This is the bishop who refused to say that gay marriage needs to be overturned -- who said, with that confidence in his own political savvy that only a bishop can display, that the time is not opportune to try (he has no plan for when the right time would be). Who doubled down on, in his words, not focusing on "pelvic issues."
And just how is he going to defend marriage? His sympathies lie with the gays, not with vulnerable youth.
He is on record as not wanting to deal with any aspects of LGBT influence on the culture.
On my own Facebook page and on his official one, I asked him why he doesn't follow and teach (as a bishop) Church teaching on homosexuality and why he fails the victims of surrogacy and trafficking in human flesh; I got blocked for my efforts.
Bishop Barron is more of a threat to marriage and family life than James Martin SJ, who certainly is not set to chair the bishops' committee on those topics.
How about defending normal marriages between a man and a woman, the bedrock of all civilization?
ReplyDeleteWhy does it matter to a bishop (or any Catholic) if there are civil marriages among LGBTQ people? That's a matter for the state, not the church. Should he also be trying to ban civil marriages of divorced people? The state cannot tell the church whom it may or may not marry, nor should the reverse be true.
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