Washington D.C., Apr 25, 2015 / 13:59 pm
A diverse crowd of thousands of people from across the U.S. gathered in front of the US Capitol to speak and stand in defense of marriage on Saturday.
"We have too long taken for granted the gift of marriage as the union of one man and one woman," Archbishop Joseph Kurtz of Louisville, Ky. and President of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops told CNA.
The Archbishop cautioned that society's view of seeing marriage only as "an adult friendship" looses sight of the "sacrificial love" and "one flesh union that Jesus Himself spoke of" that form the basis for marriage as an institution.
"We have not cultivated the basis for sacrificial love but have, in a sense, fallen victims of a culture that tends to talk about adult choices and options," he explained.