Here we go again. Ignoring Church teaching and condemnations of sodomite unions and sexual acts by Pope Benedict XVI, the Archbishop offers an “alternative”? An “alternative? Yes, active homosexuals in a “union” need protection for their sin, for that sinful “union” and civil “rights” to boot, Martin says. Not one word about the sin of homosexual acts. And he is the Catholic Archbishop of Dublin, a successor of the Apostles!
LifeSiteNews: Faithful Catholics in Dublin are in an uproar over their own bishop. While homosexual activists are working hard in Ireland in the build-up to a national referendum on “gay marriage,” Archbishop Diarmuid Martin has suggested civil recognition of homosexual relationships as an alternative, a notion that runs counter to established Vatican teaching.
“I believe that there are ways in which, civil registrations for example, in which gay and lesbian people can have their rights respected and legally protected,” said Archbishop Martin in an interview with the state broadcaster RTÉ. More here.
