Questions and Answers about Marriage and Same-Sex Union

The two phrases delve into the contemporary debate of same sex sum. The first one presents the conservative orthodox spot of the Catholic faith on same sex union while the second article presents an unorthodox view which is more liberal and accepting. Both article advocate a stand on the same issue and aims to spread the good news of their stand. The two articles tackle the issue of same sex union by giving their own definition of marriage.The orthodox view argues that marriage, as instituted by God, is a faithful, exclusive, lifelong union of a man and a adult female joined in an intimate community of life and love and that same sex union is an altogether different thing from marriage since it does not contain the definition. They say that it is not based on the natural complementarity of male and female it cannot cooperate with God to create new life and the natural purpose of familiar union cannot be achieved by a same-sex union.The liberal view points otherwise saying that Marriage can be defined as the unique and particular form of committed friendship and this does not say that the persons have to be heterosexually attracted, thus people of the same sex can still be married. This tell apart view is an interesting point for further comparison and contrasting. Both authors use the bible as their authoritative source of arguments. The USCCB in sum claims that what is right is what is create verbally in the bible, Prof.Maguire on his part claims that the bible as a historical account is not an account of what is right, it sometimes contain accounts which recommends what should not be make as depicted by the lesson of particular stories like in the stories about slavery. The liberal view purports that many Catholic theologians agree now with Protestant and Jewish theologians that same sex unions can be moral, healthy, and holy and that many Catholic people are living in same sex unions and adopting children and still practicing their Catholic faith h owever .While the USCCB continues to campaign against the equation of same sex unions to marriage and urges followers to keep their opinions in line with the teachings of their faith and of the bible. While using some the same source, the bible and the interpretation of the word of God, both authors argue in different directions both of which does not directly rebut each other.