Homosexual wedding

[holyrood]

If any of our friends were to enter into a gay union we would attend the wedding and we would trust that God is using the circumstances of their life to call them into union with himself. By so doing we would also keep them engaged in our life (happily married for 30 years, heterosexual with 4 lovely adult children) and by so doing continue to plant the seeds of the blessings born from committed, loving relationships built on faith, family and friends.

Is this respect in your view?

I’m sure your heart is in the right place, but I believe the only seeds you’re planting is that their lifestyle is perfectly acceptable. Your presence there is only encouraging them to continue with behavior that in fact separates them from God.

We hear a lot about Jesus eating with sinners, and telling the woman accused of adultery that he didn’t condemn her. But never do these same people want to talk about the rest of what he said: Go and sin no more.

 

[Hoosier_Daddy]

So then what you are saying is that Catholics are not allowed to attend weddings of ANY baptized person unless it is performed in a Church by a priest! That probably excludes may interfaith marriages…

Who are we to be so judgemental! Don’t you understand that God’s love is infinite and his mercy is boundless. We are to spread love and joy as he did…not judgement and heartache. He ate and drank with sinners too!

Leave the judgement to God as he will judge us all!

Who are we to be judgemental? Why we are loving Christians following the words of our savior and His apostles who tell us that we are TO Judge.
For if not “judging” how could we ever help anyone ever. If not judging, how could we tell Child abusers they are wrong? Without Judging how can we spread the Gospel?

The Judgement of our eternal souls will be had by God and God alone. Don’t you think we owe it to ourselves and our neighbor to love them enough to help save them from an eternal hell?

 

[Bookcat]

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[JimG]

So then what you are saying is that Catholics are not allowed to attend weddings of ANY baptized person unless it is performed in a Church by a priest! That probably excludes may interfaith marriages…

Who are we to be so judgemental! Don’t you understand that God’s love is infinite and his mercy is boundless. We are to spread love and joy as he did…not judgement and heartache. He ate and drank with sinners too!

Leave the judgement to God as he will judge us all!

On the contrary, the Church recognized most non-Catholic marriages as valid, and presumes them to be so unless proven otherwise. Catholics, however, are bound by the marriage laws of the Church, so an attempt by a Catholic to marry outside the Church without a dispensation would not be valid. Even marriages between non-baptized persons are recognized as valid.

What can not be recognized as a marriage, because it is not, is a ‘marriage’ between two persons of the same sex. That is simply a contradiction in terms, and a celebration of moral disorder. A Catholic should not attend a same sex marriage any more than he should drive someone to a clinic for an abortion. It is a cooperation with evil.

 

[clem456]

Is it a sin for a catholic to attend a homosexual wedding?
God bless!

It depends on the circumstances.

There is no specific cut and paste answer to this question that fits all occasions.
Obviously, it could be a sin. There would have to be a really good reason for me to attend a civil union, but it is not correct to say that it IS sinful in all cases.