January 22, 2010
Church position on same sex unions
In a 2003 document published by the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith on “Considerations regarding proposals to give legal recognition to unions between homosexual persons,” it concluded, “The Church teaches that respect for homosexual persons cannot lead in any way to approval of homosexual behavior or to legal recognition of homosexual unions.
“The common good requires that laws recognize, promote and protect marriage as the basis of the family, the primary unit of society,” the document said. “Legal recognition of homosexual unions or placing them on the same level as marriage would mean not only the approval of deviant behavior, with the consequence of making it a model in present-day society, but would also obscure basic values which belong to the common inheritance of humanity.
“The Church cannot fail to defend these values, for the good of men and women, and for the good of society itself.”
Web resources
- Alliance Defense Fund — Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) Watch www.DOMAwatch.org
- To keep up with the Church’s legislative action at the Statehouse go to the ICC Web page www.indianacc.org and click “Legislative Updates” to view the most current information.
- Join the Indiana Catholic Action Network (I-CAN) at www.indianacc.org click “Join I-CAN Network.”