Comments on: Waterloo Record Article http://www.anglicanessentials.ca/wordpress/index.php/2008/05/24/waterloo-record-article/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:46:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: John Kivell http://www.anglicanessentials.ca/wordpress/index.php/2008/05/24/waterloo-record-article/comment-page-1/#comment-24726 John Kivell Sat, 24 May 2008 20:16:48 +0000 http://www.anglicanessentials.ca/wordpress/index.php/2008/05/24/waterloo-record-article/#comment-24726 "...to bless the duly solemnized and registered civil marriages between same-gender couples, where at least one party is baptized . . . ." I really wonder why they are so concerned with one partner being baptized. What is this, some kind of rule or something? Rules are unfair and discriminatory and hurtful, aren't they? Besides, <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=James%202:%2010;&version=31;" rel="nofollow">James 2:10</a> says that if one breaks just one part of the law, one is guilty of breaking it all, so what's the difference. But... Oh, I forgot... that's in the Bible and we don't really pay much attention to that any more, do we? “…to bless the duly solemnized and registered civil marriages between same-gender couples, where at least one party is baptized . . . .”
I really wonder why they are so concerned with one partner being baptized. What is this, some kind of rule or something? Rules are unfair and discriminatory and hurtful, aren’t they?

Besides, James 2:10 says that if one breaks just one part of the law, one is guilty of breaking it all, so what’s the difference. But… Oh, I forgot… that’s in the Bible and we don’t really pay much attention to that any more, do we?

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