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Article: Sacraments are not negotiable: latest legal and liberal fashions are no excuse for destroying the church.(Roman Catholic Church)
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- Presbyterian Record
- Article date:
- October 1, 2005
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This summer NDP MPs Charlie Angus and Joe Comartin claimed to have been deeply hurt by the Roman Catholic Church. The first was told that he could not receive communion. The latter has been prevented from teaching marriage classes in his local church.
The reason is that both men actively supported and voted for the government's same-sex marriage legislation. One would have hoped they would have the courage of their convictions and realized they could not simultaneously hold two mutually contradictory views.
It really is quite extraordinary that politicians who want to make revolutionary changes to the nature of family and culture should then complain ...