Kathmandu\/Pahichan – MARY MCALEESE HAS expressed concern at the damage caused to children and adolescents by\u00a0the Church\u2019s teachings on homosexuality.<\/p>\n
Speaking at the launch of a new study challenging the Catholic Church\u2019s stance on homosexuality, the former president said she was also \u201cterrified\u201d by gay priests and nuns who taught children that homosexuality was wrong.<\/p>\n
She said: \u201cA phenomenon that I have found very commonly are what I call the \u2018fake hetero homophobes\u2019 within the clergy, who live double lives as gay men and women, but who [wear a veil] that is really stridently homophobic.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd I find them terrifying. Many of them are young priests who are going to be the very pastors who I as a mother might have taken my son to, for example, for help.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd when I think of the damage that they can cause, they themselves are very damaged human beings.\u201d<\/p>\n
However, she expressed hope that academic research being carried out by UK-based think-tank\u00a0the Wijngaards Institute could lead to the disappearance of the phenomenon.<\/p>\n
McAleese also claimed that children educated by Catholic-run institutions have \u201cthe right not to be subjected\u201d to misinformation on homosexuality that would damage their lives and marginalise them.<\/p>\n
She said: \u201cHomophobia is dangerous in the lives of our growing children, in particular our adolescent children.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is dangerous, it is damaging, and those who provide the services to our children through which that teaching is conveyed have a huge moral and indeed a legal responsibility to those children to ensure that nothing they do abuses those children\u2019s rights or compromises their futures.\u201d<\/p>\n
She added that the Catholic Church was at a \u201ctipping point\u201d in relation to its teaching on homosexuality, and claimed that its future would be defined by how it dealt with LGBTI issues.<\/p>\n
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Kathmandu\/Pahichan – MARY MCALEESE HAS expressed concern at the damage caused to children and adolescents by\u00a0the Church\u2019s teachings on homosexuality.
\nSpeaking at the launch of a new study challenging the Catholic Church\u2019s stance on homosexuality, the former president said she was also \u201cterrified\u201d by gay priests and nuns who taught children that homosexuality was wrong.
\nShe said: \u201cA phenomenon that I have found very commonly are what I call the \u2018fake hetero homophobes\u2019 within the clergy, who live double lives as gay men and women, but who [wear a veil] that is …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":10773,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1081,8,621,490,11],"tags":[971,502],"class_list":["post-10772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-explanationawareness","category-human-rights","category-news","category-slider","category-world","tag-homosexuality","tag-lgbti"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10772"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10774,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10772\/revisions\/10774"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}