If Pro-Gay Marriage You cannot be Catholic
Posted: Wed Feb 17, 2010 9:08 pm
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Politicians who support gay marriage are not Catholic, says cardinal
By Carol Glatz
Posted: 2/17/2010
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Public officials who openly support same-sex marriage cannot consider themselves to be Catholic, said an Italian cardinal.
"It's impossible to consider oneself a Catholic if that person in one way or another recognizes same-sex marriage as a right," said Cardinal Carlo Caffarra of Bologna.
The Vatican newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano, reprinted a portion of a doctrinal note the cardinal released Feb. 14 concerning "Marriage and Homosexual Unions." The note, which appeared in full on the archdiocese's Web site, was aimed at helping enlighten Catholics in public office so that "they would not make choices that would publicly contradict their affiliation with the church," he wrote.
Catholic politicians must not only promote the common good; they also "have a serious duty to make sure their beliefs, thoughts and proposals concerning the common good are consistent," he wrote.
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(...all tolerance is not lost on them)
"However, for the church, gay marriage is not part of an individual's rights," he told Catholic News Service Feb. 16.
Wanting to put a homosexual union on par with a marriage between a man and a woman "is unacceptable," he said.
However, he said, supporting gay marriage laws would not incur excommunication since that sanction is reserved to extremely serious crimes like abortion or abuse of the sacraments."
Link is here.
(someone correct me if I'm mistaken but I thought Catholics were the leading group practicing homosexual unions. I did note that some the young boys who were "unionized" were maybe not very committed.)
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Politicians who support gay marriage are not Catholic, says cardinal
By Carol Glatz
Posted: 2/17/2010
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Public officials who openly support same-sex marriage cannot consider themselves to be Catholic, said an Italian cardinal.
"It's impossible to consider oneself a Catholic if that person in one way or another recognizes same-sex marriage as a right," said Cardinal Carlo Caffarra of Bologna.
The Vatican newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano, reprinted a portion of a doctrinal note the cardinal released Feb. 14 concerning "Marriage and Homosexual Unions." The note, which appeared in full on the archdiocese's Web site, was aimed at helping enlighten Catholics in public office so that "they would not make choices that would publicly contradict their affiliation with the church," he wrote.
Catholic politicians must not only promote the common good; they also "have a serious duty to make sure their beliefs, thoughts and proposals concerning the common good are consistent," he wrote.
....
(...all tolerance is not lost on them)
"However, for the church, gay marriage is not part of an individual's rights," he told Catholic News Service Feb. 16.
Wanting to put a homosexual union on par with a marriage between a man and a woman "is unacceptable," he said.
However, he said, supporting gay marriage laws would not incur excommunication since that sanction is reserved to extremely serious crimes like abortion or abuse of the sacraments."
Link is here.
(someone correct me if I'm mistaken but I thought Catholics were the leading group practicing homosexual unions. I did note that some the young boys who were "unionized" were maybe not very committed.)
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