Marriage is a practice common to all cultures in all ages. It is, therefore, a natural institution, something common to all mankind. At its most basic level, marriage is a union between a man and a woman for the purpose of procreation and mutual support, or love. Each spouse in a marriage gives up some rights over his or her life in exchange for rights over the life of the other spouse. The Catholic Church teaches that marriage is:
- Free: it is entered into freely by both individuals.
- Fruitful: it is a union of opposite sexes open to the birth of children.
- Faithful: excludes a union with any other person so long as the marriage exists.
- Forever: a lifelong union, ending only with the death of one spouse.
Candidate Positions
- In 2012, Biden announced he was “totally comfortable” with same-sex “marriage.”
- Biden officiated his first same-sex “wedding” in 2016 and again in 2017.
- As California’s attorney general, Harris submitted a brief in the ongoing litigation over Proposition 8, the ban on same-sex marriage enacted by voters via a 2008 referendum. Among other things, Harris’s brief confirmed what she had said as a candidate and as attorney general-elect: Her office would not defend Proposition 8, by then a matter of state law written into the California Constitution, in court.
- Harris was among the first elected officials to officiate a same-sex “wedding” in 2013.
Catechism of the Catholic Church
- Male and Female He Created Them (CCC 369-373 and CCC 2331-2336)
- The Sacrament of Matrimony (CCC 1601-1666)
- Nature of the Family; Family and Society (CCC 2201-2213)
- Chastity and Homosexuality (CCC 2357-2359)
- The Love of Husband and Wife (CCC 2360-2379)
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