Informatn for Gay & Lbian Catholics | Waterloo Catholic Fah Formatn | Waterloo, IA

Contents:

• CATHOLIC DCE SAYS GAY AND TRANS PEOPLE N'T BE BAPTIZED OR RECEIVE COMMUNN
• INFORMATN FOR GAY & LBIAN CATHOLICS
• THE CATHOLIC CHURCH WILL BLS GAY PEOPLE AS LONG AS THEY DON’T GET MARRIED
• WHAT CHURCH CAN GAY COUPL GET MARRIED IN?

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

" 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. " 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.

INFORMATN FOR GAY & LBIAN CATHOLICS

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. ’”Marianne Duddy-Burke, the executive director of DignyUSA, which advot for LGBTQ rights the Catholic Church, said the guidance is part of a larger trend of dc’ "makg statements that look like they're tryg to be helpful to gay, queer and transgenr people but that are really dog harm to the spirual, emotnal and physil health of our muny and to fai. " to a qutn om a reporter about gay prits.

Qutn:I am a homosexual who wish to obey the Church’s teachgs on homosexualy, but I am not sure what they are. I know that the Church teach homosexual acts are wrong, but teach that all sex outsi of marriage is wrong--a teachg which I support.

What if two homosexuals were married to each other? and allow homosexuals to marry? The reason homosexual acts are wrong is not simply that they take place outsi of marriage, but that they are ntrary to natural sign.

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

Even if two homosexuals were “married, ” they would still be havg unnatural sex.

This is a difficult teachg to hear for one stgglg wh homosexual sir, but is the tth. To get help, nsir ntactg Courage, a natnwi Catholic anizatn set up to help homosexuals lead chaste liv. Informatn for Gay & Lbian Catholics | Waterloo Catholic Fah Formatn | Waterloo, IA.

WHAT CHURCH CAN GAY COUPL GET MARRIED IN?

Gay or Lbian. In an historic cisn on Friday, June 6, the Supreme Court stck down gay marriage bans across the Uned Stat.

This is amazg news for gay people across the untry, whose right to get married was prevly geographilly hibed; prevly, gay upl uld only get married 37 stat. While there are no longer geographil boundari to same-sex marriage, there are still a few rtrictns on where same-sex upl n get who n relig spac n still refe to marry gay upl if is agast their church's beliefs. "In other words, while church every state are now legally allowed to perform gay marriag, they are not legally obligated to perform those marriag.

The Evangelil Lutheran Church of Ameri has a siar are many church that more universally accept gay marriage.