Vatican Stand on Gays
As a member of the Catholic Church, I was again horrified at the contents of the Vatican document sent to the United States Catholic Bishops (“Document by Vatican Backs Anti-Gay Bias,” July 17, 1992).
How can any creed, especially one whose very name means “universal,” state that “there are areas in which it is not unjust discrimination to take sexual orientation into account”?
Discrimination begins with the singling out of one group of people and inevitably contradicts the precepts of any Christian ethic.
Can this be the foundation upon which the Vatican hopes to build a canonical foundation for the Catholic Church of the 21st Century?
If so, I want no part of this “building.”
STEVEN J. GOETZ
Irvine
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