Questions for backers of same-sex marriage

Archbishop Timothy Costelloe of Perth has called on Catholics not to condemn or cut off family or friends with same-sex attraction but has defended marriage between a man and a woman as a fundamental building block of society, writes Mark Brolly. In a pastoral letter, the Salesian prelate wrote that many Catholics had family members and friends who experienced same-sex attraction. “We do not want to condemn them,” he wrote, but “the question of ‘same-sex marriage’ is not about condemnation, rejection or discrimination. It is about  the nature of marriage.”