We have heard all these pseudo-religious platitudes countless times before. Father Martin Rhonheimer says heterosexual couples who marry “intentionally have engaged in a union ordered towards the task of the transmission of human life, accepting all the burdens and responsibilities of this task.”

Oh, please. (1) Couples do not need to marry to bear children, (2) the ability or even desire to bear children is not a prerequisite for obtaining a marriage license, and (3) Gay individuals and couples will continue to raise countless children to healthy, well-adjusted adulthood.

But Rhonheimer claims he wants to be diplomatic, saying he “does not exclude private law solutions … protecting same-sex couples’ civil rights and facilitating, for example, mutual care in case of illness and old age, or adaptations in the field of inheritance law.”

All of us in the LGBT community are well aware, through past experience, how vitriolically social conservative react to ANY mention of civil rights law for Gay individuals, let alone couples. And why is it that we would be expected to shell out literally THOUSANDS of dollars for “private law solutions” and legal help, when heterosexual couples get their legal benefits and protections bestowed on them by the government for FREE? How is is remotely constitutional under the 14th Amendment?

General Raymond Odierno
Chief of Staff, United States Army
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Lieutenant General Jeffrey Talley
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Mary Yong

1) It creates a mindset that the name on the paper is worthless, of no meaning.

2) It is a occult ritual to stomp / control over and to destroy the name ones name is sacred).

What Poole had his student do was a occult ritual.

Christians, if you are real Christians should be outraged.

I demand Poole be fired and wonder about whom wrote the book and the publishing company that allowed this garbage into our colleges.

It’s coming folks.

This is a precursor of things to come.

Stomp on Yeshua (Jesus) – and honor Muhammad, Allah and Krishna, the false prophets.

Poole and the whole administration of FAU should be fired.

This was like writing nigg** on a piece of paper and stomping on it.

America has truly embraced satanism. It is in our movies, books, even our sports “entertainment ceremonies”.

IF you are a real Christian you will rise up and let your voices be heard that this is not acceptable.

If you are a milk toast / pretend Christian you will just ignore this slap on the face of Yeshua and ignore prejudice against Christianity.

Notice Professor Poole did not have his students write Muhammad, Allah, Buddha or Krisha – Poole and his text book singled out Jesus.

Nobody should disrespect another’s religion as long as that religion is of love and getting along.

Yeshua spoke of love, not judging and keeping the Commandments of His Father.

FAU should be reprimanded. Their higher up administration should have reviewed the text book and Poole’s “exercises”.

We Christians, the real ones, are being discriminated against.

Our government and military are embracing satan.

Now it appears our colleges are like wise embracing satan.

This is not freedom of speech, it is discrimination of one religion, Christianity.

Gay people must not be protected from discrimination in the workplace.
Gay people must not be protected from discrimination in housing.
Gay people must not be protected from discrimination by businesses.
Gay people must not be included in existing hate crimes laws.
Gay people must not be allowed to teach in schools.
Gay people must not be allowed to serve in the military.
Gay people must not be allowed to adopt children.
And Gay couples must not be allowed civil unions, let alone marriage.

But remember, it’s only because we LOVE you!!!

Yeah, RIGHT.

It’s a privately run nursing home with a “no CPR” policy.

This is why you want more government and less for-profit business in medicine.

Money that’s been STOLEN FROM the taxpayers, etc., BELONGS TO the taxpayers, etc. – it doesn’t somehow become “federal funds”, revenue for the politicians, etc.

Various Famous Economists, such as Professor Laurence Kotlikoff of Boston University, claim that the so-called “national debt” is actually about $228 Trillion, & going up about $1 Trillion a month. There’s virtually Zero $ for anything whatsoever.

We have depended much on pushing forward arguments, and debates about it. There is no way we can negotiate with the devil an win. Our weapons of warfare are not carnal but mighty through God, pulling down stronghold, and every high things that exult themselves against God. That has proven to be more effective than any known human weapons. It works!

ANDREW CUOMO Gov. OF NY. CUOMO IS NOW PROMOTING LATE TERM ABORTION NO STRINGS ATTACHED WHATSOEVER!

STAND UP FOR WHAT YOU (THE CATHOLIC CHURCH) PROFESSES TO BELIEVE, SIR.

AS A NEW CATHOLIC; I AM SHOCKED THAT THE CHURCH APPARENTLY ALLOWS THESE KILLERS TO TAKE HOLY COMMUNION!

