ROME — Jesuit Father James Martin, an LGBT advocate, affirmed Saturday his belief that two men can enter into a real marriage that must be recognized as such.
Answer to Bill Donohue from the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights. proposedThis Pete Buttigieg’s same-sex marriage to his partner Chasten is not a true marriage but rather a “legal fiction,” Father Martin countered that “Pete Buttigieg is married.”
Pete Buttigieg and his wife are married. https://t.co/3eiX0bt3Im
— James Martin, SJ (@JamesMartinSJ) January 21, 2023
The Catholic Church CatechismMarriage is a covenant “by which a man and a woman form with each other an intimate communion of life and love.”
According to the United States Bishops, they note that “growing movement today favors making those relationships commonly called same-sex unions the legal equivalent of marriage,”A proposal rejected by the Catholic Church
Marriage “is a faithful, exclusive, lifelong union of a man and a woman joined in an intimate community of life and love,”The bishops proclaim. Man and woman can be equal “they are different from but made for each other.”
These truths regarding marriage aren’t just religious beliefs. “present in the order of nature and can be perceived by the light of human reason,”The bishops also add.
Bill Donohue claimed that there is no man in this longer essay, to which Father Martin was responding. “can have a husband any more than a man can bear a child. He can say he does but that doesn’t make it true.”
“Nature can be stubborn. It is not a social construct. It is fixed. The sooner we learn this verity, the better off our society will be,” Donohue declared.
“So what should we call Chasten, if he is not Buttigieg’s husband? His partner,”He stated. “The two of them may not like it, but truth is not determined by what is popular. It is determined by what makes sense according to nature and nature’s God.”
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