Ben shapiro on gay marriage

Ben Shapiro’s views on Gay Marriage have been consistent in that he opposes the legalization of gay marriage within the larger, libertarian position, that the Government should “not be in the marriage business” at all. Ben Shapiro (Editor-in-Chief, The Daily Wire) joins Dave Rubin to discuss his views on gay marriage, gun control, and his debate with Piers Morgan on CNN.

Daily Wire co-founder Ben Shapiro testified before the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday over free speech, government media censorship, abortion and same-sex marriage during a controversial hearing on Capitol Hill. Ben Shapiro says if the Supreme Court was “worth its salt” they would overturn the Obergefell decision from that legalized gay marriage.

On Wednesday’s episode of The Ben Shapiro. What is Ben Shapiro's stance on gay marriage. I know that he always just says something along the lines of "I think that gay marriage shouldn't be illegal because I believe government should have no say in marriage at all." How does that practically play out, and what role should government play. Hey, everyone. Welcome to the Counsel of Trent podcast. But Ben Shapiro asked me to come on to his show to give my perspective, so I thought this would be a good opportunity to discuss this issue and the Catholic faith in a broader way to his audience.

The church has not changed its teaching on marriage, and it has prohibited the kinds of things being advocated for in Germany, like formal blessings in the ritual or liturgy for so-called same-sex couples. One thing I should have added in our interview is the scandal of this document blurring the lines between blessing individuals who are in a sinful relationship so as to lead them closer to God and creating a situation where it looks like a priest is blessing the sinful relationship itself.

Even the phrase gay couple in the document can create this impression and so it should have been avoided. The danger is that permission for a spontaneous blessing that could be okay for people in a sinful relationship who genuinely seek after God will become permission for so-called same-sex couples to purposefully seek out these blessings simply to validate their own sinful desires. So my overall summary would be this.

The document in principle is Orthodox because it speaks of sinners seeking spontaneous blessings in order to live better lives. So while the document is orthodox in principle, one can object to its effects in practice because it could lead to lots of abuse. He blesses sinful man so that He may recognize that He is part of his plan of love and allow himself to be changed by Him. He, in fact, God in fact, takes us as we are, but never leaves us as we are.

Joining us on the line is Trent Horn.

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Trent, thanks so much for joining the show. So all the headlines from the media are that the Pope basically just greenlit same-sex marriage, or at the very least that he committed to allowing blessings for same-sex couples. Giving a blessing to a sinner is not really the issue. The real question is, what exactly is this letter doing that broadens anything out?

But to put strict parameters around this, the other context related to this letter is the fact that the Pope and the Vatican for the past few years have had to deal with the Catholic Church in Germany offering formal blessings. So I think for a lot of people to understand this document, we have to look at three things: the sacrament of marriage, formal or liturgical blessings and then spontaneous blessings. So the document is very clear just as it has been in an Amoris laetitia previous document from the Pope that marriage is only for men and women.

Sexual activity, as it says in this document, is only for men and women in a monogamous relationship open to the generation of children. That has not changed, that cannot change.

It says that to avoid any form of confusion or scandal, the prayer of blessing given by a couple, it cannot be done in any way that resembles a wedding or a marriage in any way like that. But then there are spontaneous blessings. Like you said, well, what has really changed? Well, like I said, the church is a global church. There was a document recently released from the Vatican underscoring the fact that there are parts of South America where priests will not baptize children of single mothers.

So I think the church is wanting to invite people who are seeking out God in spite of their sins and trying to put up these parameters. But at the same time, I found the document very vague and ambiguous. It never mentions the word repentance, for example. So I think many people misunderstand the document, but they also have legitimate grounds to be critical of the things that it lacks.

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