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Contents:
- COULD CANON LAW BE CHANGED TO PERM GAY MARRIAGE?
- THE GAY RIGHTS CANON AND THE RIGHT TO NONMARRIAGE
- GAY MARRIAGE
- GAY ‘MARRIED’ EX-PRIT SERV ON CANON LAW TRIBUNAL FOR DELAWARE DCE
COULD CANON LAW BE CHANGED TO PERM GAY MARRIAGE?
Many untri today have legalized gay marriage. Could such a marriage ever be possible the Catholic Church? * canon law and gay marriage *
The Vatin's msage ced Francis' own words om 2016, when he wrote, "there are absolutely no grounds for nsirg homosexual unns to be any way siar or even remotely analogo to God's plan for marriage and fay. Pope Francis has been viewed wh ut optimism by LGBTQ groups bee of remarks like his statement, wily published 2020, that homosexuals are "part of the fay" and that same-sex and other nontradnal upl need a "civil unn law.
A: It’s difficult to image that durg the s of preparatory work leadg to the promulgatn of the current Co of Canon Law 1983, and the Catechism of the Catholic Church 1992, any of the theologians and nonists workg on the projects ever dreamed that the qutn of homosexual “marriage” would even e up.
THE GAY RIGHTS CANON AND THE RIGHT TO NONMARRIAGE
* canon law and gay marriage *
Bee this ed to be a non-issue, there is no direct mentn whatsoever eher the or the techism of what the Church says about homosexuals gettg married.
GAY MARRIAGE
The road to full marriage equaly for same-sex upl the Uned Stat was paved wh setbacks and victori. The landmark 2015 Supreme Court se Obergefell v. Hodg ma gay marriage legal throughout the untry. * canon law and gay marriage *
It’s actually fairly easy to answer Miroslav’s qutn, by examg Catholic teachg on the sacrament of marriage and then applyg to the homosexual scenar he mentns.
GAY ‘MARRIED’ EX-PRIT SERV ON CANON LAW TRIBUNAL FOR DELAWARE DCE
No matter which way the US Supreme Court l the “gay marriage” s the ternatnal bate over the fn of marriage will ntue bee that bate is, at root, about matters beyond a civil urt’s petence, thgs like the nature of human begs and the fundamental good of society. Bee we Catholics are and… * canon law and gay marriage *
Siarly, the Church nnot “refe marriage” such a way that would now clu homosexuals livg together and engagg unnatural sexual activy—bee dog so would stroy the very ncept of what marriage is all about, a ncept which was given to by God. But this unfortunately leads to the next issue that Miroslav mentned: uld the ernment of a natn wh laws permtg gay marriage ever force prits to nduct Catholic weddgs for homosexuals?
Policians who are hostile to Catholic teachg uld perhaps try to argue that by refg to marry homosexuals, the Church is engagg discrimatn (ever a fashnable buzz-word). It’s impossible to predict the future, of urse, but if prits were told by civil thori that they had to celebrate homosexual weddg-ceremoni, ’s hard to image that the Catholic Church would willgly acquice! Some who support LGBT equaly, however, argue that the victori me at a great st: the gay rights non, is said, entrench the supremacy of marriage and the maral fay.
Keywords: due procs, equal protectn, Fourteenth Amendment, equaly, marriage, gay marriage, nonmarriage, sexual orientatn, discrimatn, nonmaral.