CATHOLIC VIEWS ON GAY MARRIAGE – Catholic League

Contents:

• OPENLY GAY CATHOLIC PRIT DISCS POPE FRANCIS' APPEAL FOR LGBTQ PROTECTNS
• CATHOLIC DCE SAYS GAY AND TRANS PEOPLE N'T BE BAPTIZED OR RECEIVE COMMUNN
• I'M GAY, BUT I'M NOT SWCHG TO A CHURCH THAT SUPPORTS GAY MARRIAGE
• GAY UNSELOR'S FIRG BY INDIANAPOLIS CATHOLIC SCHOOL PERMTED BY FERAL APPEALS URT
• CATHOLIC VIEWS ON GAY MARRIAGE
• THE CATHOLIC CHURCH WILL BLS GAY PEOPLE AS LONG AS THEY DON’T GET MARRIED
• WHAT DO THE BIBLE SAY ABOUT GAY MARRIAGE?
• CATHOLICS AND GAY MARRIAGE?
• PRIT TELLS CATHOLICS HOW TO RPOND WHEN ASKED IF THEY SUPPORT GAY ‘MARRIAGE’

OPENLY GAY CATHOLIC PRIT DISCS POPE FRANCIS' APPEAL FOR LGBTQ PROTECTNS

Friday’s Supreme Court cisn to legalize gay marriage across the untry prents an tertg moment for Catholics the U. The church oppos gay marriage, and this likely won’t change even unr Pope Francis the Troublemaker.

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

But we also mt acknowledge that this moment is a great joy for many Catholics—gay and straight. I take my fah’s teachg on every issue—cludg gay marriage—serly, but I, too, n’t help but feel joy for my LGBT iends who celebrated Friday’s cisn. “No issue brgs out so much hatred om so many Catholics as homosexualy, ” Mart wrote a Facebook post Friday.

We n put to rt the great lie that everyone who oppos gay marriage is a bigot and that everyone who supports is a bad Catholic. No matter what one thks about gay marriage, we all n rema mted to strengtheng fay life agast some of s greatt threats: an enomy that kills, environmental exploatn, dictatorships of relativism, nsumerism, superficialy, and difference. Openly Gay Catholic Prit Discs Pope Francis' Appeal For LGBTQ Protectns Rachel Mart speaks wh Fr.

Openly Gay Catholic Prit Discs Pope Francis' Appeal For LGBTQ Protectns. He's an openly gay Catholic MASSINGALE: I was actually very exced and even jubilant, I have to say.

I'M GAY, BUT I'M NOT SWCHG TO A CHURCH THAT SUPPORTS GAY MARRIAGE

I was very, very pleased to hear the pope make this kd of endorsement of civil unns for gay and lbian persons.

And he says that gay and lbian persons have the right to a fay and a right to a fay life. And so this ll for the civil regnn and protectn of gay civil unns, 's really an affirmatn of the humany of gay and lbian persons - that he's sayg that bee gay and lbian persons are human begs, that society, that the state, that ernments have an obligatn and a duty to protect their basic human Do extendg the right to a civil unn and acknowledgg that LGBTQ people should be allowed to have a partner their life through a civil unn and a fay - do that mean children? Now, may seem to be a semantic difference, but I thk what the pope is sayg is that he is not opposed to the legal regnn of fay life and the right for gay and lbian persons to raise and have As a gay Catholic yourself, I mean, as a man of fah, as a Catholic, is somehow ls signifint, I would image, a civil unn than beg able to be married the church?

GAY UNSELOR'S FIRG BY INDIANAPOLIS CATHOLIC SCHOOL PERMTED BY FERAL APPEALS URT

I personally - and I know many others, gay and lbian persons and those who are alli and who love - would want the church to be able to one day regnize the lovg mments of LGBTQ persons the sacrament of marriage. We have to remember that homosexualy is still crimalized over 70 untri.

