It is a great gift from God to have clear, measured, authoritative teachers who will both cultivate the faithful’s “sense of the faith” and safeguard the deposit of faith:
Advocates for so-called “marriage equality” claim that the traditional definition of marriage unjustly discriminates against homosexual persons. Unjust discrimination is always wrong. But treating different things differently is not unjust discrimination. Protecting marriage is a matter of justice.
(source: The future of marriage hangs in the balance – Archdiocese of Oklahoma City)
Remember that “every form of unjust discrimination” is forbidden to Catholics by our own Catechism, and by the Gospel. That does not diminish our responsibility to see ourselves as both reason and revelation inform us we really are, and it cannot absolve us for our failures to preserve and pass on that understanding.
But all sins can be forgiven as we turn from them to take the pierced hand of Mercy.
