Bavaria Drops Challenge to Legalization of Gay ‘Marriage’ Citing Comparable Changes in Church

LifeSite News ^ | 3/15/18 | Maike Hickson

[marshmallow]

MUNICH, March 15, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) -- The traditionally Catholic German state of Bavaria has decided to drop its plan to challenge a June 2017 parliamentary decision to legalize same-sex “marriages” nationwide. The decision comes after two legal opinions were written for Bavaria pointing out that many countries in the world have legalized same-sex “marriage.” The Bavarian State Chancellor, in his white paper for the March 6th cabinet meeting refers to the fact that even representatives of the Catholic Church are now in the process of “carefully opening themselves up to a change.”

On March 6th, the Government of Bavaria decided to drop the plan to approach the Federal Constitutional Court to challenge the recent legalization of same-sex “marriage.” The Government of Bavaria had ordered, at the cost of 40,000 euro, two legal opinions on the constitutionality of same-sex “marriage.” Both expert reports came to the conclusion that they were not unconstitutional.

According to the German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, the handout for the 6 March cabinet meeting, as prepared by Bavarian State Chancellor Marcel Huber (CSU) claims that the “chances for success” of such a constitutional challenge are “low.” The legislature, Huber writes, has “not stepped over the limits of his legal competences.”

Because of the changes in society, the paper argues, heterosexuality is not any more an “exclusive structural marker of marriage.” That such a change has taken place, he argues, can also be seen in the fact that other states have now already introduced same-sex “marriages” and that other Constitutional Courts have likewise approved of them. “Additionally, the topic is said to have lost its explosive nature. Even representatives of the Catholic Church are 'in the process of carefully opening themselves up to a change.'”

[faithhopecharity]

And Rakitin doesn’t like God, oof, how he doesn’t! That’s the sore spot in all of them! But they conceal it. They lie. They pretend. ‘What, are you going to push for that in the department of criticism?’ I asked. ‘Well, they won’t let me do it openly,’ he said, and laughed. ‘But,’ I asked, ‘how will man be after that? WITHOUT GOD and the future life? It means EVERYTHING IS PERMITTED NOW, one can do anything?’ ‘Didn’t you know?’ he said. And he laughed. ‘Everything is permitted to the intelligent man,’ he said. ‘The intelligent man knows how to catch crayfish, but you killed and fouled it up,’ he said, ‘and now you’re rotting in prison!’ He said that to me. A natural-born swine! I once used to throw the likes of him out—well, and now I listen to them. (Dostoevsky, the Brothers Karamazov, capitalization added)

[grobdriver]

representatives of the Catholic Church are 'in the process of carefully opening themselves up to a change.'

Ya know, guys - just because "everyone" is doing it doesn't mean you have to.

Cowards.

[vooch]

A very significant election for Bavarian provincial parliament in Oct. Germany has a real federal system. The provinces have real power.

The ruling party; the Christian Social Union, is merely setting aside controversies to win another majority.

The CSU is mostly conservative and traditional family values.

[tntraveler]

refers to the fact that even representatives of the Catholic Church are now in the process of “carefully opening themselves up to a change.”

I sense a butt-whoopin' comin' for some "representatives".

[fieldmarshaldj]

Blasphemous.

[beejaa]

“I have gay parents.

“I spend most of my time at my best friends house. I hang out with her Dad cuz I never had one and he is this awesome guy. My friends Dad is a lot like Charlie from Twilight! I cried when I read about Bellas father in the books and in all his scenes in the movies. Mostly at my friends house it feels like I can just be myself. Someone has to say it cuz I dont hear it but gay parents are selfish in a way. They dont think what its going to be like for me to live in their world.

“Am I the only one who feels this way? Am I a bad daughter because I wish I had a Dad? Is there anyone else who has 2 Moms or 2 Dads who wonders what it would be like if they were born into a normal family? Is there anyone else who wants to be able to use the word normal without getting a lecture on what is normal???

“I don’t know my real father and never will. Its weird but I miss him. I miss this man I will never know. Is it wrong for me to long for a father like my friends have? She has two brothers I play basketball with all the time. It feels so amazing to be included in their family. When I am there I think this is what its like to be in a family that has a Mom and a Dad. Then I have have to go home to my own world. I just dont fit in it anymore.

https://anonymousus.org/child-of-lesbian-parents/

[Mrs. Don-o]

I certainly hope so.