Gay marriage isnt about sex its about church and state

Sometimes, everyone can benefit from a good reality check. The church could spend more time and resources figuring out how to deal with the reality that people including Catholics will continue to have legal same-sex marriages. In its writ of certiorari granting review, the Court framed the issues to be whether same-sex marriage is constitutionally required under the Fourteenth Amendment and, if not, whether states under Article IV have to recognize same-sex marriages performed in states where it is legal.

In Studies 1 and 2, we discovered that the relationship between religiosity and opposition to same-sex marriage was mediated by explicit sexual prejudice. Is there a way for the Catholic Church to respond to this reality in a similar way? Share This!

In Study 3, we saw that the mediating effect of sexual prejudice was linked to political conservatism. By, say, figuring out ways to effectively minister to gay couples , or to welcome children of same-sex parents into Catholic school? Elizabeth Lefebvre Elizabeth Lefebvre is a writer living in Chicago.

About the author. The same sex marriage debate should not be about gay rights but about the hallowed separation of church and state. Catholic , one first step could be for us to separate the church and state when it comes to marriages. Pretty soon, it could be time for a reality check from the church.

Church teaching is clear that gay people have full human dignity, even though church teaching is just as clear that the sacrament of marriage is meant for one man and one woman. And this week, Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah has said that we might need a reality check about same-sex marriage in the United States.

Many of the largest U.S. religious institutions have remained firmly against allowing same-sex marriage, including the Roman Catholic Church, the Orthodox Jewish movement and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, as well as the Southern Baptist Convention and other evangelical Protestant denominations.

These are real issues that the church faces now and will continue to face in the future. Talk of gay rights has drowned out a more promising argument against bans on same sex marriage. Contrary to what the senator says on his website, where he firmly supports marriage as between one man and one woman, on Wednesday he spoke on a radio program about the inevitability that same-sex marriage will eventually become legal throughout the entire country.