As I’m sure you are aware, Ireland became the first country to legalise gay marriage by popular vote after a referendum found that 62% of voters were in favour of changing the constitution to allow gay and lesbian couples to marry.
What comes next sounds like satire and feels like satire, but no it is actually quite real …
A senior Vatican official has attacked the legalisation of gay marriage in Ireland. The referendum that overwhelmingly backed marriage equality last weekend was a “defeat for humanity”, he claimed.
“I was deeply saddened by the result,” Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican’s secretary of state, said at a conference in Rome on Tuesday night. “The church must take account of this reality
I’m not personally convinced that for a chap who thinks his imaginary friend is real that “reality” is one of his strengths.
We are on a roll here because archbishop Diarmuid Martin of Dublin, also commented as follows …
“It is very clear that if this referendum is an affirmation of the views of young people … [then the church needs] a reality check.”
er yes, he really did say it in our reality, he feels they need a reality check, which is perhaps the primary criticism that has been directed against their various delusions for quite some time.
When you hear somebody claim that a popular public vote in favour of equal rights is “a defeat for humanity” then you know that they truly are standing on the wrong side of the moral line, oh and he is also basically telling 62% of the voting public in Ireland that they are idiots.
It should come as no surprise to see that the Guardian article on this has generated thousands of comments, most of which are highly critical of this crassly daft claim, and so here are a few of my favourites …
I don’t recall the Vatican being as damning when it came to its priests raping children.
They might never to come to terms with it, but the result of the vote was not a defeat, but rather a victory for humanity.
None of this should of course be a surprise because every single time there has been a move forwards towards a better society in Ireland, the catholic cult has had to be dragged there kicking and screaming.