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Originally posted by Overpaid Slacker
Nobody "takes away" from the church what constitues a Sacrament and it's wihtin nobody's (no secularbody's) power to define what one is, much less restore what they couldn't have taken in the first place.
If you can't (or refuse to) understand that, you skipped more Sunday school than I did.
JP
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Well, the idea of marriage as only a Sacred Sacrament from the Church has indeed been lost, and has been lost for decades. Civil marriages are not part of the Sacraments. Why does one need a marriage license from a civil authority to perform a Sacrament? I think it is you who can't understand the situation.
And if you think that most people take marriage as a Sacrament, you are really out to lunch. If they did, we would not have so many divorces. And if we try to return to the idea of marriage as a Sacrament, is that something only Christians can do, as the word Sacrament is commonly defined as purely a Christian rite?
I do think that if death benefits, hospital visitation rights, medical benefits were not tied to the term "marriage", we would be better off. As it is, two Catholic Sisters, nuns, living together for years could not legally visit each other in hospital as they are not "immediate family".
Sent from a remote site sitting next to Island911 with JP's scepter in hand.