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Tuesday, March 06, 2018

This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things

The World Meeting of Families will be held in Dublin from Aug. 22-26, 2018 with the theme “The Gospel of the Family, Joy for the World.” Pope Francis will participate in the event, marking the first time in nearly 40 years that a pope has been present in the country.
According to Ireland’s Prime Minister Leo Varadkar, the papal visit will be treated as a State visit, which will “be given the full support of the State in terms of protocol, security and any other matters.”

Of course, it didn't take long for the social justice warriors to get into high dudgeon: 



Ahead of the upcoming World Meeting of Families in Ireland this August, a government minister has warned that the event should not express “intolerance” of LGBT groups or same-sex couples.
“There should be a welcome for all. And never again should public statements or remarks which seek to isolate certain families be tolerated,” said Katherine Zappone, the Irish Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, according to the Irish Times.
Zappone continued to say that she hopes the World Meeting of Families will “not be used as a platform for remarks which exclude, isolate or hurt any family.”
She criticized the absence of LGBT families in promotional literature for the Church-sponsored event, calling it a “source of serious concern,” and denounced that Ireland’s former president, Mary McAleese, was prohibited from speaking at a Vatican conference, apparently because of her stance on LGBT issues. 

She was born in America, is openly lesbian, and has a "wife". She attended Boston College (you KNEW there were going to be Jesuits involved) and the Catholic University of America, which claims to be "faithfully Catholic".


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