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"German bishops propose redefining ‘fertility’ to include same-sex couples"
"The working document of the German bishops’ 'synodal path' to be voted on next month proposes to redefine marriage as only one among many other ways 'to live love and sexuality.' An earlier working document, released last year, had made similar claims but was never put to a vote.
In one section, the four-page document states, 'The openness for the passing on of life is not decisive for each individual [sexual] act, but to be affirmed in the overall course of a binding and long-term partnership.'
The document tries to redefine 'the concept of fertility' to include not just 'the openness to new life,' but also 'a social and personal dimension.' Accordingly, '[e]ven same-sex couples and other couples who cannot give birth to a new life have the potential for a fertile life.'
Additionally, basing itself on the principle that 'man’s dignity is inviolable,' the drafters of the document 'regard personal self-determination ... lived in Christian freedom as the central principle of order for the shaping of human sexuality. This means that people are allowed to say ‘no’ to unwanted sexual acts and ‘yes’ to a relationship with a self-chosen responsible partner.'
The document does not clarify that according to Catholic teaching, a man can choose only a woman, and vice versa, in marriage, 'for the shaping of human sexuality.' Instead, it says, 'We see marriage as the preferred but not the only way to live love and sexuality in a relationship.'...
Notably, the document did not comment on masturbation. A passage on that particular action was part of the first working document for the synodal path last year, claiming that the 'joyful experience of one’s own body (self sex) can also mean a responsible approach to one’s own sexuality.'"
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