Vatican Strengthens Ties with Evangelicals and Mormons Against Gay Marriage

[theHandpuppet]

Cross posted from Religion Group.

TIME Magazine
Vatican Strengthens Ties with Evangelicals and Mormons Against Gay Marriage
Elizabeth Dias
Nov. 20, 2014
    
New alliances formed in Rome this week

In a month when papal conversation about marriage has been all the rage, the Vatican is enlisting a new set of allies to support its commitment to marriage between a man and a woman: American evangelicals and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

This week the Vatican hosted a three-day, international, interreligious colloquium called Humanum, “The Complementarity of Man and Woman: An International Colloquium.” Its goal was to “propose anew the beauty of the relationship between the man and the woman.” Speakers came from nearly two dozen countries and a variety of religious traditions, including Muslims, Jews, Sikhs and Taoists.

The presence of American evangelicals and the LDS Church was particularly notable. Rick Warren, pastor of Saddleback Church, and Russell Moore, president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, each gave speeches, and representatives from the Heritage Foundation and the Family Research Council in Washington attended. President Henry Eyring of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ first presidency spoke and Elder Tom Perry of the LDS’s Quorum of the Twelve also joined. In the United States, this trio of faiths has worked together to stand against the government’s Affordable Care Act’s contraception mandate, but it was the first time they were coming together at the Vatican to talk about marriage.

The colloquium rallied around the theological concept of complementarianism, the belief that men and women have different roles in a marriage and religious leadership—husbands are spiritual leaders, and wives submit to them in love. To be “complementary” is to complete or fill the lack in the other thing. It opposes egalitarianism, the theological belief that men and women are equal in all respects in marriage and in religious leadership positions. Traditional Catholic, evangelical, and LDS belief interprets the Bible to support a complementarian relational structure. That may explain why mainline Protestant traditions that interpret the Bible to an egalitarian end—Presbyterian, Episcopal, United Church of Christ—were not featured at the event....

MORE at https://time.com/3597245/vatican-evangelicals-mormons-gay-marriage/

[dbackjon]

1. But the Pope is super groovy and loving and different!!

Guess not - same intolerant asshole as the previous 200

[Dawson Leery]

2. Roman Catholicism, Evangelicals, Mormons : The Satanic Trinity.

[nomorenomore08]

3. So much for being the "progressive" Pope.

The supposed shift looks more like window dressing than "baby steps," increasingly.