Gee, this playbook sounds awfully familiar.
And guess what issue they think is the most living and breathing and apt to change? C’mon, guess. Yup. Gay sex. Wow. These guys are sure obsessed with this issue, huh? All I’m saying is that if I were hanging out with these guys, I wouldn’t leave my drink unattended. You do what you want but I’m taking my drink with me to the bathroom. In fact, I may not go to the bathroom at all.
Just to be clear, when Jesus was asked about marriage, He was pretty clear.
Some Pharisees approached him, and tested him,* saying, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any cause whatever?”
He said in reply, “Have you not read that from the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female’ and said, ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’?
So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore, what God has joined together, no human being must separate.”
That’s pretty clear. When asked about marriage he said it’s man and wife and that the Creator made them male and female.
This is something Jesus said, according to scripture. Now, if you’re of the mindset you can argue that either Jesus was wrong or the scripture misquoted Him.
In either case, you transform Catholicism into whatever you want it to be at any given moment.
German Cardinal Reinhard Marx said in an interview published on Thursday that the Catechism of the Catholic Church is “not set in stone” and “one is also allowed to doubt what it says.”
The cardinal made the comments in a seven-page spread in the March 31 edition of the weekly current affairs magazine Stern, reported CNA Deutsch, CNA’s German-language news partner.
Marx, the archbishop of Munich and Freising, is one of the most influential Catholic leaders in Europe, serving as a member of Pope Francis’ Council of Cardinal Advisers and president of the Vatican’s Council for the Economy.
He spoke about the Catechism in response to a question about “how homosexual, queer, or trans people are to be accommodated in Catholic teaching.”
He said: “An inclusive ethic that we envision is not about being lax — as some claim. It is about something else: encounter at eye level, respect for the other. The value of love is shown in the relationship; in not making the other person an object, in not using or humiliating the other person, in being faithful and dependable to each other. The Catechism is not set in stone. One may also doubt what it says.”
He went on: “We discussed these questions during the family synod, but there was reluctance to set something down. Even then I said: There are people living in an intimate love relationship that is expressed sexually. Are we really going to say that this is worthless? Sure, there are people who want to see sexuality limited to procreation, but what do they say to people who can’t have children?”
Sooooo….inclusive means inclusive of everyone and everything except Jesus? Got it.
And one last thing, I don’t want to hear the business that Jesus didn’t correct the people because they weren’t ready to hear the truth that the gay sex was awesome. Jesus was a walking Truth bomb. People literally ran from Him because the collateral damage of His Truth Bombs were life altering. And when they ran He didn’t change the teaching.
It is a hard teaching for some. I feel for them. I truly do. To have your sexual energies focused on same sex people and not being able to act on it must be extremely difficult and frustrating. But in the end, we all must take up our cross. Life is hard. The way of the cross is difficult.
If we question this fundamental teaching or doubt Jesus’ words, we are no longer worshipping Jesus but ourselves.
