{"id":11431,"date":"2011-06-26T12:25:31","date_gmt":"2011-06-26T16:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/?p=11431"},"modified":"2011-06-26T12:25:31","modified_gmt":"2011-06-26T16:25:31","slug":"bishop-vasa-gay-%e2%80%98marriage%e2%80%99-supporters-misunderstand-sex-human-nature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2011\/06\/bishop-vasa-gay-%e2%80%98marriage%e2%80%99-supporters-misunderstand-sex-human-nature\/","title":{"rendered":"Bishop Vasa: gay \u2018marriage\u2019 supporters misunderstand sex, human nature"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>SEATTLE, June 22, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) &#8211; Supporters of gay \u201cmarriage\u201d fail to understand both the purpose of sex and the nature of human beings, said one Catholic bishop last week.<\/p>\n<p>Bishop Robert Vasa, formerly of Baker, Oregon and now coadjutor bishop of Santa Rosa, California, spoke with LifeSiteNews.com on the topic at the U.S. bishops\u2019 conference in Seattle. Asked to comment on the fight for same-sex \u201cmarriage,\u201d Vasa indicated that the mainstream emphasis on equality and civil rights completely misses the point of the debate.<\/p>\n<p>The real controversy, said Vasa, revolves around \u201ca proper philosophical understanding of the nature of the human person, and the nature of sexual interaction between persons of the opposite sex.\u201d It also stems from a general \u201cfailure to recognize and understand that sexual love is not about self-gratification and pleasure,\u201d but about \u201centering into a relationship with another person which is by its nature capable of being fruitful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn some ways homosexual relationships try to imitate [the marital relationship between a man and a woman], but that\u2019s all it is: an imitation,\u201d he said. \u201cSome semblance of union which can never be fruitful or productive cannot really be an expression of love, it can only be an expression of self-gratification.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While supporters \u201cmay not recognize this,\u201d said Vasa, calling homosexual relationships by the name of marriage amounts to a \u201ccorruption\u201d of an institution reserved for a union that is \u201cfaithful, permanent, and child-oriented.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMarriage is unique, it has its own internal dynamism and internal definition, and you cannot change the nature of a homosexual relationship by calling it \u2018marriage,\u2019\u201d he said. \u201cIt is still not marriage, because marriage has its own identity, and <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SEATTLE, June 22, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) &#8211; Supporters of gay \u201cmarriage\u201d fail to understand both the purpose of sex and the nature of human beings, said one Catholic bishop last week.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-same-sex-attraction","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11431"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11432,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11431\/revisions\/11432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}