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Called the Catholic Church's teaching on homosexuality 'destructive'
In 2023, McElroy wrote in an article for America that the Church should explore more ways to admit LGBT people and divorced Catholics to communion, an act of "radical inclusion."
He has also argued that the Church should not focus on the "distinction between orientation and activity" when offering pastoral care to LGBT individuals.
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According to McElroy, this approach "inevitably suggests dividing the L.G.B.T. community into those who refrain from sexual activity and those who do not."
In an interview with America published in 2016, McElroy described the Catechism of the Catholic Church's characterization of homosexual acts as "intrinsically disordered" as "very destructive language that I think we should not use pastorally."
After the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 2015 that same-sex marriage is a constitutional right, McElroy issued a statement acknowledging that "the Catholic Church, along with other faith traditions, teaches that the nature of marriage and the family cannot be redefined by society, as God is the author of marriage and its corresponding gift of co-creating human life."
McElroy has also referred to same-sex unions as "loving and familial relationships which enrich the lives of so many gay men and women who are our sons and daughters, our sisters and brothers, and ultimately our fellow pilgrims on this earthly journey of life."
Samantha Kamman is a reporter for The Christian Post. She can be reached at: samantha.kamman@christianpost.com. Follow her on Twitter: @Samantha_Kamman
