PRESS RELEASE: 1 February 2018_ Call for State funding to be withheld from WMoF 2018 unless LGBT couples welcomed.
We are Church Ireland is calling on the Irish Government to withhold state funding of
the World Meeting of Families 2018 (WMoF 2018) until assurances are received from
the organisers, the Dublin Catholic Archdiocese, that the event will welcome and
include families headed by LGBT couples.
Such assurances are necessary in view of the removal of images and text relating to
LGBT people from the WMOF2018 brochures.
″The Government should not use Irish taxpayers money to fund any organisation that
discriminates against LBGT families ” stated Brendan Butler, spokesperson of We are
Church Ireland.