The Vatican issued a decree Monday stating the Catholic Church will not bless same-sex unions as God “cannot bless sin.” What a shocker.The move caused both the Catholic Church and the Vatican to trend on Twitter, which can almost certainly never be a great sign.Pope Frances stamped his approval on the two-page explanation put out by the Vatican’s orthodoxy office, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.The document explains that while the church can welcome and bless gay people, it draws the line at healthy, committed relationships.
God bless.Those unions, it argues, are not part of God’s plan and are most certainly not part of the institution of marriage.God “does not and cannot bless sin: He blesses sinful man, so that he may.