christian grantham
Christian Grantham was a student activist in the late 90s and later was a consultant to domestic policy forums for the Clinton Administration as well as events for HRC and GLAAD.
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January 29, 2005

There is a reason the Pope doesn't come out and urge Catholic politicians to ban laws that allow divorce and protect various religious lifestyle choices that reject Jesus Christ. Today's Catholics simply have a deep tolerance for such hell-bound lifestyles that explicitly break the commandments.

The moral lapses of today's Catholic Church have nothing to do with the love between same-sex couples, which breaks not a single commandment. Yet nothing is easier for the spiritually misguided and morally bankrupt than to scapegoat those who live as God sees fit.

"Homosexual unions and cohabitation cannot be considered as marriages," Polish Cardinal Antoni Stankiewicz, the most senior judge on the Roman Rota, stressed in an address to the pope.

"To treat homosexual unions the same as marriages, as has been done under the laws of certain countries, does not make them any more valid, whether or not they are legal," he said.

The Roman Catholic Church has labelled homosexuality "a troubling moral and social phenomenon", while staunchly defending traditional marriage as the basis for society.

John Paul II himself made no explicit reference to same-sex marriages, although he accused Roman Catholic tribunals of laxity in agreeing to annul religious marriages.
[Vatican condemns gay marriage - Times of India - 01-29-05]