More than 100 Roman Catholic parish Germany held servic to bls gay upl, fiance of the Vatin’s refal to regnize same-sex unns.
Contents:
- GERMAN CATHOLIC PRITS DEFY ROME TO OFFER BLSGS TO GAY COUPL
- GERMAN CATHOLIC BISHOPS BACK BLSG OF GAY RELATNSHIPS, DEFYG POPE FRANCIS
- GERMAN BISHOPS GRAPPLE WH BLSGS FOR GAY MARRIAGE
GERMAN CATHOLIC PRITS DEFY ROME TO OFFER BLSGS TO GAY COUPL
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Gregor Podschun, the print of the League of German Catholic Youth (BDKJ), an official Church group that supports women’s ordatn, gay marriage, and abortn accs, said that blsgs of same-sex unns were “a mimum” and that “we need [sacramental] marriage for everyone. At the ncln of a nsultatn they sponsored on human sexualy, Germany’s bishops issued a statement which they affirmed homosexualy as a “normal” part of human velopment, and they labeled church teachg agast same-genr sexual activy a “hot topic”.
In a ncludg statement, the Commissn summarized the nsultatn’s discsn of homosexualy:.
GERMAN CATHOLIC BISHOPS BACK BLSG OF GAY RELATNSHIPS, DEFYG POPE FRANCIS
“[T]here was agreement that the sexual preference of humans is exprsed durg puberty and assum a heterosexual or homosexual orientatn.
GERMAN BISHOPS GRAPPLE WH BLSGS FOR GAY MARRIAGE
In the Church’s thkg, this means that any form of discrimatn agast homosexuals mt be rejected, as has long been mand by the Magisterium, and is also explicly emphasized by Pope Francis the Post-Synodal letter Amoris laetia.
However, the qutn of whether the magisterial ban on practiced homosexualy is still timely has been a hot topic, jt like the qutn of the legimacy of g artificial ntraceptiv marriage and unmarried upl.