What Church Can Gay Coupl Get Married In? There Are Still Some Rtrictns In Place

Contents:

• IS THE CATHOLIC CHURCH ‘EVOLVG’ ON GAY MARRIAGE?
• CATHOLIC DCE SAYS GAY AND TRANS PEOPLE N'T BE BAPTIZED OR RECEIVE COMMUNN
• INFORMATN FOR GAY & LBIAN CATHOLICS
• CATHOLIC CHURCH RUL GAY MEN CAN GET MARRIED -- TO LBIANS
• THE CATHOLIC CHURCH WILL BLS GAY PEOPLE AS LONG AS THEY DON’T GET MARRIED
• HOW A MARRIED GAY CATHOLIC UPLE LIVE THEIR FAH
• WHAT CHURCH CAN GAY COUPL GET MARRIED IN?
• FIRG OF GAY CATHOLIC SCHOOL TEACHER ULD TT LATT SUPREME COURT LG

IS THE CATHOLIC CHURCH ‘EVOLVG’ ON GAY MARRIAGE?

Patrick Day Para Commtee’s cisn to allow a gay group to march the 2015 para unr their own banner.

CATHOLIC DCE SAYS GAY AND TRANS PEOPLE N'T BE BAPTIZED OR RECEIVE COMMUNN

This was a remarkable shift om one of Dolan’s precsors Cardal John O’Connor who 1993 clared that to allow a gay group to march the para would be a slanr to the Apostle’s Creed. This clos a remarkable summer which a number of high-rankg Catholic prelat have signaled that Pope Francis’s more open posture on gay issu has permeated through the Catholic world. And jt a few weeks ago, one of Pope Francis’s clost iends Brazilian Cardal Cláud Humm said an terview that he “didn’t know” whether J would oppose gay marriage.

INFORMATN FOR GAY & LBIAN CATHOLICS

All this begs the qutn: is the Catholic Church “evolvg” on gay marriage?

CATHOLIC CHURCH RUL GAY MEN CAN GET MARRIED -- TO LBIANS

Don’t expect Pope Francis to e out support of gay marriage anytime soon. As the archbishop of Buenos Air, he supported civil unns as an alternative to gay marriage durg 2010 natnal bate on the issue.

In July of last year, he famoly said, “[i]f someone is gay and he search for the Lord and has good will, who am I to judge? Sce the Congregatn for the Doctre of the Fah ma the raw claratn 1975 that “homosexual acts are trsilly disorred” the Vatin has ma abundantly clear where stood on homosexualy and issu surroundg , most notably same-sex marriage. In , they wre: “God do not love someone any ls simply bee he or she is homosexual.

THE CATHOLIC CHURCH WILL BLS GAY PEOPLE AS LONG AS THEY DON’T GET MARRIED

” It says Church misters mt “wele homosexual persons to the fah muny, and seek out those on the margs. Francis’s simple pastoral step isn’t breakg any new ground theologilly nor is tendg to change the Church’s polil stanc on gay marriage.

HOW A MARRIED GAY CATHOLIC UPLE LIVE THEIR FAH

" It lled on Catholics "to wele wh rpect and sensivy persons wh homosexual clatns.

" The Vatin also said that s refal to give relig approval to same-sex marriage do not preclu givg blsgs to homosexual people.

" 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.

WHAT CHURCH CAN GAY COUPL GET MARRIED IN?

" The Roman Catholic Church has long held that beg gay isn't a s but that beg a gay relatnship or havg gay sex is. They also n’t serve as wns at Catholic baptisms or, the guidance says, gay and transgenr people n participate such sacraments if they repent.

FIRG OF GAY CATHOLIC SCHOOL TEACHER ULD TT LATT SUPREME COURT LG

For gay, lbian, bisexual and queer people, that would mean endg same-sex relatnships, and for trans people, would mean livg as the sex they were assigned at birth, although the guidance says trans people who have unrgone "physil chang to the body" aren’t required to reverse, acrdance wh Catholic doctre, the guidance says children of same-sex married upl n be baptized if they are raised the Catholic fah and tght that same-sex marriage go agast the church's teachgs.