As a question, it also requires a question mark.
It used to be the law to send children up chimneys and to work in factories, too. National Service was law for some time as well. Why aren't we doing those things anymore? You get three guesses...
And as others have pointed out, the RCC in particular has long since forfeited the right to prescribe to others how to behave; especially here in Britain since ol' Henry VIII told the Pope where to stick his crozier.
(May 13, 2012 at 7:37 pm)StatCrux Wrote: "Under UK law, the legal definition of marriage is the ''union of a man and a woman''. With same-sex partnerships the legal definition of marriage would not apply. The Civil Partnership Act was created as the solution whereby same-sex couples can become ''married'' and benefit from the legal rights that mixed-sex marriage affords." Contract Law UK
"The matrimonial covenant, by which a man and a woman establish between themselves a partnership of the whole of life, is by its nature ordered toward the good of the spouses and the procreation and education of offspring; this covenant between baptized persons has been raised by Christ the Lord to the dignity of a sacrament." Catechism of the Catholic Church.
It used to be the law to send children up chimneys and to work in factories, too. National Service was law for some time as well. Why aren't we doing those things anymore? You get three guesses...
And as others have pointed out, the RCC in particular has long since forfeited the right to prescribe to others how to behave; especially here in Britain since ol' Henry VIII told the Pope where to stick his crozier.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'