Vatican signals options for protecting gay couples

[cbayer]

http://www.religionnews.com/2013/02/04/vatican-signals-options-for-protecting-gay-couples/

Alessandro Speciale | Feb 4, 2013

VATICAN CITY (RNS) A high-ranking Vatican official on Monday (Feb. 4) voiced support for giving unmarried couples some kind of legal protection even as he reaffirmed the Catholic Church’s opposition to same-sex marriage.

Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, head of the Pontifical Council for the Family, also said the church should do more to protect gays and lesbians from discrimination in countries where homosexuality is illegal.

In his first Vatican press conference since his appointment as the Catholic Church’s “minister” for family, Paglia conceded that there are several kinds of “cohabitation forms that do not constitute a family,” and that their number is growing.

Paglia suggested that nations could find “private law solutions” to help individuals who live in non-matrimonial relations, “to prevent injustice and make their life easier.”

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[Angry Dragon]

1. Who does he think he is to decide what a family is??

[dlwickham]

2. this isn't even separate but equal

it's separate but highly unequal

couples in many countries can go the expensive legal route such as contracts, wills, etc. and there's still a chance that the family of the deceased partner could fight the surviving partner and win

it's happened before in the US and I'm sure it could happen in other countries as well

I wish the Vatican should just shut up and worry about its own problems

[cbayer]

3. Agree. While he is saying some things that look pretty on the surface, I find the

message to be very discriminatory overall.

It's like pandering, but worse.