Posted on 07/27/2018 7:35:04 PM PDT by marshmallow
IRELAND, July 26, 2018, (LifeSiteNews) – Ireland’s Catholic bishops have reportedly caved into government demands to provide “marriage care service” that includes “marriage preparation” and “marital sex therapy” to homosexual couples.
The bishops’ decision, seen as a move to avoid losing government funding, seems to place fiscal considerations over fidelity to Church teaching.
At issue is nearly €1.6 million in government funding for Accord, the counseling service administered by the Irish Catholic Bishops’ Conference (ICBC). In 2016, the Irish government, now headed by the homosexual Prime Minister Leo Varadkar, supplied roughly one quarter of Accord’s operating budget.
Back in January, Catholic marriage and family counseling agencies in Ireland were told they must accept LGBT-identifying clients, otherwise they would risk losing government funding. The Catholic service had a formal policy of not accepting homosexual couples on religious grounds, reported The Times. In 2015, Ireland became the first country to legalise homosexual “marriage” by popular vote.
In order to enforce its new policy, Tulsa, the Irish government’s child and family agency charged with overseeing distribution of the funding, revised its standard service agreement for cooperating agencies for 2018. That agreement requires all agencies to have “non-discriminatory” policies in place, encompassing gay and lesbian individuals, couples, and families.
At the time, Fintan Warfield, a Sinn Féin senator, who favored the change in policy, said, “It is wrong for public monies to be channelled at organisations who fail to serve all sections of our society.”
“Why would the state identify an organisation and task them with resolving relationship difficulties when that organisation fails to embrace the diverse realities of family life in Ireland, including LGBT relationships?” continued Warfield. “Such public funding of religious counselling services should be stopped.”
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So. How does “don’t” work for you?
How does catholic priest and sex therapy make any sense in a sane world ? Plus they can’t marry so what is any marriage counselling based on ? Hand them a pamphlet ?
Wrong on many levels!
Need homo sex therapy? Just drop by a Catholic seminary! Or better yet, the Vatican. Everyone knows that.
Until it becomes illegal.
Priests may be able to offer “counseling” because that’s a service that would be provided to their parishioners. But “marriage counseling”? They should be defrocked by the Catholic Church in Vatican City.
Yup, they are the premiere experts in such matters.
WHAT THE...!?!?
They cave in for government money? Wow. The lampstand has left the building.
Just in time for Bergoglio's World Meeting of Families in Dublin, Ireland, hosted by Kevin Cardinal Farrell, once an aux bishop to the the homo McCarrick for six years, with the homo Jesuit, Fr. James Martin, as an honored speaker at the meeting.
What was that about bishops’ not having Catholic faith?
or your house.
Hm, That’s Queer Bump
Of all the people to forget Romans 1:18-32, yikes...you want a sign of the times, there it is.
There in Romans 1 you’ll find the outline and flow chart for human destruction step by step:
1. Willful self-determination
2. Wicked self-deception
3. Woeful self-destruction
More often than not, in our self-deception, in our turning away from God, we become sexually perverted and then self-justify all that follows.
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