About 150 Italian gays monstrated the Vatin on Saturday agast Pope Benedict's opposn to gay marriage, on the anniversary of the prott suici of a gay man St Peter's Square ne years ago.
Contents:
- VATIN BARS GAY MARRIAGE BLSG, SAYS GOD ‘CAN’T BLS S’
- THE VATIN ON GAY MARRIAGE
- VATIN BARS GAY UNN BLSG, SAYS GOD ‘N’T BLS S’
- ITALIAN GAYS PROTT POPE'S STANCE ON MARRIAGE
- LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
VATIN BARS GAY MARRIAGE BLSG, SAYS GOD ‘CAN’T BLS S’
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" 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 ON GAY MARRIAGE
* vatican against 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. The Vatin’s orthodoxy office, the Congregatn for the Doctre of the Fah, issued a formal rponse Monday to a qutn about whether Catholic clergy have the thory to bls gay unns.
VATIN BARS GAY UNN BLSG, SAYS GOD ‘N’T BLS S’
The Vatin lnch global mpaign agast same-sex marriage, prsur Catholic policians to oppose legalizg gay unns. * vatican against gay marriage *
The note distguished between the church’s welg and blsg of gay people, which upheld, but not their unns. The note immediately disheartened advot for LGBT Catholics and threw a wrench the bate wh the German church, which has been at the foreont of openg discsn on hot-button issu such the church’s teachg on homosexualy.
Francis DeBernardo, executive director of New Ways Mistry, which advot for greater acceptance of gays the church, predicted the Vatin posn will be ignored, cludg by some Catholic clergy. The Vatin holds that gay people mt be treated wh digny and rpect, but that gay sex is “trsilly disorred. Sce gay unns aren’t tend to be part of that plan, they n’t be blsed by the church, the document said.
ITALIAN GAYS PROTT POPE'S STANCE ON MARRIAGE
Hoe legislatn difyg protectns for gay marriage passed spe the fact that a big majory of the Hoe Republin uc opposed . * vatican against gay marriage *
Francis has endorsed providg gay upl wh legal protectns same-sex unns, but that was reference to the civil sphere, not wh the church. At the time, Argenta’s lawmakers were nsirg approvg gay marriage, which he and the Catholic Church opposed.
Then-Cardal Je Mar Bergogl stead supported providg legal protectns for gays stable unns through a so-lled “law of civil habatn. ” Speakg of fai wh gay children, he said: “You n’t kick someone out of a fay, nor make their life miserable for this. In the new document and an acpanyg unsigned article, the Vatin said qutns had been raised about whether the church should bls same-sex unns a sacramental way recent years, and after Francis had sisted on the need to better wele and acpany gays the church.
The German church has been at the foreont of phg the bate on celibacy, ntraceptn and the church’s outreach to gay Catholics, prsured by a powerful lay Catholic group mandg change.
LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
The Vatin said the pope’s statements favor of civil unns for gay upl did not change church doctre. * vatican against gay marriage *
In the article, the Vatin strsed the “fundamental and cisive distctn” between gay dividuals and gay unns, notg that “the negative judgment on the blsg of unns of persons of the same sex do not imply a judgment on persons. In 2003, the same Vatin office issued a siar cree sayg that the church’s rpect for gay people “nnot lead any way to approval of homosexual behavr or to legal regnn of homosexual unns.
Pope Francis’s mixed msaggPope Francis’s opns on gay marriage have garnered signifint attentn sce his 2013 electn. Shortly after assumg the papacy, Francis rpond to qutns on the prence of a ‘gay lobby’ the Vatin wh: “If a person is gay and seeks God and has good will, who am I to judge? ”The Vatin’s orthodoxy office, the Congregatn for the Doctre of the Fah, issued a formal rponse to a qutn about whether Catholic clergy have the thory to bls gay unns.