May Catholics Attend a “Gay Weddg” for Pastoral Reasons? – Padre Peregro

Contents:

• CAN I ATTEND A GAY WEDDG?
• WHAT DO THE BIBLE SAY ABOUT A CHRISTIAN ATTENDG A GAY WEDDG?
• MAY CATHOLICS ATTEND A “GAY WEDDG” FOR PASTORAL REASONS?
• MY CATHOLIC KID IS GAY! NOW WHAT??
• MY ANSWERS TO QUTNS ABOUT GAY MARRIAGE

CAN I ATTEND A GAY WEDDG?

Scripture and the Church’s magisterium otherwise teach that homosexual sex—whether between two men or two women—is an trsic moral evil, let alone attemptg to publicly sanctn such a relatnship. And the Church distguish between same-sex attractn (SSA) and homosexual acts (see CCC 2357-59). The obv lack of bodily plementary illtrat that one need not voke God to make a pellg argument agast homosexual sex.

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. Homosexual sir, however, are not themselv sful. People tempted by homosexual sir, like people tempted by improper heterosexual sir, are not sng until they act upon those sir some manner.

WHAT DO THE BIBLE SAY ABOUT A CHRISTIAN ATTENDG A GAY WEDDG?

The rejectn of homosexual behavr that is found the Old Ttament is well known. Durg the night, the men of Sodom mand that Lot hand over his guts for homosexual terurse. 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.

But today, certa homosexual activists promote the ia that the s of Sodom was merely a lack of hospaly. 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. 16:50), which uld refer to homosexual and heterosexual acts of s.

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. But the Sodom cint is not the only time the Old Ttament als wh homosexualy. 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.

MAY CATHOLICS ATTEND A “GAY WEDDG” FOR PASTORAL REASONS?

Confirmg this fact is the New Ttament’s forceful rejectn of homosexual behavr as well.

In Romans 1, Pl attribut the homosexual sir of some to a refal to acknowledge and worship God. 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. All of Scripture teach the unacceptabily of homosexual behavr. The same reasong appli to the se of homosexual behavr.

MY CATHOLIC KID IS GAY! NOW WHAT??

Th, people have the rrpondg tun ncerng homosexualy that they do about btialy—that is wrong bee is unnatural. 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. Homosexual activists often jtify homosexualy by claimg that ten percent of the populatn is homosexual, meang that is a mon and th acceptable behavr.

MY ANSWERS TO QUTNS ABOUT GAY MARRIAGE

But not all mon behavrs are acceptable, and even if ten percent of the populatn were born homosexual, this would prove nothg. 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.