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Mon 10 Oct 2009Churches urged to back civil partnerships
THE CHURCHES should welcome and support civil partnership legislation rather than try to push those who will benefit from it further to the margins, a meeting of the Church of Ireland Changing Attitude Ireland (CAI) group was told in Dublin at the weekend.
CAI secretary Rev Mervyn Kingston said at a meeting in TCD that the opposition of Catholic Primate Cardinal Seán Brady to the Civil Partnership Bill “helps to make the churches a less welcoming place for gay and lesbian Christians”.
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