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‘Gay law’ could destroy family unit: Cardinal
Monday, 24 August 2009
Cardinal Sean Brady has warned Irish legislators that they are directly challenging the Republic’s constitutional protection for the family and leaving registrars of marriage open to prosecution by planning to introduce civil partnership for gay and lesbian couples.
He said the people of Ireland would soon have to choose to “stand clearly on the side of Christ or depart from him”.
The cardinal claimed that “what the government is planning will hugely change people's concept of the family.
Nevertheless, marriage between a man and a woman will always remain the ideal environment in which to raise children.
“Any government that undermines such an environment could hardly be said to be promoting the common good”.
He said that during the next Dail term politicians and citizens will be asked to make a fundamental choice about the future of marriage and the family in Ireland.
“They will be asked to approve legislation and policy which, among other things, will make same-sex partnerships equal in status to marriage, with the same benefits in tax and welfare as married couples — the only difference being the right to adopt — will give cohabiting same-sex, or opposite-sex, partners the same status as marriage, after they have lived together for a short period, will remove 'marital status' from key legislation and public documentation and replace it with 'civil status', thus directly challenging the constitutional recognition that marriage is 'a moral institution possessing inalienable and imprescriptible rights, antecedent and superior to all positive law'.”
Cardinal Brady claimed that any Registrar of Marriage who, in conscience, declines to officiate at same-sex 'weddings', will be guilty of an offence.
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How can we continue to listen to the Church on moral issues when there is yet another example of the way the Church is acting as a directly malevolent force in the world. Families headed by gay couples will not go away just because of the Church's repeated attacks on these families. (Much as the Church would want to destroy them) These loving families do not deserve the destructive will the Church is aiming at them.
Churchmen should leave our children and our families alone to live their lives without priests interfering with them.
Posted by Daniel | 29.08.09, 23:43 GMT
The Church is against the idea of using the word "mariage" for gay couples, and they manipulate as much as they can to stop people of allowing gay mariages as it is done in Canada. When France was puting new laws in place, it had to use an other word to please them, it changes the fact that a gay couple can live together, they can live a will between them, but cannot rise a kid
Posted by jean-michel | 26.08.09, 09:29 GMT
The other week in England, a honest human who was a priest had to resign account he told that he was a father of a new child. I ask cardinal Brady who is the greater offender of God's law, this priest,the religious who abused children, religious leaders that cover up children abuse crimes, or a gay couple that live together under a mutual legal contract?
Posted by phl | 24.08.09, 16:29 GMT
Wouldnt this man be better serrving the community by properly addressing the abuse and neglect of children and vulnerable people under the supposed 'care' of his church and bringing those responsible for that abuse to justice?
Posted by Malachy Mulligan | 24.08.09, 15:50 GMT
Here we go again :Victims ! Why is the simplest statement of a truth always construed as an attack on sodomy, and homosexuals, and the culture of promiscuity. Hedonism is a matter of personal choice, which all are welcome to pursue. The happiest context for family existence is within the protection of a loving father and loving mother. Huffing and puffing , and quoting exceptions is fortunately not going to change this.
Posted by Malachy McAnespie | 24.08.09, 14:33 GMT
Wind your neck in Cardinal Brady, its not the dark ages any more.
Its people in love, wanting to show their love for one-another. promising to be faithful & honour one-another. What is teh sin in that?
The Cardinal may be surprised to hear that, in a way i admit to being homophobic. I am, a hetrosexual man, married with a 7 year old girl. The thought of two blogs having "relations" creeps me out. BUT that is just the sex part, and none of my business.
Two of my closest friend are gay, and have been in a very loving relationship for years. If you would spend time with them you would see that this is a very healthy loving and beautiul relationship, far more so than most hetrosexual couples that i know. I think that love like that should be celebrated, and encouraged, not "turned away by Jesus. What a terrible and arrogant thing to say.
I will pray that the cardinal can find understanding and compassion in his heart, as he needs it.
Posted by Andy | 24.08.09, 12:05 GMT
A democracy or a theocracy? This will be a good test.
Posted by Will Hawkes | 24.08.09, 11:23 GMT
Where does he get off suggesting that this law undermines the family ? What utter rot. There's a small percentage of people (10% say ?) who are gay. That's it. They don't want to undermine anything, just live their lives like the rest of us. Let's make it possible for that to happen and then leave them to it.
Posted by Yip | 24.08.09, 09:45 GMT
Who are the church to lecture on morals when everyone knows that religion has been the cause of millions of innocent deaths over the years - and it's still going on! Whatever happened to live and let live. I fail to see how giving people basic human rights is a threat to 'the family'. Seems the church wheel out this tired old argument at every chance when something doesn't appear to be going their way.
Posted by Mike | 24.08.09, 08:53 GMT
When is the church going to realize that they are way out of step with reality. Religion itself is now recognised as "child abuse". This has come about from the rigid attitudes of those that follow the fundamentalist viewpoint. To any thinking person, Christian or not, those attitudes should have been put to rest a long time ago. To continue to promote 'hate' is in itself a crime, let alone a 'sin'.
Posted by Leigh | 24.08.09, 08:31 GMT
Has it ever dawned on you and your church that many people of this Ireland are sick and tired of being lectured by these so called "guardians
of morality"? Concentrate your efforts in cleaning up your legion of pedophile (child molesters) priests before you dare lecture us on morality.
Posted by Dan | 24.08.09, 03:47 GMT
What doesn't "christianity" find someone else to pick on instead of bashing gays. I'd hardly call bashing gays christian like. They should be ashamed of themselves acting like spoiled little children looking for a fight.
Posted by Greg | 24.08.09, 03:10 GMT