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Same-sex couples are just lifelong friends, marriage is between a man and a woman - Catholic leader
16 Mar 2012 at 07:39hrs | Views
The Archbishop of Westminster, the Most Reverend Vincent Nichols Photo: DAVID ROSE
UK - The Archbishop of Westminster, the Most Reverend Vincent Nichols, said he appreciates some same-sex couples want to be joined in wedlock but insisted the true nature of marriage is between a man and a woman.
Asked what he would say to a gay Catholic couple who approached him for marriage within the Church, the Archbishop said: "I would want to say to them that I understand their desires, that I understand their experience of love is vitally important in their lives, but I would want to say to them that they are called in my view, in the church's view, to a very profound friendship in life.
"I would want them to be respected, but I would want them to have a vision in themselves that what they are called to is not marriage but a very profound and lifelong friendship."
Asked what he would say to a gay Catholic couple who approached him for marriage within the Church, the Archbishop said: "I would want to say to them that I understand their desires, that I understand their experience of love is vitally important in their lives, but I would want to say to them that they are called in my view, in the church's view, to a very profound friendship in life.
"I would want them to be respected, but I would want them to have a vision in themselves that what they are called to is not marriage but a very profound and lifelong friendship."
Source - telegraph
