I found this article (http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/06/06/world/main1687068.shtml) on the CBS News website summarizing a document released by the Vatican in June 2006 declaring that "Family is under attack" due to gay marriage, birth control, and artificial insemination. I have never understood why the Vatican has such an obsession with sex (read the Vatican's Declaration on Sexual Ethics for a laugh) perhaps it is because no one in the administration is supposed to be having any sex that they feel the need to talk about it incessantly. I also have never understood how two men or two women being happy together can represent such a threat to the Vatican. Either way, no pope or cardinal has any right to declare that these are the reasons that the traditional family is being "destroyed". In the New Testament, Jesus takes full responsibility for this (capitalized words are how they are found in the text):
"Do not think that I came to bring peace on earth; I did not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I came to SET A MAN AGAINST HIS FATHER, AND A DAUGHTER AGAINST HER MOTHER, AND A DAUGHTER-IN-LAW AGAINST HER MOTHER-IN-LAW; and A MAN'S ENEMIES WILL BE THE MEMBERS OF HIS HOUSEHOLD. He who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me; and he who loves son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me." (Matthew 10:34-37)
What traditional family is the Pontifical Council for the Family discussing then? How can they argue that the modern world is destroying the family, when their supposed leader claims that to love him or god requires sacrificing the family?
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