Tim Kaine: Catholic Church Will Evolve on Same-sex Marriage
Michael O'Loughlin | Sep 11 2016 - 1:22am
Democratic vice presidential hopeful Sen. Tim Kaine said on Saturday night that his support for same-sex marriage is driven in part by his Catholic faith, and that he expects the church could change its views like he did.
Delivering the keynote address at a Washington, D.C., fundraiser for the Human Rights Campaign in front of about 3,600 people, Kaine called himself “a devout Catholic” and said that even as he supported non-discrimination laws for gays and lesbians as lieutenant governor and then governor of Virginia, he nonetheless still “believed that marriage was something different.”
Part of that reasoning came from his lifelong Catholic faith, which teaches that marriage is a union of one man and one woman. But Kaine’s opposition to same-sex marriage was challenged by relationships with friends and pressure from his children.
“I knew gay couples as friends,” he said. “I knew them to be great neighbors, I knew them to be great parents to beautiful kids.”
http://americamagazine.org/content/dispatches/tim-kaine-catholic-church-will-evolve-same-sex-marriage
Well. There's no reason for the Church to oppose civil same sex marriages now. The Church's only say on this is is in regard to sacramental marriages, which civil marriage laws don't affect at all.