Anti-Gay Bigotry, Part II

Anti-Gay Bigotry, Part II by MSW.  MGB: People undertake litigation because they are being harmed, not because they have a desire to cash in. On the reason for gay marriage, one must really understand that gay couples are aggreived, largely due to the Catholic Church's treatment of gay patients. Hospital visition is not enough - the Church must recognize the right of individuals to designate their next of kin regardless of their sexuality, rather than defaulting to the wishes of an often estranged family of origin, who might still harbor with the Church the delusion that gay patients would only be saved if their partners are excluded (lest they fall back into the sin of loving outside the natural order).


The Church if fighting gay marriage primarily out of fear that the same forces that call for recognizing legal marriage will also call for canonical marriage within the Church, not by the intervention of the state but by pressure from the families. I suspect they also worry that their own gay clergy will quietly bless gay unions performed civilly and will join heterosexual priests in demanding the right to marry - or worse will forgo the priesthood as societal acceptance of gay marriage increases so that they no longer look to the clerical life as their place of acceptance. I supect their biggest fear is that if they change their view on the morality of homosexuality, their whole intellectual construct on their own infallibility will be shattered (which also explains their resistence to dealing rationally with contraception). This is just too much for them to take.