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Utah Lawmaker Files Bill To Officially Refer To Gay Marriages As 'Pairages'

Utah Lawmaker Files Bill To Officially Refer To Gay Marriages As 'Pairages'

PowellIn the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision not to hear the 7 petitions it was considering on the question of same-sex marriage, effectively overturning bans on same-sex marriage in 5 states including Utah, a Utah lawmaker has introduced a bill that would officially refer to marriages between same-sex couples as “pairages.” The New York Times reports:

Just hours after a curt order from the United States Supreme Court on Monday opened the door to same-sex marriages in 11 states, State Representative Kraig Powell, a Republican opponent of same-sex marriage, opened a bill file in the Utah legislature to revise marriage statutes. He suggested rewriting the law to refer to same-sex marriages as “pairages” — an idea that one openly gay Utah lawmaker, State Senator Jim Dabakis, dismissed as so discriminatory that it represented “apartheid marriage.”

But Mr. Powell said the legislature might need to change its laws to reflect what he called the innate differences between a straight couple who are both the biological parents of a child and a same-sex couples who are not. And he said that even the heading that groups the state marriage laws — “Husband and Wife” — would now need rethinking.

“It’s going to start from the very title page,” Mr. Powell said. “If anyone thinks that’s just a technical process, changing wording here and there, they’re mistaken.” He added: “The differences between a same-sex relationship and an opposite-sex relationship are large enough that maybe we ought to recognize the difference between them.”

You’ll recall that Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes promised to uphold the 10th Circuit Court’s ruling after the Supreme Court decided not to weigh in on the challenge to Utah’s marriage ban. Said Reyes on Monday, “We are a state and a people who believe in upholding the law of the land and that has been determined for us today in a way that may be not satisfactory for some, but it is the law of the land.” 

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As PrEP Becomes More Available, Couples With One Poz Partner Consider Treatment

As PrEP Becomes More Available, Couples With One Poz Partner Consider Treatment

Serodiscordant relationships, in which one partner is negative and the other is positive, seem like an ideal situation to use PrEP, but many couples are forgoing the treatment. Why?

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Daniel Reynolds

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PHOTOS: The Boys Of Summer Are Still With Us

PHOTOS: The Boys Of Summer Are Still With Us

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We hate it when summer slips between our fingers as much as you do. However, we have a few models from underwear brand Diëtz that can help us reminisce on those hot glory. From hanging by the pool to lounging after a long day of work, these boys took advantage of the long summer days and loved every second of it, knowing we we’re enjoying them just as much. But once summer is over, hopefully the models will stick around and the boys of summer are not gone. Strisce-boxer-underwear Elegance-sunga-gray-swimsuit Sunga-white-swimsuit-black-white-1

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Pope Francis Gets A Lecture From A Devout Married Couple About Welcoming Gays In The Church

Pope Francis Gets A Lecture From A Devout Married Couple About Welcoming Gays In The Church

Pope-Francis-waves-to-cro-011-360x216The Vatican’s synod on family is underway, and it’s not exactly going as planned. In a surprise that clearly discomforted a number of bishops, an Australian couple hand-chosen to talk to the bishops about the importance of marriage gave an impromptu lecture about the importance of loving gay people–and about sex.

Ron and Mavis Pirola, an Australian couple, have been married for 55 years. They have four children and eight grandchildren and are practicing Catholics. In short, everything the Vatican would like to tout as the ideal couple. So no doubt, the couple’s statement at the synod was about as welcome as a, well, a gay couple.

“Friends of ours were planning their Christmas family gathering when their gay son said he wanted to bring his partner home too,” the Pirolas recounted to the 200 assembled bishops (and one nun). “They fully believed in the Church’s teachings and they knew their grandchildren would see them welcome the son and his partner into the family. Their response could be summed up in three words, ‘He’s our son’.”

Not content to stop there, the Pirolas then told the bishops that they should follow that example: “What a model of evangelization for parishes as they respond to similar situations in their neighborhood! It is a practical example of what the Instrumentum Laboris [the Synod’s working document] says concerning the Church’s teaching role and its main mission to let the world know of God’s love.”

But that wasn’t all. The Pirolas also spoke eloquently about the joy of sex, which had the group of (presumably) celibate clerics squirming. “Gradually we came to see that the only feature that distinguishes our sacramental relationship from that of any other good Christ-centred relationship is sexual intimacy, and that marriage is a sexual sacrament with its fullest expression in sexual intercourse,” the couple said.

As for Church teaching on sexual matters, the Pirolas politely described it as “from another planet.”

The bishops somehow mustered a round of applause for the Pirolas, though perhaps it was an attempt to get them to shut up. What the episode proved, however, is that the Vatican is out of touch with many of its most faithful members. The question is, will it deign to do anything about it?

JohnGallagher

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