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by Jon Brown, Christian Today:
Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Müller claimed during a recent interview that Jesus would likely be imprisoned in Western societies today for affirming biological sex and traditional marriage.
“Jesus also contradicts ideologically these ways [that] want to relativize or even destroy a marriage of men and women and the family of the parents with their own children,” the German cardinal told GBNews host Jacob Rees-Mogg.
Referencing Matthew 19, Müller noted how the Pharisees attempted to entrap Jesus by interrogating Him over the issue of marriage, but that Jesus pushed back by affirming marriage as between a man and woman, as well as God’s original design of male and female.
“I believe that today, Jesus would not be condemned only because He was the Messiah,” Müller said.
“But He would in Canada or the United States or European countries go to prison because He spoke out the truth about the marriage between a man and a woman.”
Müller’s comments came in response to a question from Rees-Mogg regarding the state of the Catholic Church, especially in the wake of the recent controversy over Joseph E. Strickland being removed from his post as bishop of Tyler, Texas, and Cardinal Raymond Burke being stripped of his cardinal salary and Vatican apartment.
Both traditionalist men have been outspoken critics of Pope Francis.
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