I note in your report on gay adoption in Ireland (News, 21 February) mention of the argument by the organisation Mothers and Fathers Matter against the proposed parental rights of same-sex couples. The organisation states that "the bill will in effect deprive children in these contests of either a mother or a father.' Quite correct and I fully agree.
But is not this just what the Church does when it denies a mother or father, abandoned with young children, the right to remarry? This sort of double-think is what brings the Church and its present official morality into such disrepute, and cries out for real reform in the manner in which marriage is taught and practised.
Brian Hamill, Wakefield
Loading ...
