Blessing same sex marriages is just the same as a no catholic christian in mass crossing his hands over his chest to get the priest blessings. They can't be married in the church but at least the church can see them more than "just a union." I've never heard of the sacraments stop working based on what's in between a person's legs.
No it is not. You may bless and pray for an individual, even an individual in a same sex relationship. But you cannot bless the same sex relationship itself as such relationships are inherently sinful. Sex may only occur in marriage and marriage is - in the clear teachings of our lord - between one man and one woman until death.
Matthew 19:4-6 NIV
“Haven’t you read,” he replied, “that at the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female, and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh. So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”
So instead, stuck in the (ignorant) past.
What was true yesterday remains true today.
Like it is not up to date on basic demonstrable truths like homosexuality is neither a choice nor a psychological illness?
The Cross is heavy and the path narrow, uphill and littered with sharp stones. We all must struggle against our disordered passions which tempt us to turn from the laws of God. No matter the species of concupiscence one happens to suffer. The reward awaits those who trust in God and walk the hard path. Not for those who gratify their carnal desires, which modern people believe to be the human good.
I saw two roads. One was broad, covered with sand and flowers, full of joy, music and all sorts of pleasures. People walked along it, dancing and enjoying themselves. They reached the end without realizing it. And at the end of the road there was a horrible precipice; that is, the abyss of hell. The souls fell blindly into it. As they walked, so they fell. And their number was so great that it was impossible to count them. And I saw the other road, or rather, a path, for it was narrow and strewn with thorns and rocks; and the people who walked along it had tears in their eyes, and all kinds of suffering befell them. Some fell down upon the rocks, but stood up immediately and went on. At the end of this path there was a magnificent garden filled with all sorts of happiness and all these souls entered there. At the very first instant they forgot all their sufferings” (Diary 153). Saint Faustina
And you expect us, who don't share this faith, to "respect" this belief of yours and perhaps even accomodate to it, I bet, simply by virtue that you believe it.
On the contrary I expect the opposite. I expect to find myself in an increasingly hostile society which despises the Gospel. Because I see a society which has been given over to its lusts.
Romans 1:24-25 NIV
Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. They exchanged the truth about God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen
I don't think you meant to use that term. What does control of your bowel and bladder have to do with sexuality?
Abstaining from sexual activity is called continence.
Where did you get your commitment to truth?
I claim commitment to the truth as I believe it to be. And while I accept the possibility that Christianity as the exclusive truth could be wrong, I am nonetheless convinced of the following:
- God exists.
- The soul exists.
- The moral law exists. And it is not up for compromise.
- The moral law is more or less as laid out in the New Testament.
- The soul will be judged according to his or her deeds in life.