Bad romance: 10 surprising facts about the Irish and sex

I whole heartedly agree with you SingleDonald!

Very interesting! It really is sad how the Catholic Church was so dogmatic about sexual matters, when I was growing up. Happily, they don't push these matters today, even if they haven't officially repudiated them. We can't help noticing how confessional lines, at least here in America, are considerably shorter than when we were kids. The reason to me is obvious. Men don't see the need to run to confession, after doing such things as looking at Playboy, or fantasizing about a close encounter with Jennifer Aniston. The same, of course, applies to women looking at Playgirl, or engaging in fantasies over George Clooney! I wish that the Church would abandon its medieval concepts, over human sexuality, once and for all!

Well then how about parading about Dublin or anywhere else in Ireland with a sign saying that you believe homosexual an-l sex is normal and okay, and that Irish schoolkids should learn it?

Oh please, I would love to pass around pics of you expressing yourself in Ireland.

I hardly need to, olovely. Their falling birth rates scream that loudly enough.

IrishandProud I suggest you buy a soap box, to to Dublin and hold up a sign that reads: "The Irish aren't having proper sex, enough." Please please send us photographs as proof, too.

First of all, the homosexual lifestyle has been practiced since there have been people -- busting the myth that it's some sort of 'new, alternative lifestyle.' It's even OLDER than the xtian bible (how else could that book have referenced the lifestyle, but that it already existed, beforehand?). Of course, how long or often something is practiced does not make it right (crime has been around since the beginning, too); rightness or wrongness does not depend on such things. And secondly, if native Irish birth rates have dropped below replacement levels (as is the case in most if not all of Europe, nowadays) then the Irish aren't having proper sex, enough.

At 67, believe me there is no lingering effects from my Dublin "you will go to Hell if you do things like that!! If the "action" is between adults (of any or all lifestyles) Just keep your Donkey out of their business... That includes feeding off the lives of Iris and Peter R.

Oh dear is Ireland where it all started???.

Same-Sex Unions in Pre-Modern Europe, by John Boswell. Contrary to myth, Christianity's concept of marriage has not been set in stone since the days of Christ, but has evolved as a concept and as a ritual. Professor Boswell discovered that in addition to heterosexual marriage ceremonies in ancient church liturgical documents (and clearly separate from other types of non-marital blessings of adopted children or land) were ceremonies called, among other titles, the "Office of Same Sex Union" (10th and 11th century Greek) or the "Order for Uniting Two Men" (11th and 12th century). That certainly sounds like gay marriage.The ceremonies Boswell describes had all the contemporary symbols of a marriage. A community gathered in a church. A blessing of the couple before the altar. Their right hands joined as at heterosexual marriages. The participation of a priest. The taking of the Eucharist. A wedding banquet afterwards.

Same-sex Church marriages in early Ireland? This is doubtful because it would have clearly gone against numerous Scriptures in both the Old and New Testaments. Remember, our Irish people were the ones who brought the Scriptures, and the Latin and Greek classics, and education, back to mainland Europe in the early centuries, after the barbarian invasions destroyed books on the Continent. Would like to know what sources were used to support this statement re: same-sex Church marriages. Regards.

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