Last updated on May 6th, 2021 at 07:36 am<\/p>\n
\u201cExamine and Change the Church.\u201d<\/strong> Under this headline the diocese of Essen (in Western Germany) published a video (on Facebook<\/a> and YouTube<\/a>) in which employees of the diocese speak out for the acceptance of homosexual \u201cmarriages\u201d and the abolition of the Church\u2019s moral teaching on sexuality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI am gay, Catholic, married to my husband since 2004 and have been working for the Catholic Church since 1996. Many of our friends always ask: how can this be? And honestly, sometimes it tears me apart to work for an institution that rejects me and my sexuality \u2013 our marriage,\u201d says Rainer Teuber, staff member of the Diocese of Essen, in the video.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Not only is acceptance of acting upon homosexual inclinations part of the program for “Changing the Church,” but also acceptance of fornication in the form of premarital cohabitation as well as communion for remarried divorcees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe Church hurts people,” alleges Sabrina Kuhlmann, pastoral advisor of the diocese. “All those who are not heterosexual; all those who do not marry but still want to live together; all those whose marriages have failed and who dare a new attempt, they all do not conform to the Church norm, no matter how faithful they are.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n