Polls regularly show a gulf between the values of many American Catholics and the teachings of the Catholic Church. For instance, more than two-thirds of American Catholics support legalized same-sex marriage, according to a 2020 Gallup survey. Fifty-six percent of American Catholics agree with Biden and Pelosi, backing abortion being legal in most or all cases, per a 2019 Pew Research Center survey.
If you don’t agree with what the Catholic Church teaches, find another church. I do believe what the Church teaches and I don’t care whether those teachings are fashionable.
See also: A RESPONSE TO THE "STATEMENT OF PRINCIPLES".
We believe the separation of church and state allows for our faith to inform our public duties and best serve our constituents.
Agreed. The trouble is that so many of the statement’s legislators seem to conform and restrict their faith to the platform of the Democratic party.
My father and his twin brother were adopted. They were raised by 2 nurses from around 5-years-old. So I had 3 grandmothers and 1 grandfather, which never seemed odd. Indeed, it's never been anything but normal, to me or anyone in this large, generationally extended family we now have. We've never had any cause even to use the term "lesbian" or "same-sex". Yeah sure, and I'm a monkey's uncle, whatever.
ReplyDeleteThank God loving, nurturing people are around to adopt children. We'll need more of them if we're going to bring babies into the world who will have biological parents who will not want or will be incapable of raising them Catholic or otherwise. This is where something like Catholic Charities can come in, by the way, a great way to get converts.
I'll get to the marriage issue, but first I need to address how I've been misleading. Only one of my father's mothers adopted the twins. Yet, both of them should have been able to, obviously. Part of the problem created is so practical. It's a matter of both parents being able to sign the kids into schools and authorize medical treatment. There is no question that they both should have been able to adopt. Anything else is, well, ridiculous. And here note that they were raising the boys before they adopted them. The adoption had to be out of state rigmarole, done in order to have the necessary guardianship in even more ridiculous 1930s Massachusetts.
Issue 2 came as a realization to me after I got a job. It's about taxes. Why did my mother's parents get the marriage tax break that my father's parents could not claim? That's just grossly unfair. There is no justification for that. And I'd like to change the term "ridiculous" in the previous paragraph to "grossly unfair", both places.
The resolution to all of this, is civil unions. Your post mentions that if a Catholic does not like some Biblical interpretation that some of the bishops and a pope want them to follow, that they can get another religion. Well, what if the government got out of the marriage business altogether, and only issued civil union licenses? Then, you could not argue that two women should not get married, because they wouldn't be -- unless they were in a church that would bless their union so. That's the seed of an unnecessary holy war played out in ballot boxes and legislatures.
The crux of the issue really is that the states are not doing marriages the Catholic way. By conflating civil unions into being marriages, we end up having different definitions of marriage. It comes down to the definition. What Catholics are disagreeing with is the states' definition of marriage. Well holy criminy, if anyone is married and not Catholic, they are not really married according to Catholic church anyway, sacramentally speaking. All you have to do is flip the issue around, and say that what these same-sex people are calling marriage are not Catholic marriages.
It's very Catholic to let my grandmoters live together and raise two boys, and get the tax benefits that married Catholics get. Just call it a civil union. Then, Catholics can go about their Catholic business, and non-Catholics can go about their Uncatholic business.
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