Impotence Makes You Unmarriageable
For a long time, the easiest way to argue against the statement that gay men and women shouldn’t be able to get married because they could not conceive was an easy “Well, what about impotent men or infertile women? They can still get married!”
Well, I’m going to have to rethink my use of that retort now that a church in Italy told a man that he couldn’t have a church wedding because he is…wait for it… impotent.
Even though his fiancé knows that, a spokesman for Bishop Lorenzo Chiarinelli said that “No bishop, no priest can celebrate a wedding when he knows of admitted impotence as it is a motive for annulment.”
I’m sure telling an infertile woman that she can’t get married in a church isn’t that far off.
June 10th, 2008 at 11:44 pm
wow, the catholic church, as it exists as an institution, just keeps getting dumber.
June 11th, 2008 at 3:59 am
Hmm. I thought the impotence clause only applies if you find out about it after marriage… But then I think since birth control is outlawed we’re only supposed to have sex to conceive…