In the Pope’s annual Christmas address on December 21, 2012, along
with his peace address during the week of Dec. 10, 2012, he targeted
one group of people for criticism: same-sex parents.
In his annual peace message, Pope Benedict XVI said “gay marriage,
like abortion and euthanasia, is a threat to world peace.” This is
because the Catholic Church holds that homosexual acts are
“intrinsically disordered,” though it stresses that LGBTQ people should
be treated with compassion and dignity.
Same-sex marriage goes beyond questions of homosexuality, threatening
what the Catholic Church considers to be the bedrock of society: a
family based on a man, a woman, and their children. In his Christmas
address, the Pope pressed his opposition to those of us who are LGBTQ by
describing us as people who manipulate our God-given identities to suit
our sexual choices — and destroying the very “essence of the human
creature” in the process. To quote: “People dispute the idea that they
have a nature, given to them by their bodily identity, that serves as a
defining element of the human being … they deny their nature and decide
that it is not something previously given to them, but that they make it
for themselves … the manipulation of nature, which we deplore today
where our environment is concerned, now becomes man’s (sic) fundamental
choice where he himself is concerned.”
While I appreciate the Pope’s vision of one way of being a family — a
mom, a dad, and children, a.k.a., a traditional family — I know I live
in a world in which that way of being a “family” is but one of many ways
of being a “family.”
Read more here:
http://www.parentsociety.com/todays-family/same-sex-parents/pope-benedict-xvi-and-the-transforming-reforming-american-family/
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