We believe all human life is of inestimable value and sacred in all stages, from conception to natural death. Every individual life is worth more to God than the entire material universe. We are commanded by God to protect and defend human life regardless of its condition – pre-born babies, persons with physical or intellectual disabilities, the immigrant, the homeless, the elderly, the sick, the suffering, and the dying. As such, DMA supports building a culture of life. This includes upholding the Church’s “unchangeable” teaching that direct abortion, as well as formal cooperation in abortion, is gravely evil, and that “[t]he inalienable right to life of every innocent human individual” should be “a constitutive element of a civil society and its legislation.” (Ps. 139 13-16, 1 Cor. 6:19; CCC, 2258-2279, 2270-2273).

We believe the term “marriage” means the uniting of one man and one woman in a single, exclusive, and permanent union.  We also believe God intends sexual intimacy to occur only in marriage as a means of expressing the love and fidelity of husband and wife and participating in God’s gift of procreation.  Living life according to God’s plan for marriage leads us closer to his love, while misusing our sexuality through unchastity (e.g. pornography, fornication, homosexual behavior, cohabitation, etc.) hurts us and leads us away from God.  (Gen. 2:18-25, Eph. 5:31-33, CCC 2337-2365) 

We believe God wonderfully and immutably creates each person as male or female.  These two distinct, complementary sexes together reflect the mystery of God.  Rejection of one’s biological sex is a rejection of natural law, biological anatomy, and God’s plan for the human person made in His image.  (Gen. 1:26-27, Matt. 19:4-6, CCC 2333-2334)