Graduality at the Synod | National Catholic Reporter by MSW. MGB: The truth is quite liberating, including a sexual doctrine that offers integrity (it must be offered, it cannot be demanded). Still, Burke's insistence that there is certainly in the Gospels about divorce or gay marriage is simply not true.
In Jesus' time, marriages were arranged (and apparently unarranged) by families, not individuals and people took it for granted that homosexual relations were a pagan thing - something from outside. I suspect that gay Jewish lovers may have disagreed but would not come forward - although one does hear of gay cults and even gay unions in early Christianity. Perhaps the Magisterium is a bit more muddled then Burke believes.
As for gradualism, it is hard because of resistance, but what must be gradually and then radically changed is that the bishops, the Roman Curia or even the Holy Father, have some monopoly on natural law reasoning. It is just not true - and its claim to experience is laughable. Truth is what it is, regardless of the Synod. Hopefully it will become the instrument of freeing the truth so that those actually making moral decisions can be guided by the Magisterium but feel bound by their own consciences.
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