PRESS RELEASE 7 June 2018 PETITION TO POPE FRANCIS:
CHANGE CHURCH LGBTQI LANGUAGE
Today, Thursday 7th June We Are Church Ireland is launching a petition calling on
Pope Francis to change Vatican theological language that is gravely insulting to
LGBTQI people.
Words like objectively disordered & intrinsically evil to describe any human
being is wrong but for an institution like the Catholic Church to teach that these
words are an expression of the mind of God to describe her image in LGBTQI
persons is not alone scandalous but blasphemous.
The petition is being launched by Ursula Halligan of WAC Ireland, Senator David
Norris and Pádraig Ó Tuama of the Corrymeela Community.
Find the petition on Change.org at:
https://www.change.org/p/info-dublindiocese-ie-pope-francis-change-church-lgbtqi-language?recruiter=16658031&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=copylink&utm_campaign=share_petition
“We Are Church Ireland encourages every Catholic who continues to be enraged by this
Vatican Un-Christian language to sign the petition demanding the withdrawal of this
offensive language to describe our LGBTQI sisters and brothers” stated Brendan Butler.