Same-Sex Marriage

Moral Evaluation according to the

Church’s Magisterium
• Casti Connubii (1930)
Thus in the
• Gaudium et Spes (1965)
Church’s moral
• Humanae Vitae (1968) evaluation of
same-sex
• Evangelium Vitae (1995)
marriage:
• SCDF Document: Considerations Regarding NOTHING NEW
Proposals to Give Legal Recognition to IS SAID
Unions between Homosexual Persons (2003)
 Nature of Marriage and its
Inalienable Characteristics
 Preliminary: Church teaching on marriage and on the
complimentarity of the sexes:
 Right reason
 Recognized by all major cultures

 Goods of Marriage (CC)

 Offspring
 Conjugal Fidelity
 Indissolubility and Unity: Sacramentality

 GS 50
“Marriage and married love are by nature ordered to the
procreation and education of children”
 Nature of Marriage and its
Inalienable Characteristics
 Natural Truths on Marriage was confirmed by
Revelation.
 3 Foundational Element of God’s Plan in instituting
marriage accdg to Genesis
 Man (as God’s image) was created “male and female”: equal
and complementary (1:27)
 Use of Sexual Faculty (2:24)
 Participation in the Work of Creation (1:28)

 Thus, in God’s plan sexual complimentarity and

fruitfulness belong to the very nature of marriage.
 Moreover, in Christ it was raised as a Sacrament
 Church’s Dogmatic
Pronouncement against SSM
 CCC 2357 Homosexual acts go against the natural
moral law
Homosexual Acts “ close the sexual act to the gift of life.
They do not proceed from a genuine affective and sexual
complementarity. Under no circumstances can they be
approved ... They are intrinsically disordered” form of
sexuality.
 SCDF #4
“There are absolutely no grounds for considering
homosexual unions to be in any similar or even remotely
analogous to God’s plan for marriage and family”
 TAPOS ANG USAPAN!!!! 
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 Arguments drawn from
REASON
 SCDF Document: Considerations Regarding Proposals
to Give Legal Recognition to Unions between
Homosexual Persons (2003)
 Aims: Protect and Promote
 the Dignity of Marriage
 Foundation of the Family
 Stability of Society
 For Bishops: prepare specific interventions
 For Catholic Legislators: proposed laws must be
consistent with conscience.
 For everyone (not only Christians!) committed to
defending the common good of society.
 From the Order of Right
Reason
 Civil Law cannot contradict right reason (natural
moral law).
 Civil Law cannot and must not allow SSM:
1. Civil Laws must provide the stability of society. One
guarantee of society’s stability is the continuity of
race. SSM contradicts!
2. State has duty to defend marriage as an institution
essential to the common good. SSM being placed in
par with “marriage” compromises the value of
marriage. (should it be one of the institutions in the
legal structure?) State has responsibility to forming
social values. EV 90.
 From the Biological and
Anthropological order
 SSM lack the biological and anthropological elements:
 Does not contribute to the survival of the human race
 More moral harm done: potentially open to make use of the
methods of artificial reproduction
 Lacks the conjugal dimension
 Will the physical and emotional sexual pleasure be mutual?
 Not open to the transmission of new life
 Abnormal Psychological Development of Children
 Deprived of genuine experience of fatherhood and motherhood
 Do more harm to children: placed in an environment that is not
conducive for their full human development.
 From the Social Order
 Society owes its existence and survival to the
family founded on marriage.
 Recognizing SSM would be the REdefinition of
marriage.
 SSM, in acquiring legal status, becomes an
institution devoid of essential qualities linked to
heterosexual marriage: procreation and raising
children.
 From the Social Order
 Respect and Non-discrimination principle?
 Cannot be invoked!!! Justice requires the denial of the legal
and social status of SSM and other forms of cohabitation that
are NOT and CANNOT be marital. It is not opposed to justice.
 Proper Autonomy of Individual?
 Cannot be invoked!!! There are more good reasons for holding
that SSM are harmful to the proper development of human
society.
 “It is one thing to maintain that individual citizens may freely
engage in those activities that interest them and that this falls
within the common civil right to freedom; it is something quite
different to hold that activities which do not represent a
significant or positive contribution to the development of the
human person in society can receive specific and categorical legal
recognition by the State. Not even in a remote analogous sense do
homosexual unions fulfill the purpose for which marriage and
family deserve specific categorical recognition.” SCDF 8
 From the Legal Order
 Eh wala naman silbi eh!
“Because married couples ensure the succession of generations
and are therefore eminently within the public interest, civil law
grants them institutional recognition. Homosexual unions, on
the other hand, do not need specific attention from the legal
standpoint since they do not exercise this function for the
common good.” SCDF 9
 For those who say ‘Paano na ang right nila as persons
and free citizens’. Church says:
“It would be gravely unjust to sacrifice the common good and
just laws on the family in order to protect personal goods that
can and must be guaranteed in ways that do not harm the body
of society” SCDF 9
 For the Catholic Legislator
in the State
 KAPAG PINAGUUSAPAN PA LANG, the Catholic law-maker has
a moral duty to express his opposition clearly and publicly and to
vote against it.
 “di ako agree”
 KUNG NA-APRUBAHAN NILA, the Catholic politician must
oppose it in the ways that are possible for him and make his
opposition known; it is his duty to witness to the truth.
 “di talaga ako agree kasi mali iyan”
 KUNG TALAGANG AYAW NILA, the Catholic politician,
recalling the indications contained in the Encyclical Letter
Evangelium vitae, “could licitly support proposals aimed at limiting
the harm done by such a law and at lessening its negative
consequences at the level of general opinion and public morality”,
on condition that his “absolute personal opposition” to such laws
was clear and well known and that the danger of scandal was
avoided.
 “for the record di ako bumoto diyan. Pwede bang i-modify para di skandalo”
Final Words and Conclusion
SCDF 11
 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.
 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
 Final Words and Conclusion
SCDF “On the Pastoral Care of Homosexual Persons”
 Homosexual activity is not a complementary union, able to transmit life; and
so it thwarts the call to a life of that form of self-giving which the Gospel
says is the essence of Christian living. This does not mean that homosexual
persons are not often generous and giving of themselves; but when they
engage in homosexual activity they confirm within themselves a disordered
sexual inclination which is essentially self-indulgent (#7)
 The abandonment of homosexual activity will require a profound
collaboration of the individual with God's liberating grace (#11)
 Just as the Cross was central to the expression of God's redemptive love for
us in Jesus, so the conformity of the self-denial of homosexual men and
women with the sacrifice of the Lord will constitute for them a source of
self-giving which will save them from a way of life which constantly
threatens to destroy them (#12)
 Christians who are homosexual are called, as all of us are, to a chaste life.
As they dedicate their lives to understanding the nature of God's personal
call to them, they will be able to celebrate the Sacrament of Penance more
faithfully and receive the Lord's grace so freely offered there in order to
convert their lives more fully to his Way (#12)
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