The Omaha Archdiocese's Response to the Supreme Court

In response to the Supreme Court's decisions yesterday, the Omaha Archdiocese had this statement:

Those struggling with same-sex attraction should be assured that the Catholic Church is and always will be welcoming of any person who seeks a deeper relationship with Jesus Christ.

The Catholic Church’s clear teaching is that everyone should be treated with respect, dignity and love and condemn any form of unjust discrimination.

The Church strongly affirm that marriage, as authored by God, is the joining of one man and one woman in a lifelong, loving union that is open to children, ordered for the good of those children and the spouses themselves.

It is disappointing that the Court did not affirm that the federal government has an obligation to promote traditional marriage, its contribution to the common good and the family, and can therefore justly give married couples rights and benefits it does not extend to others. Fortunately, the Court did not hold that the Constitution requires states to recognize so-called same-sex “marriage.” Thus, the Court’s decision was not based on a constitutional defect in the definition of marriage as one man and one woman.