CBCP: No to Same-Sex marriage, but no discrimination practice
“THE Church continues to maintain what it has always taught. Marriage is a permanent union of man and woman, in the complementarity of the sexes and the mutual fulfillment that the union of a man and a woman bring into the loftiness of the matrimonial bond”.
This was reiterated by Archbishop Socrates Villegas, president of the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) who heads the archdiocese of Lingayen-Dagupan, in reaction to the U.S. Supreme Court ruling legitimizing Same-Sex Marriage across the states.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the ban against same-sex marriages in some states is unconstitutional.
“Fortunately for human persons, there is so much more to us and to our dignity than what the law prescribes. While human positive law is the distillation of human experience of orderly and organized life, it does not exhaust human wisdom, nor it has room for the wisdom of which God makes us participant,” said Archbishop Villegas in his statement posted in the archdiocese’s website on June 29, 2015.
Villegas said, “there is an undeniable difference between man and woman, there is also an undeniable difference between the permanent union of a man and a woman,” pointing out that “this is the way the Church has always read Sacred Scriptures.”
“This is the way it has lived its faith, inspired by the Holy Spirit, in that living normative found called Sacred Tradition. We will continue to teach the sons and daughters of the Church that marriage, transformed by The Lord Jesus and by His Church into a sacrament — a means by which the Risen Lord encounters his people — is an indissoluble bond of man and woman.”
“As president of the CBCP, I reiterate our commitment to the pastoral solicitude of all, and no bishop, priest, deacon, religious or lay leader actively serving the Church will ever demand to know of a person his or her orientation before serving the person, as The Lord Jesus commands all his disciples to serve,” he said
All will continue to find welcome in the Church, while, under command from The Lord himself, will continue to teach what the Church has unceasingly taught. (Leonardo Micua)
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