Memo to Chaput and Kaine: Stay in your lane! | National Catholic Reporter by MSW. MGB: Too bad Kaine did not respond to Chaput on life issues - not the morality but the politics and law. Some Catholic politician needs to be brave enough to do so, or else they will hold onto the old idea that the Supreme Court will eventually do something. I won't and it shouldn't.
As for the political opinions of the Church, we should not trust the clergy for this. If the Church corporate is to have political opinions, then parishoners must be consulted as to their formation. If you want to know what the Catholic vote should be, you should ask a wider swath of Catholic voters.
Kaine is right by the way in his speculation, but he should have clarified that it is not the government who will change Catholic doctrine, it is the families of gay couples who want a marriage in Church. Again, the voice of the faithful - which Kaine is also a part of. In marriage class, they taught that the couple performs the Sacrament. Gays do that. They also taught that functionality rather than fecundity is required. Gays have that. The Church as employer (and politicians do have an opinion on this) regularly hires people in civil marriages. To distinguish gay and straight civil marriages (civil marriages are still regarded as sinful) is simply bigotry. That must change - especially since there are vindictive pastors and bishops who punish gay marrieds as an act of sour grapes. They are not doing this in our names but their own and it's a sin.
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