CLGS

A wide range of books and other resources on marriage and family, both scholarly and for
general audiences, have been produced over the last ten years. The following is a short list

Editorial from the National Catholic Reporter, February 20, 2004

The Roman Catholic Caucus of the Lesbian and Gay Christian Movement held a meeting in St Anne's Church, Soho on Sunday 3rd August 2003 to respond to the UK government's proposals concerning same-sex partnership rights. This was an impromptu theological/ pastoral contribution by James Alison, put into writing after the event.

(from The Tablet, 9 August, 2003. Reprinted with Permission)

Last week the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith issued a harshly worded document describing the state recognition of same-sex unions as the "legalisation of evil". A Boston theologian reads between its lines.

This Vatican document argues against any legal recognition of same-sex by stating that "Legal recognition of homosexual unions or placing them on the same level as marriage would mean not only the approval of deviant behaviour, with the consequence of making it a model in present-day society, but would also obscure basic values which belong to the common inheritance of humanity."

The following text is based closely on a talk given by Ralph Hexter on November 16, 1994, at the Koenig Alumni Center of the University at Colorado at Boulder. It was sponsored by CU-Boulder's GLB Resource Center and its LesBiGay Alumni Association.