Trying to understand why Church allows baptism for children raised by gay couples

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Not everyone interperets things the same way and it sounds like there is a lot of exaggeration.
 
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Not much understanding of natural law evidenced there, eh?
Unmarried cohabitation is in no way equivalent to same sex “marriage.” The former is sinful but naturally ordered. The latter is sinful and unnaturally ordered.
 
Interestingly enough you didn’t want them to receive baptism in that thread.
 
Because we were talking about non-Catholic families having children baptized against their wishes or without their knowledge, not an imperfect Catholic family who is trying to do the right thing for their child.

If you can’t see the difference, we have nothing left to talk about.
 
Because humans are imperfect, and you can’t beat people into obedience.

Erroneous teaching has always existed in the Church. Before the council, where I live, it was a form of Jansenism.
 
I want it made very clear that I in no way support this statement. I am not sure why it was “liked” by me and why I can’t change it.

Sin is sin. To say gays are more sinful goes against the idea of treating them with kindness and compassion as the Catechism calls us too.
 
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not an imperfect Catholic family who is trying to do the right thing for their child.
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That’s not always the case and there are many who do it for cultural reason and are ignorant of the obligations baptism brings.
 
Do you believe that homosexual relationships are naturally ordered?
 
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Do you believe that homosexual relationships are naturally ordered?
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Masturbation is not naturally ordered either. I’ll bet you a beer (Belgian Blonde please) that there are many more faithful engaging in this sin than the sin of homosexual activity

And yet we do not seem to have problems baptizing the children of chronic self-abusers.

There really does seem to be a shortage of charity towards gays…
 
In the classical moral theological taxonomy of sexual sins, masturbation is indeed classified as unnatural. Not as grave a sin as homosexual activity, in the classical taxonomy, though still grave.
 
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How is that equivalent to people engaged in a mockery of marriage? Are they saying that the m word is totally fine and the defining element of their sexuality? In other words, I personally don’t know anyone who goes around saying “I’m a masturbator and the Church needs to respect that and I am part of a legal protected class”, but that is what some gay-“married” people say.
 
@Loud-living-dogma
@Episcopalian

Don’t box my ears. Don’t scream at me. I realize what I am posting is contrary to church teaching. It also comes from New Ways Ministry, and I’m aware of their position.

With that said, some Catholic bishops don’t object to legal unions for same-sex couples.

Here’s one such statement from 2011:

The Bishops of England and Wales believe civil partnerships successfully provide a legal protection for those in same-sex relationships, according to the Archbishop of Westminster.
“We would want to emphasise that civil partnerships actually provide a structure in which people of the same sex who want a lifelong relationship [and] a lifelong partnership can find their place and protection and legal provision,” Archbishop Vincent Nichols said at a press conference after the Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales meeting last week.*

I’m not saying this trend is good or bad.
 
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“New Ways Ministry,” right.
I wonder if they even care that if they could get what they really want–same sex “blessings,” same sex Catholic "marriage,"whatever–it would rip the Church asunder?
 
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It’s the child being baptized, not the gay couple. Do such unfortunate children need to eat only if they no longer live with a gay couple?
 
That gay people are bigger/worse sinners than anyone who commits any other sexual sin and using that to determine that children of gay people do not deserve to be Baptized because of the parents sin.
 
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Well, in classical Catholic moral theology there is one sexual sin (maybe two) that’s worse than homosexual intercourse, if that’s any consolation.
 
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