Why does the Catholic Church reject same-sex marriage?

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Catholic AnswerUnlike the various protestant groups, the Catholic Church CANNOT make up doctrine or change its doctrine. When a priest get up in the pulpit to preach, the ONLY thing he is supposed to be preaching is God's revealed Word. The beliefs of the Catholic Church have all been revealed to Her by God, she can only accept them and try to live with them in humble love and acceptance. The Catholic Church never decided to reject same-sex marriage, it simply accepted the sacrament of marriage from Her Divine Redeemer, Our Blessed Lord, Jesus Christ. The Catholic Church is the Bride of Christ, and His Mystical Body. The mission of the Catholic Church is to help people recognize Our Blessed Savior as their God in an attempt to follow the way of life He has laid out for us. To accept God and His Way is to accept an eternity of joy and peace in heaven. To reject God and His Way for a few short years of pleasure on earth is to accept an eternity of pain and loneliness in hell. The Catholic Church thus is unable to support "same-sex marriage" because that would be supporting the opposite of what It is here to do: proclaim the love of God for His people, and show them how to attain heaven.

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Attached below are some documents issued by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith when it was headed by Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger before he was elected to the chair of Peter as Pope Benedict XVI. This reflect orthodox Christian teaching and the doctrine of the Church as it has been held for the entire twenty plus centuries of its existence. In particular the Holy Father noted, in his releases, that all people, including homosexuals are made in the image and likeness of God, and that we are all responsible for our fellow man, and his welfare. Therefore homosexual individuals are to be treated with compassion and respect. However, as with all sin, and all sexual acts that are performed outside of marriage and outside of the dual objectives of God, to further the love between a man and a woman, AND to beget new life - all other sexual activities are sins; and, in particular, homosexual acts are "gravely disordered." Thus the Holy Father is trying to instruct both those who are trying to find a way to deal with their disordered passions, while at the same time those who are dealing with the homosexuals, whether in their family, their neighborhood, friends, or country. The Catholic Church can never condone sin either in the homosexual or in the person dealing with the homosexual. Please see the links below.
The Catholic Church recognizes marriage as something that cannot be changed by mere social convention. Marriage is that union between a man and a woman that can be found in every human society (exceptions are few and far between, and the difference is usually in that some cultures have accepted polygamy) and ordered to the good of the spouses and the continuation of that society and culture. A union between two men or two women is outside of this definition because it excludes by definition the second aspect. Catholics typically resist even calling it marriage, seeing it as absurd as calling bacon a vegetable because a group believes it is their right to include it in a vegetarian menu.