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WCC Public Policy Positions: Uphold the Innate Equality, Dignity, and Complementarity of Male and Female.
Here we elaborate on each of the WCC's 2023 Public Policy Positions. The complete document can be found below.
Uphold the innate equality, dignity, and complementarity of male and female. Men and women are biologically different from the moment of conception and possess equal dignity. Wisconsin must uphold these two scientific and moral realities and defend those who seek to live them out. At the same time, all who experience gender dysphoria must be treated with compassion, sensitivity, and respect.
The Church teaches that God created us out of love as male and female, and gives man and woman an equal personal dignity. "Each of the two sexes is an image of the power and tenderness of God, with equal dignity though in a different way." (Catechism of the Catholic Church, 2335).
Each human person is a body-soul totality created for authentic love. “Sexuality affects all aspects of the human person in the unity of his body and soul. It especially concerns affectivity, the capacity to love and to procreate, and in a more general way the aptitude for forming bonds of communion with others” (Catechism of the Catholic Church, 2332).
Our bodies and souls are gifts to be cherished and not manipulated. “Everyone, man and woman, should acknowledge and accept his sexual identity. Physical, moral, and spiritual difference and complementarities are oriented towards the goods of marriage and the flourishing of family life. The harmony of the couple and of society depends in part on the way in which the complementarities, needs, and mutual support between the sexes are lived out” (Catechism of the Catholic Church, 2333).
Whenever persons feel disconnected from their given bodies, the family, church, and community must respond with compassion, sensitivity, and respect – while always pointing to the fundamental truth, goodness, and unity of God’s creation and searching for ways to restore that unity.
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