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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsScottish Cardinal slams UK government plans to redefine marriage to include same-sex couples
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/scottish-cardinal-slams-uk-government-plans-to-redefine-marriage-to-include-same-sex-couples/2012/03/04/gIQAFmBJqR_story.htmlLONDON The head of the Catholic Church in Scotland has fiercely attacked the British governments plans to allow gay marriage, calling the proposals madness.
In an article for the Sunday Telegraph newspaper, Scottish Roman Catholic Cardinal Keith OBrien accuses the coalition government of trying to redefine reality.
He says the proposals to allow same-sex unions are madness, calling the idea a grotesque subversion of a universally accepted human right.
Prime Minister David Cameron has openly advocated gay marriage. Later this month, the equalities minister will launch a consultation on how to change the legal definition of marriage to include same-sex couples.
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hobbit709
(41,694 posts)MichaelMcGuire
(1,684 posts)I'm unfamiliar with what the coalition proposals are in any detail. But if they are like the current ones currently under review in Scotland, they should be welcomed.
it was under consultation introduced by the SNP in Scotland's parliament and is currently being analysed (http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Justice/law/17867/samesex). Its supported by (with the exception of a few), most members, including the current government (http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2011/09/05153328/1) and opposition parties (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-16816512). Catholic Church and others have already been given insurances that "no religious body or its celebrants should be required to carry out same sex marriages or civil partnership ceremonies" (against their will) Leaving other religious bodies or celebrants able to carry out same sex marriages as they wish and no longer prohibited from doing so.
We've heard all this nonsense before from the likes of the Cardinal, it looks like their needing to be dragged kicking and screaming into this day and age. I hope that his nonsense doesn't deter the proposals from becoming law in England and Wales. Just as I hope it doesn't deter the Scottish government in Scotland.
DLC_equals_GOP
(18 posts)Nobody is forcing your or any other church to do dick.
marry or don't marry whom you want, Hate who you want too.
You will always be able to hide behind your religion.
xchrom
(108,903 posts)alp227
(32,419 posts)Downing Street dismissed O'Brien: Cardinal Keith O'Brien's gay marriage comments decried as scaremongering (The Guardian)