Tuesday, May 17, 2005

We may not like sex, but you better have an erection

Of all the Roman Catholic follies I have seen lately, this one takes the cake. But not the wedding cake. A Brazilian paraplegic man was denied the sacrament of marriage in the Catholic Church because his disability had caused erectile dysfunction.

Last night, the Sundance Channel showed Forbidden Wedding, a documentary by Flavia Fontes, a Brazilian filmmaker who lives in New York. The man whose wedding was forbidden wrote to Pope John Paul II but never got a reply.

2 Comments:

You are shitting me about this, right? If the concern is that he cannot procreate without assistance, then why doesn't the Catholic Church force annulments on all married Catholics who have to resort to assisted reproduction or adoption becuase they too are incapable of procreating? Will theyt deny the sacrament of marriage to a woman who had to have a hysterectomy or a man who had an orchidectomy for medical reasons prior to marriage?

By Blogger Ol Cranky, at 8:46 PM  

Beats me. I stopped trying to understand the rules of the Catholic church years ago.

By Blogger Diane, at 9:48 PM  

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