When Bishop Georg Bätzing was interviewed about the vote by German bishops to bless same sex unions, the interviewer challenged him about the rationale behind the determination of the bishops to take this schismatic path.
Bätzing stated:
"Homosexual couples, couples who are divorced and remarried, couples asking for a blessing - that’s something we are going to do here."
The interviewer replied, trying to remind him of the context and the obvious implication of episcopal disobedience, and asked him point blank if they were going to defy the pope.
