Catholics' views of gay marriage around the world | Pew Rearch Center

Contents:

• HERE'S WHY CHURCH TEACHG ON 'GAY MARRIAGE' DID NOT CHANGE TODAY
• GAY MARRIAGE: THEOLOGIL AND MORAL ARGUMENTS
• COURT SIS WH CATHOLIC SCHOOL THAT LET EMPLOYEE GO OVER HER GAY MARRIAGE
• HAS THE CATHOLIC CHURCH CHANGED ITS TEACHG ON GAY MARRIAGE?
• LIBERAL RDAL LLS FOR REVISED CATHOLIC TEACHG ON GAYS

HERE'S WHY CHURCH TEACHG ON 'GAY MARRIAGE' DID NOT CHANGE TODAY

Pope Francis ma news recently by voicg his support for same-sex civil unns – legal arrangements that give gay and lbian upl many of the same rights as married oppose-sex upl. The statement stck many observers as a shift for the Vatin – which 2003 me out agast any “legal regnn of homosexual unns” – even as Francis did not change his long-standg opposn to gay marriage. Around the world, Catholics vary their support for same-sex marriage and their acceptance of homosexualy general, acrdg to Pew Rearch Center surveys nducted recent years.

In the wake of Pope Francis’ recent ment about same-sex civil unns, Pew Rearch Center nducted this analysis to better unrstand what Catholics around the world thk about legal regnn for same-sex upl and homosexualy general. The term “homosexualy, ” while sometim nsired anachronistic the current era, is the most applible and easily translatable term to e when askg this qutn across societi and languag and has been ed other cross-natnal studi, cludg the World Valu Survey.

In Swzerland and Italy – which allow civil unns but not marriage for gay upl – 76% and 57% of Catholics, rpectively, said 2017 that they support gay marriage. Other untri around the world where most Catholics said society should be acceptg of homosexualy clud Spa (91%), Atralia (81%), the Philipp (80%) and South Ai (62%). In Eastern Europe, acceptance was weaker, wh roughly half or fewer of Catholics sayg that homosexualy should be accepted by society Hungary, the Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia and Lhuania.

GAY MARRIAGE: THEOLOGIL AND MORAL ARGUMENTS

In some of the other surveyed untri, cludg Ai and the Middle East, large majori of Catholics said homosexualy should not be accepted by society. In Argenta, Brazil, Germany, Mexi and the Philipp, Catholics are somewhat more likely than non-Catholics to say that homosexualy should be accepted by society. The Catholic Church teach that “homosexual acts are trsilly disorred” and lls on gay people to practice “chasty, ” though also lls on Catholics to treat gay men and women wh “rpect, passn and sensivy.

COURT SIS WH CATHOLIC SCHOOL THAT LET EMPLOYEE GO OVER HER GAY MARRIAGE

However, to receive this gift, we mt reject s, cludg homosexual behavr—that is, acts tend to aroe or stimulate a sexual rponse regardg a person of the same sex. People tempted by homosexual sir, like people tempted by improper heterosexual sir, are not sng until they act upon those sir some manner. Throughout history, Jewish and Christian scholars have regnized that one of the chief ss volved God’s stctn of Sodom was s people’s homosexual behavr.

Although hospaly is a s, is clearly the homosexual behavr of the Sodom that is sgled out for special cricism the acunt of their cy’s stctn. Lot even offered his two virg dghters place of his guts, but the men of Sodom rejected the offer, preferrg homosexual sex over heterosexual sex (Gen.

To disunt this, some homosexual activists have argued that moral imperativ om the Old Ttament n be dismissed sce there were certa ceremonial requirements at the time—such as not eatg pork, or circumcisg male babi—that are no longer bdg. Elsewhere Pl aga warns that homosexual behavr is one of the ss that will prive one of heaven: “Do you not know that the wicked will not her the kgdom of God? Do not be ceived: Neher the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostut nor homosexual offenrs nor thiev nor the greedy nor dnkards nor slanrers nor swdlers will her the kgdom of God” (1 Cor.

HAS THE CATHOLIC CHURCH CHANGED ITS TEACHG ON GAY MARRIAGE?

Many homosexuals argue that they have not chosen their ndn, but that they were born that way, makg homosexual behavr natural for them. Jt as one n acquire alholic sir (by repeatedly beg toxited) whout nscly choosg them, so one may acquire homosexual sir (by engagg homosexual fantasi or behavr) whout nscly choosg them.

Even if there is a geic predisposn toward homosexualy (and studi on this pot are nclive), the behavr remas unnatural bee homosexualy is still not part of the natural sign of humany.

LIBERAL RDAL LLS FOR REVISED CATHOLIC TEACHG ON GAYS

Homosexual activists often jtify homosexualy by claimg that ten percent of the populatn is homosexual, meang that is a mon and th acceptable behavr.

If those sir manift themselv a homosexual fashn ten percent of the populatn, all that do is give rmatn about the mographics of origal s. Furthermore, the ten percent figure clus people who are not exclively homosexual but who only engaged  some homosexual behavr for a perd of time and then stopped—people who had gone through a fully or partially homosexual “phase” but who were not long-term homosexuals. Those opposed to homosexual behavr are often charged wh “homophobia”—that they hold the posn they do bee they are “aaid” of homosexuals.

Sometim the charge is even ma that the same people are perhaps homosexuals themselv and are overpensatg to hi this fact, even om themselv, by nmng other homosexuals. The morn arguments favor of homosexualy have th been sufficient to overe the evince that homosexual behavr is agast dive and natural law, as the Bible and the Church, as well as the wir circle of Jewish and Christian (not to mentn Mlim) wrers, have always held.