And what the pope is dog wh this kd of claratn - he's clearly puttg the Catholic Church on the si of agast the crimalizatn of behavr and favor of protectg the human digny of gay and lbian But help me unrstand this bee 's my unrstandg that the Catholic Church still nsirs homosexualy to be a s, not somethg that should be enuraged a liftyle. In this untry, there have been efforts to say that Catholics, Catholic stutns n't be volved or the adoptn - or allowg gay and lbian parents to adopt children. And I thk that this really giv a different lens for that kd of nversatn that go on the Catholic Church that we're basilly sayg that, no, gay and lbian persons n, you know, have a right to a fay.

CATHOLIC VIEWS ON GAY MARRIAGE

" 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. 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.

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

Wh so many optns for gay Christians, why stick wh the Catholic church? When I beme Catholic 1998, as a llege sophomore, I didn't know any other gay Christians.

I'd been raised a kd of potillist Reform Judaism, almost entirely protected om homophobia; when I realized I was gay was, if anythg, a relief. This sheltered upbrgg may help expla my sunny unrgraduate nfince that even though I knew of lerally nobody else who had ever tried to be both unashamedly gay and obediently Catholic, I was totally gog to do . I hope I've learned a few thgs about the dangers of sophomoric self-nfince: There are tim when my relatnship wh the Catholic Church feels a lot like Margaret Atwood's feroc ltle poem, You f to me like a hook to an eyea fish hook an open eyeAnd I've met many other gay or queer or same-sex-attracted Christians, all flavors of Christiany.

We disagree (sometim sharply) among ourselv on the bt rponse to the growg cultural acceptance and polil succs of gay marriage; but before polics and even before culture, our rponse mt be personal.

WHAT DO THE BIBLE SAY ABOUT GAY MARRIAGE?

A special report on how the stutn is changg Read more As Liza Mundy's article "The Gay Gui to Wedd Bliss" showed the terview wh Pastor Delman Coat of Mt. Gary Hall of the Natnal Cathedral, many Christian church are begng to tegrate gay marriage to their theology. Wh so many more optns for gay Christians, why stick wh the fishhook?

) But I do thk was okay to enter the Church whout beg able to jtify all of her teachgs on my the time of my baptism the church's teachg on homosexualy was one of the on I unrstood the least. I tried to expla somethg about how God uld give fertile heterosexual upl a baby if He wanted to, and my relative, unsurprisgly, asked why He uldn't give a gay uple a baby.

That's a quick and dirty summary, but seems to me more rponsive to the texts, more willg to fer to historil Christian wns, and more attuned to the importance and meang of our bodi than most of the fens I've read of Christian gay beg embedd Catholicism lors my readg of the Bible—that is actually what tradn is supposed to do—and shap my sense of which elements of Christian history are sential and which are wanrgs om the path. Bee I thk the Catholic Church is perfect when to gay people. I spend a lot of time the days workg wh people who are tryg to make the Church a home for gay people.

CATHOLICS AND GAY MARRIAGE?

I've wrten about possible approach to unselg Catholic schools; anti-bullyg efforts; my problems wh some of the language the Church about homosexualy; reprsive ias of genr which would leave no room for St. The gay, celibate Christians I know feel a siar rponsibily toward our church.

"Bee I thk gay people aren't lled to love. If I believed that Catholicism nmned gay people to a barren, lovels life, I would not be Catholic, full stop.

Renewg this Christian unrstandg of iendship would help to make the Church a place where gay people have more opportuni for voted, honored love—not Church needs to grow and change rponse to societal chang. We n do so much better servg the needs of gay/queer/same-sex-attracted Catholics, pecially the next generatn. But I thk gay Catholics n also offer a necsary wns to the broar society.

PRIT TELLS CATHOLICS HOW TO RPOND WHEN ASKED IF THEY SUPPORT GAY ‘MARRIAGE’

Moreover, celibate gay Christians n offer proof that iendship n be real love, and serv the same honor as any other form of lovgkdns, retakg and votn. The cultural chang which would better nourish celibate gay Christians, then, would be good for everyone else as well. Do God posively will that some people posss and act upon homosexual sir as their natural, rrectly orred sexualy?