Posted on 11/17/2004 4:35:17 PM PST by AskStPhilomena
The Catholic Archbishop of Dublin Diarmuid Martin has indicated his approval for giving legal rights to gay couples.
He is the first senior religious figure in Ireland to have made a statement of this kind.
It followed comments from Taoiseach Bertie Ahern that extending tax and inheritance rights to gay couples would be the "fairest" and "most Christian" way to deal with the issue.
The Christian way would be to ignore their religion consisting mainly of worhshipping another's backside.
Clergy who continually pontificate upon improving the status of homosexuals are apparently willing sycophants for their agenda.
Unfortunately, these are satan's weasels who, being inside the Church, are constantly finding ways to tear it down.
It was the Pope who told Lehmann to cease and desist, as you conveniently neglect to mention, since it does not fit into your agenda of trashing the Pope and the Catholic Church at every opportunity you get to build up parallel structures that are uncanonical, schismatic and partly heretical (since in practice you reject papal supremacy and the role of the Magisterium, which are part of the Deposit of Faith, and embrace private judgment, which is pure Protestant error).
"It was the Pope who told Lehmann to cease and desist"
It was the pope who, despite his open defiance, then made Lehmann a cardinal.
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