When Antje Mahler told her parents in her teens that she was a lesbian, her family struggled to come to terms with her sexuality, the Religion News website reports today (June 2, 2021).
"Your religion is the first thing they take away from you when you come out of the "closet," said Mahler, who was raised Catholic in Bavaria, Germany's largest and traditionally most Catholic state. "It's as if when you're queer, you're not allowed to be religious anymore."
But Mahler was heartened by a campaign led by priests, deacons, and laity at 110 Catholic churches in Germany to bless same-sex couples, in defiance of a recent statement issued by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith at the Vatican that such blessings were "not legitimate" and that same-sex unions are "not ordered to the Creator's plan."
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