‘Grounded teaching’ or ‘act of cruelty’? Christian leaders react to the Vatican rejecting same-sex marriage

By Michael Gryboski, Mainline Church Editor Tuesday, March 16, 2021

Kevin Miller

Kevin Miller, professor of moral theology at Franciscan University of Steubenville, Ohio, issued a statement expressing agreement with the Vatican's position. 

Miller pointed out that the Catholic Church “has taught, and here continues to teach, that such acts are intrinsically disordered."

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Miller stated that "[t]his teaching is so grounded in Scripture and Tradition that it cannot be otherwise.”

“'Intrinsically' means that, as the response says, no matter what positive elements (like friendship and the care for another that goes with it) there might also happen to be in a particular same-sex relationship, the relationship as a whole, insofar as it includes same-sex acts, is 'not ordered to the Creator’s plan,’” said Miller.

“To bless something that is intrinsically at odds with God’s plan would be a kind of contradiction in terms, an abuse of what a blessing, by its nature, is. It is not so much forbidden as impossible.”