Vatican Official calls Irish gay marriage vote "a defeat for humanity"

[LiberalElite]

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/26/vatican-ireland-gay-marriage-referendum-vote-defeat-for-humanity

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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, but in the sense that it must strengthen its commitment to evangelisation. I think that you cannot just talk of a defeat for Christian principles, but of a defeat for humanity.”
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Pope Francis has said some nice things but I feel like we're being good-copped/bad-copped by the RC church. This guy's further out than Rubio.

[ladyVet]

1. More like a defeat for inhumanity. nt

[xfundy]

2. The real "defeat for humanity" is

how they covered up the molestation and abuse of so many children over so many years.

[Submariner]

3. I'd like to know what the Roman Catholic Church of Child Rape

calls the rape of thousands of Irish children over decades by the perve priests and bishops? "a bigger defeat for humanity?"