Wednesday, September 07, 2005
PERSECUTED FOR TELLING THE TRUTH
Cardinal O'Brien has boldly defended Catholic truth on a number of occasions. This is just one of them.
From Gay.com:
The former Bishop of Edinburgh has slammed criticism of gay adoption, and accused Catholic leaders of falling into an “old trap” of imposing beliefs on non-Catholics.
Richard Holloway made the comments after Scotland’s senior Catholic representative Cardinal Keith O’Brien wrote in the Sunday Times that plans to allow same-sex couples to adopt were a “distorted social experiment”.
"We ignore a wealth of global evidence and place innumerable children in peril if we forget certain immutable truths; children need a male and a female role model in a permanent relationship," Cardinal O’Brien said in the article.
"Scotland's adopted children must not become guinea pigs in some distorted social experiment aimed at redefining marriage, subverting the family and threatening the good of society."
But Holloway warned the Cardinal not to impose his own views on non-Catholics.
"The old ritual tradition has kicked in. The Cardinal and the Moderator have attacked it because it offends their religious code,” he said in quotes published by the Scotsman.
"They have fallen into the old trap of believing the strictures of their religious code should be enforced on those that don't share it."
Holloway is not the first to criticise the Cardinal for the comments, which have angered gay campaigners north of the border.
“We regard it is deeply sad that a senior cleric is still peddling these untruthful and inflammatory claims about gay people,” Stonewall’s Ben Summerskill told GAY.COM.
I see they are using the UN to back up their claim. Will a lawsuit follow?
He also claimed the changes were an "open contradiction" to the UN Convention on the rights of the child, comments the Scottish Executive rejected.
