Posted on 04/08/2016 11:02:15 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski
Exactly! If encouraging the family is the purpose of this exhortation, talking about homosexuality is superfluous. It should not taint a single page.
Of course, it shouldn't. But it does.
We need to acknowledge the great variety of family situations that can offer a certain stability, but de facto or same-sex unions, 38 arGenTinian bishops’ conference, Navega mar adentro (31 May 2003), 42. 39 mexican bishops’ conference, Que en Cristo Nuestra Paz México tenga vida digna (15 February 2009), 67. 41 for example, may not simply be equated with marriage.
We need to acknowledge the great variety of family situations that can offer a certain stability, but de facto or same-sex unions, for example, may not simply be equated with marriage
Why even try to equate or compare sodomy to anything but mortal sin, let alone the sacrament of marriage.
Why should "homosexual unions even be addressed in a papal exhortation?
Surely it is legitimate and right to reject older forms of the traditional family marked by authoritarianism...
How many former Catholic popes have addressed sodomy and adultery in such pastoral exhortations and not condemned the same?
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