Gifts are to be accepted and shared in a unitive manner. That manner is loving, life-giving, and life-affirming according to the life teaching of Christ. In many countries in Europe, however "apart from the Italian Catholic church there is hardly any organized religious opposition to the rights of gay Europeans. Same-sex unions are a reality in Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and the Netherlands. France and Germany have both enacted strong domestic-partnership laws, their capitals both have gay mayors, and gay soldiers serve openly in many NATO armies" (Kaiser, 2002). In the United States it is the opposite, gay marriages are illegal no matter how many cities elect for "civil unions." Even the president has gone as far as to define "marriage" as an institution between a "male and female only.".
Theories.
The movement for justice for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) persons in religious institutions emerged in the 1950s and 1960s when some gay and lesbian clergy and religious leaders came out and sought affirmation from their religious bodies. Though most of these early pioneers were cast out of their religious institutions, they launched movements that expanded rapidly and widely to become one of the most contentious issues captivating U.S. religion at the end of the twentieth century ( LGBT Religious Archives Network). .
Catholic teaching on homosexuality from the National Conference of Catholic Bishops has stated: "Basing itself on Sacred Scripture, which presents homosexual acts as acts of grave depravity, tradition has always declared that "homosexual acts are gravely disordered." They are contrary to the natural law. They close the sexual act to the gift of life. They do not proceed from a genuine affective and sexual complementarity. Under no circumstances can they be approved" (Always Our Children). In 1969 a Roman Catholic priest, Father Patrick Nidorf, felt ethical problems and identity with the Church frequently bothered homosexual Catholics.
