Just about every year, we vote on
various propositions. Some of them go
away once they are defeated and others seem to reappear every so often. One issue that always seems to come back to
the forefront is the idea of homosexual “marriage”, which we as Catholics
cannot condone.
As American citizens, we are guaranteed certain inalienable rights such as life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness which are not reserved for heterosexuals alone. Homosexuals possess all of the human rights that are reserved for the rest of us. However, there are limits to these rights. For instance, a man can never be a duck nor can we ever consider a little girl to be a stone. Their behavior may resemble those things but they will always be human beings. Their respective biological make-up limits their existence to being representatives of the human race. The same can be said of marriage, which is the union between a man and a woman (Gen. 2:21-25). This is why Gen. 2:24 tells us, “For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother, and be joined to his wife; and they shall become one flesh.” When God created man and woman, he made it so that only a man and a woman could conceive children - regardless of what scientists may concoct within the environs of a laboratory or Petri dish.
No matter how many operations a person undergoes to resemble their favorite idol – they will never actually become them. Just as blue is blue and red is red – members of the same gender cannot be married. Nobody ever questions why a non-Jewish boy doesn’t get a Bar Mitzva or why a man cannot give birth – or even why beef jerky cannot be made out of chicken. There are no lawsuits nor is there any litigation on these matters because they are pre-ordained. Simply put - they are what they are.
The Catholic Church usually bears the brunt of the bad press on this topic. We are represented as gay-bashers or as being intolerant of any lifestyle that we don’t agree with. Just as we are not to be tolerant of any other sin such as stealing, adultery or fornication – we cannot be tolerant of anything that is considered sinful in the eyes of God. The Bible explicitly teaches that the homosexual lifestyle is gravely sinful (Lev. 18:22, 20:13, Rom. 1:26-7) – as is all sexual immorality (Acts 21:25, 1 Cor. 10:8, 1 Tim. 1:9-11).
As American citizens, we are guaranteed certain inalienable rights such as life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness which are not reserved for heterosexuals alone. Homosexuals possess all of the human rights that are reserved for the rest of us. However, there are limits to these rights. For instance, a man can never be a duck nor can we ever consider a little girl to be a stone. Their behavior may resemble those things but they will always be human beings. Their respective biological make-up limits their existence to being representatives of the human race. The same can be said of marriage, which is the union between a man and a woman (Gen. 2:21-25). This is why Gen. 2:24 tells us, “For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother, and be joined to his wife; and they shall become one flesh.” When God created man and woman, he made it so that only a man and a woman could conceive children - regardless of what scientists may concoct within the environs of a laboratory or Petri dish.
No matter how many operations a person undergoes to resemble their favorite idol – they will never actually become them. Just as blue is blue and red is red – members of the same gender cannot be married. Nobody ever questions why a non-Jewish boy doesn’t get a Bar Mitzva or why a man cannot give birth – or even why beef jerky cannot be made out of chicken. There are no lawsuits nor is there any litigation on these matters because they are pre-ordained. Simply put - they are what they are.
The Catholic Church usually bears the brunt of the bad press on this topic. We are represented as gay-bashers or as being intolerant of any lifestyle that we don’t agree with. Just as we are not to be tolerant of any other sin such as stealing, adultery or fornication – we cannot be tolerant of anything that is considered sinful in the eyes of God. The Bible explicitly teaches that the homosexual lifestyle is gravely sinful (Lev. 18:22, 20:13, Rom. 1:26-7) – as is all sexual immorality (Acts 21:25, 1 Cor. 10:8, 1 Tim. 1:9-11).
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