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Freedom to Love and Be Loved

9/3/2012

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At the weekend, Cardinal O’Brien, one of the country’s most senior Catholics, made some very outspoken comments about gay marriage. He wishes to retain the definition of marriage as a lifelong commitment solely between a man and a  woman. He quotes the Universal Declaration on Human Rights and implies that widening the definition of marriage to include same sex couples would represent “a grotesque subversion of a universally accepted human right”.

Sadly, the Cardinal fails to consider another basic human right – the right to freely exist and to love. There are five countries in the world where homosexuality is punishable by death and over 70 others, where being lesbian or gay carries a prison sentence. This of course does not include all the countries where violent homophobia and transphobia is encouraged or tolerated by the state.

I have yet to hear of a heterosexual couple who feel that their love and commitment to each other is lessened because others are allowed to celebrate and cherish love too. However, when people are killed, attacked or imprisoned, simply because of how our God created them and for whom they love, then we are all diminished as human beings.

Let us pray this week for freedom to love and to be fully loved, without fear.

 
God bless

Cecilia

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Charlotte N
9/3/2012 01:28:56 am

A great response to Cardinal O'Brien's frankly bizarre rationale...he claims, falsely, that the Human Rights Act defines marriage as 'between a man and a woman', and seems to think therefore that gay marriage is 'against' human rights (thoroughly false rhetoric of course!) A lawyer friend of mine has told me that the HRA does not in fact say anything of the sort, rather it affirms that all men and women have the right to get married. I'd rather he just came out and said he thinks h/s is a sin, at least it would be honest.

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amol joshi link
19/2/2018 11:06:45 pm

When it come to freedom of love equality in caste gender and everything and there should not be any roadblock in love. We should give everyone the freedom to love and also has the most carefree attitude towards love and he proves just that.

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