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Just wondering, where in the Catechism does it say that governments must restrict marriage to being between a man and a woman?
 
Marriage is a sacrament of God:nope: Man and a woman:nope: Look up the sacrament in the CCC and you will see the conditions are not optional.
 
what makes you think the government needs the Catechism to see the obvious?
 
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Just wondering, where in the Catechism does it say that governments must restrict marriage to being between a man and a woman?
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Hi ej1111!

The Catechism says:
**1605 **Holy Scripture affirms that man and woman were created for one another: “It is not good that the man should be alone.” The woman, “flesh of his flesh,” his equal, his nearest in all things, is given to him by God as a “helpmate”; she thus represents God from whom comes our help. Therefore a man leaves his father and his mother and cleaves to his wife, and they become one flesh. The Lord himself shows that this signifies an unbreakable union of their two lives by recalling what the plan of the Creator had been in the beginning: “So they are no longer two, but one flesh.”
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**1923 **Political authority must be exercised within the limits of the moral order and must guarantee the conditions for the exercise of freedom.
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Therefore, if marriage was created to be a complimentary union between one man and one woman, then it is the moral responsibility of a government wielding political power to further that moral directive.

Try not to think of the Catechism as an exhaustive presentation of everything that the Church teaches, but rather as a summary. It would therefore be unreasonable to expect it to specifically address each and every novel error that it is possible for the fallen mind to formulate.
 
But in the eyes of the State, marriage is a civil contract, not a sacrament. So I’m wondering what passage says that the government must restrict this civil contract to being between a man and a woman.
 
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But in the eyes of the State, marriage is a civil contract, not a sacrament. So I’m wondering what passage says that the government must restrict this civil contract to being between a man and a woman.
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Hi ej1111!
**1921 **Authority is exercised legitimately if it is committed to the common good of society. To attain this it must employ morally acceptable means.
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A legitimate government must use the authority granted it by God to further the natural law.
 
Catholics are responsible for the inculteration of their faith; thus, we must seek to form government laws according to the faith and morals we are obligated to promote.Bob
 
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Lisa4Catholics:
Marriage is a sacrament of God:nope: Man and a woman:nope: Look up the sacrament in the CCC and you will see the conditions are not optional.
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Exactly! 👍
 
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