay marriage part of
"ideology of evil"
http://www.tldm.org/news7/homosexualMarriageIdeologyOfEvil.htm
Top Vatican
Cardinal: gay marriage is "a crime which represents the destruction of the
world"
http://www.tldm.org/News8/homosexualityCardinalTrujillo.htm
Canadian
Cardinal warns Senate of impending anti-Christian prosecution with gay
'marriage'
http://www.tldm.org/News8/homosexualityAnti-ChristianProsecution.htm
Maryland
Catholic bishops identify "coordinated effort" in homosexual war on the family
http://www.tldm.org/News8/HomosexualWarOnFamily.htm
America:
Slouching towards Gomorrah
http://www.tldm.org/news5/gomorrah.htm
John Paul II urges
authorities to stop gay marriages
http://www.tldm.org/News6/homosexuality10.htm
Reversible:
NARTH psychiatrist says study claiming biological basis for
homosexuality "absolute rubbish"
http://www.tldm.org/News9/homosexualityBiologicalBasisRubbish.htm
Ex-gays
protest APA claim that homosexuality is irreversible
http://www.tldm.org/News9/homosexualityNotIrreversible.htm
Psychiatrist who maintained that homosexuality is a curable
disorder dies at age 83
http://www.tldm.org/News8/homosexualitySocarides.htm
Study finds
new evidence that childhood family factors influence sexual orientation
http://www.tldm.org/News9/homosexualityChildhoodFactors.htm
"Homosexuality is not hardwired," concludes head of the Human
Genome Project
http://www.tldm.org/News10/HomosexualityNotHardwired.htm
AIDS:
Pope Benedict: Church has "the only failsafe way to prevent the spread of
HIV/AIDS"
http://www.tldm.org/News8/PopeBenedictAIDS.htm
Links:
Catholic Medical Association: Homosexuality and Hope
http://www.cathmed.org/publications/homosexuality.html
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