While Cardinal Dolan and Archpishop Lori have sounded the alarm on the immorality of keeping our old health insurance under the new system, Pope Benedict XVI has given us two very good options: (1) Collaborate with one of the three Protestant health-sharing minsitries, or (2) Form our own “parish-based minsitries.”

http://www.sosuchouki.blogspot.com/2013/02/i-will-not-leave-you-orphans-jn-1418.html

Charles E. Miller, BA in German Studies, MA in Religion

I am not sure that you wrote the question above; however, we would be cousins through King John of England since we both descend from him. As I have mentioned above, I am also related to the Tudors through Catherine Tudor of Berain, wife of Morris Wynne. My ancestor, George Wynns, settled in Virginia in the seventeenth century. Please do not let the different spellings of my great-grandmother Cowan’s maiden name fool you; it is the same family. I am sorry your grand-uncle was killed by Henry Tudor; however, that was politics in the Middle Ages. Now, however, government operates differently. We live in a more enlightened age. God bless you and your family. Charles

Charles E. MIller, BA Germanistik, MA Religion

Pretty soon every religious group in the country is going to want to have special exemptions.
Muslim women already want an exemption from having their photograph taken for a ID purposes.
Already a justice of the peace refused to marry an interracial couple because it was against his beliefs.
What next?
Are Quaker Pacifists going to want an exemption from paying taxes because some of the money goes to buy bombs and bullets
Are Catholic Employers going to be able to refuse to hire people who have been divorced.
Are Mormon employers going to have the right to deny employment to anyone who smokes or drinks?
Is a Evangelical Christian apartment owner going to have the right to refuse to rent to gay people?
Is a White Southern Christian college going to be allowed to refuse to admit black students or interracial couples?
Is a Jehovah Witness factory owner going to be allowed to fire people who take the day off to celebrate Christmas?

Religious people need to grow up!!! This is the United States. We have federal laws that supercede your religious beliefs.

Don’t get the big idea that the government is going to allow you to perform animal sacrifice or female circumcision, marry more than one woman at a time, give your 8 year old daughter away in an arranged marriage, or withhold medical care from your children just because of your kooky religion says it’s OK.

I commend you for changing the title of the story. His 5 year old brother can never be blamed. And for anyone who believes that his parents own any fault here…please hope that no one ever judges you for the multitude of times TODAY that you took your eye off your child with confidence. We will all keep a closer eye now while we Pray for the entire family!!!!

It was my privilege to participate in this March again this year.

I sincerely doubt it. And to suggest otherwise is simply another tiresome “slippery-slope” strategy to vilify law-abiding, taxpaying Gay individuals and couples. To equate love and commitment amongst compatible Gay couples with the deliberate sexual victimization of children is utter reprehensible.

Regardless of whether the sexual attraction to children is referred to as a ‘sexual orientation’, ‘disorder’ or ‘paraphilia’, the act will not be accepted for the simple reason that it can destroy the life of an innocent child. Homosexuality is no more comparable to pedophilia than heterosexuality. To compare pedophilia to the normal variations of human sexuality utterly diminishes the extent of trauma and pain involved in abuse. A pedophile’s right to have his attraction to children accepted or acknowledged will always be disregarded for the sake of the child’s interests. Psychiatric professional bodies have already made clear that a desire to have sex with another consenting adult, regardless of gender, is a healthy, normal and natural expression of human sexuality, whereas pedophilia is a mental disorder that involves adults fantasising about or indeed committing actual sexual abuse. In this instance, psychiatric bodies distinguish between healthy/harmless expressions of human sexuality, and sexual expression that harms others.

Accepting the empirical reality that, unfortunately, some adults will always be predisposed to pedophilia does not mean that the act of sexual abuse will be accepted. Even if a desire to have sex with children were to be termed ‘sexual orientation’, that would not normalise or dignify the act of rape.

But then you go on to comment: “I found this comment and this ‘expert’ opinion rather disturbing because pedophilia is acting as a child molester, at least if they act on their desires. While having an attraction for young kids is disturbing, acting on the desire or temptation is child molestation and makes that person a pedophile.”

In case English is your second language, I’ll reiterate: paedophilia is an attraction, not an action.

I’m not sure why you’ve added scare quotes to the word expert. Are you suggesting that ‘expertise’ is no substitute for your (God given?) wisdom, or simply that anybody who studies anything at all is worthy of nothing but ridicule?

I’m disturbed by your ‘Catholic’ lynch mob mentality. It seems irreconcilable with the Gospels.

David Morgan

And since I’m a Catholic Democrat, I have to say that you should be ashamed of yourself for using religion to push your political agenda.

You SHOULD be. But you won’t be.