Oakland bishop calls for defeat of same-sex marriage

[Shana A]

Oakland bishop calls for defeat of same-sex marriage
Rebecca Rosen Lum
Contra Costa Times
Article Launched: 06/11/2008 05:46:36 AM PDT

http://www.contracostatimes.com/religion/ci_9545127

The leader of East Bay Catholics has gone beyond an accommodating message on same-sex marriages from bishops statewide to urge his parishioners to change the law.

"As faithful citizens, Catholics are called to bring our laws regarding marriage into conformity with what we know about the nature of marriage," said Bishop Allen Vigneron, head of the Oakland Diocese.

Failing to do so would make Catholic life countercultural, he wrote in a statement published in the June 9 Diocesan newspaper, the Catholic Voice. "No government has the power to change the order which God has inscribed in our nature," Vigneron says in the letter which was meant to be read in every parish in the diocese. It appears in this month's Catholic Voice and in some church bulletins.

[NicholeW.]

Bishop Allen Vigneron, head of the Oakland Diocese:

"No government has the power to change the order which God has inscribed in our nature."

So, he obviously 'gets' it. Wonder why he cannot see it?

Nichole

[JENNIFER]

I am no biblical scholar but even this lost soul knows that if you believe in the written word in the various texts among the faiths, God gave humans free will.  Why else did Adam screw things up in the Garden of Eden when he did?

This Bishop clearly happens to be under the thumb of Rome, Catholic doctrine having stated that transsexuals and gender reassignment is an affront to their beliefs. If memory serves me well, I am aware that the texts also state that man should obey the laws of our leaders who serve before God in his name.  God through Moses did not ban driving with excess alcohol in the blood did he? He allowed our leader to make law according to need.......FREE WILL ...if you please 

As for same sex marraige? We call it Civil Partnership here in UK, not marraige. Further, when post operative I choose to marry a man, it will be a marraige in the true meaning because I would be a legally recognised woman marrying a man in accordance with the Marraige Act.  Sadly, the Church of England are not obliged to perform the marraige ceremony if they are aware that one of the parties is transsexual, not easy is it?