Comments on Distinctly Catholic by Michael Sean Winters at National Catholic Reporter.
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
U.S. views on marriage evolving, polls show
U.S. views on marriage evolving, polls show MGB: Constitutional rights are not a matter for public debate, once established. Obama needs to evolve his opinion into an order to DOJ to file cases overturning state laws that violate the rights of gays and lesbians, including the right to marriage. As for the Church, they are very much afraid that the same pressures to do gay legal marriage will be shifted to them by Catholics who will demand that such unions be blessed publicly (they are already sacramental, whether the hierarchy says so or not). I suspect that such unions are already being blessed privately. A largely gay priesthood would not be averse to doing this, although gay marriage could either hurt recruitment or open up yet another front in the debate on priestly celibacy. Finally, Catholic traditional marriage, which is coordinated with the view of the relationship between Christ and the Church, needs to be rethought - because the traditional view is of unequal partners. Liberal Catholics should not be shy in wanting this view to change as well.
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