Thursday November 20, 2003

Vatican Theologian Slams U.S. Gay "Marriage" Ruling

Rome, Nov. 19 (CWNews.com/LifeSiteNews.com) - A top Vatican theologian on Wednesday criticized a US court's decision to formulate a right to same-sex "marriage." Father Gino Concetti, a moral theologian who writes for the official Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano, said: "This is a great wound to human dignity that can never be justified."

The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court issued a ruling on Tuesday that said any government rules preventing same-sex couples from marrying each other on the basis of their sexuality was unconstitutional. It also ordered the state Legislature to formulate a plan for legally recognized same-sex unions within 180 days.

Father Concetti called the decision "grave and presumptuous" and said it sanctioned a "moral disorder against God's creative plan." He said, "This (homosexual activity) is a moral disorder because it contradicts the natural order, which established a union founded on heterosexual relations."

Earlier this year, the Vatican issued a document reminding Catholics that legal recognition of homosexual relationships was a grave moral disorder and also reminding Catholic politicians that they could never support legislation that recognizes such unions. "This is against the creative plan of God, who made man and woman as two equal but complementary beings not only to love each other but to procreate," Father Concetti said.

See the full Vatican document on Homosexual Unions:
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2003/jul/030731a.html

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