Pope Francis’ exprsn of openns to the ia of laws regnizg civil unns, cludg for gay upl, to protect their rights do not change church teachg on marriage.
Contents:
- GAY MARRIAGE: THEOLOGIL AND MORAL ARGUMENTS
- HOW THE SUPREME COURT’S CISN FOR GAY MARRIAGE ULD AFFECT RELIG STUTNS
- CATHOLIC CHURCH ‘WILL PAY PRICE’ FOR STANCE ON GAY MARRIAGE
- POPE SAYS CHURCH IS ‘OBSSED’ WH GAYS, ABORTN AND BIRTH CONTROL
GAY MARRIAGE: THEOLOGIL AND MORAL ARGUMENTS
When to gays and lbians, the Gospel valu of love, mercy and passn are the buildg blocks of all church teachg. * catholic church stance on gay marriage *
(CNS photo/Pl Harg)Sce Buildg a Bridge, a book on misterg to lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr Catholics, was published, I have been asked—at Catholic parish, retreat centers, lleg and universi and nferenc—a few qutns that recur over and over. Buildg a Bridge tentnally steered clear of issu of sexual moraly, sce I hoped to foster dialogue by focg on areas of possible monaly; and the church hierarchy and the majory of lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr Catholics rema far apart on the issu.
As an asi, sce the Catechism of the Catholic Church, a pendium of church teachg on var topics, do not addrs bisexual or transgenr persons but rather “homosexual persons, ” I’ll refer here to gay and lbian people to be more teachg at the most basic level is ntaed the Gospels and, even more basilly, the revelatn of the Father’s love J Christ. In fact, gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr Catholics are probably the most margalized group the church today, and so I believe that Christ lov them wh a special to gays and lbians, then, the Gospel valu of love, mercy and passn are the buildg blocks of all church that end, ’s important to state that the ey of the church simply beg gay or lbian is not a s—ntrary to wispread belief, even among ted Catholics.
HOW THE SUPREME COURT’S CISN FOR GAY MARRIAGE ULD AFFECT RELIG STUTNS
* catholic church stance on gay marriage *
As any reputable psychologist or psychiatrists will agree, people do not choose to be born wh any particular sexual when most people ask qutns about “church teachg” they are referrg not to this qutn, but to rtrictns on homosexual, or same-sex, activy as well as the prohibn on same-sex marriage.
CATHOLIC CHURCH ‘WILL PAY PRICE’ FOR STANCE ON GAY MARRIAGE
ROME (AP) — Pope Francis beme the first pontiff to endorse same-sex civil unns ments for a documentary that premiered Wednday, sparkg cheers om gay Catholics and mands for clarifitn om nservativ, given the Vatin’s official teachg on the issue. * catholic church stance on gay marriage *
Consequent to that, the homosexual orientatn self is viewed as an “objective disorr” sce n lead to “disorred” we need to make clear that the phrase “objective disorr” do not refer to the person himself or herself but to the orientatn.
)The Catechism of the Catholic Church also stat that gays and lbians n and should approach “Christian perfectn” through chasty, wh such supports as “the virtu of self-mastery that teach them ner eedom, at tim by the support of disterted iendship, by prayer and sacramental grace.
POPE SAYS CHURCH IS ‘OBSSED’ WH GAYS, ABORTN AND BIRTH CONTROL
Perhaps mdful of the specialized philosophil and theologil language, the church teach that “every sign of unjt discrimatn” agast gays and lbians (aga, here “homosexual persons”) mt be avoid, and gays and lbians mt be treated wh the virtu of “rpect, passn and sensivy.