The UK gay Humanist charity the
Pink Triangle Trust (PTT) – owner of this blog – has slammed Cardinal Keith O’Brien’s
condemnation of gay (reported yesterday in Pink
Triangle) marriage as totally predictable and bizarre.
O’Brien, the leader of the
Catholic Church in Scotland, has said the plans for gay marriage are a “grotesque
subversion of a universally accepted human right”, and that the idea of
redefining marriage, which the UK Prime Minister David Cameron has said he
supports, would “shame the United Kingdom in the eyes of the world”.
George Broadhead, the PTT’s
secretary and a veteran gay activist, said: “Given the Roman Catholic Church’s
well-known views and policy on gay sexual relationships and rights, including
Civil Partnership, not to mention Cardinal O’Brien’s previous homophobic
outbursts, his latest are totally predictable.
“His contention that gay
marriage would shame the UK in the eyes of the world is also bizarre. Has the
cardinal not heard that gay marriage has already been legalised in no fewer
than ten countries: Argentina, Belgium, Canada, Iceland, Norway, Portugal,
South Africa, Spain, Sweden and the Netherlands? I am not aware that any of
these countries have suffered shame or any sort of pariah status as a result.
This just shows how out of touch with reality the Roman Catholic Church has
become.”
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