"Cardinal Slams Irish Lawmakers Over Civil Partnership Bill"

[Strong Atheist]

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Brady also said the people of Ireland would soon have to choose to “stand clearly on the side of Christ or depart from him”.

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and said that marriage between a man and a woman will always remain the ideal environment in which to raise children, Cardinal Brady stated, “Any government that undermines such an environment could hardly be said to be promoting the common good.


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The Civil Partnership Bill, introduced in June in the Irish D`ail, will recognized same sex couples as partners before the law and will allow them be treated as married couples for tax and social welfare, offer legal protection for shared property and provide for the dissolution of such partnerships in a manner similar to divorce. Also under the new bill, laws such as the mental health act, immigration laws and domestic violence will be amended so that civil partners receive the same protections as spouses in opposite-sex marriages.

http://lezgetreal.com/?p=20909

[hedgehog]

1. In 1950, the bishops declared that families would be

destroyed by a proposal for mothers and children to get free health care.

[laconicsax]

2. This is the same cardinal who has "no comment" on the Ryan report

You know, the report that revealed a systemic problem of physical and sexual abuse in Church-run institutions. Cardinal Brady has no comment on that but he's quick to attack 'teh gays' as wholly immoral.

[RetiredTrotskyite]

3. And these creeps think anyone needs to....

listen to their opinion? Here is a nice big cup of STFU, Yer M&Ms.

[Strong Atheist]

4. Agreed. nt.