Cardinal Marx: Church should see positive aspects of homosexual relationships

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Cardinal Marx: Church should see positive aspects of homosexual relationships

Cardinal Reinhard Marx of Munich has said that the Church should "say sorry" for mistreatment of homosexuals.

Speaking to an audience in Dublin, Cardinal Marx-- who is the president of the German bishops' conference, and a member of the Council of Cardinals advising Pope Francis-- said that homosexuals have been oppressed through history and "we've done a lot to marginalize them." He said that the Catholic Church had contributed to this injustice until "very recently."

Cardinal Marx recalled that during last year's meeting of the Synod of Bishops, he had provoked a strong reaction by saying that a faithful and loving relationship between homosexuals has some of the same positive benefits as a marital relationship. When he made that remark, the cardinal reported, "some were shocked, but I think it's normal. You cannot say that a relationship between a man and a man, and they are faithful, that is nothing, that has no worth."​

 

[Saint Frankenstein]

Nice, but I've had enough of these vague statements. "Very recently"? No, it's still going on. Eventually the Church is going to fully accept LGBT people, so they need to stop dragging their feet on it. They used to teach that Jews killed Christ and are cursed by God due to it and that everyone outside of the Church is going straight to hell, and they did a 180 on those things (which angered the arch-conservatives and led to sedevacantism), so they know they can change on this point. It's not a matter of dogma. I don't recall where in the Nicene Creed it says anything about LGBT people. The arch-conservative types who hate LGBT people and ignore Christ's social message will of course be angry when the Vatican finally fully accepts LGBT people as we are, but oh, well. It's a matter of separating the wheat from the tares. The Church will continue on without them, if they want to schism, like it always has. Let them be marginalized. Unlike LGBT people, it's not a matter of them changing who they are. They can change from hatred to loving their neighbor.