Catholics, Gay Marriage & Washington D.C.

Pay careful attention to what’s happening in Washington D.C. with the Catholic Church and the D.C. City Council right now. This is a case where a perfect storm of liberal political fundamentalism and anti-Catholic sentiment have coalesced over the issue of recognizing gay marriage in the District.
Also, follow how the anti-Catholic media are consistently telling [...]

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New York Catholic Bishops on Gay Marriage

There are very profound theological arguments one can make in defense of traditional marriage, but one can also make largely secular, common sense arguments as well. The Catholic Bishops of New York’s gay marriage statement is a brief and logical statement on why gay marriage is so radical and unprecedented.
The Bishops begin:
“We face today the [...]

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New York and Gay Marriage: ‘Lie of the Law’

Today New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn told a live television audience (with Gov. Paterson and Mayor Bloomberg by her side) that the legalization of gay marriage “will make the lie of the marriage laws in New York evaporate.” Wow! Catholics and Christians should take careful note of such language.
It means that gay activists [...]

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Pope Leo XIII On Gay Marriage

The truth is that Pope Leo XIII never wrote a word on gay marriage; He was the Catholic Pope from 1878 to 1903 when divorce, not gay marriage, was the newest attack on the family. Yet Pope Leo’s arguments opposing state divorce laws are relevant today in the present debate in secular society concerning marriage.
In [...]

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Open Letter to Catholic Author Richard Rodriguez

Dear Mr. Richard Rodriguez:
I write as a fellow Catholic who read your recent interview in Salon.com entitled “Why Churches Fear Gay Marriage.” You describe yourself as a practicing Catholic who receives communion at the Most Holy Redeemer Church in San Francisco, so you may know that there are seven Spiritual Works of Mercy Catholics are [...]

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Gay Marriage and Proposition 8 in California

Catholics, and other traditionally-minded people, must be prepared nowadays to answer advocates of gay marriage. In the wake of the passage of Proposition 8 in California banning gay marriage, gay activists have begun to take to the streets, the media and the blogs to convince Americans that defending marriage as a union between a man [...]

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Gay Marriage and the Catholic Church

One certainly doesn’t need to use  Catholic theological arguments to defend marriage; it’s obvious that every society since the dawn of history has relied on “traditional marriage” as its bedrock, but Catholics should know what marriage is (in the positive sense) so that they will recognize what it certainly is not.

Catholics should understand first and [...]

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Gay Marriage and Catholic Teaching

Catholic teaching on gay marriage centers around its understanding of what marriage is in the affirmative, along with its understanding of homosexuality.
The debate whether the state should recognize gay marriage is a peculiar one, mostly on the grounds that no society has ever officially experimented with this basic building block of civilization; but also because [...]

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