Irish bishops cave into offering fake ‘marriage counseling’ and ‘sex therapy’ to gay couples
Ireland’s Catholic bishops have reportedly caved into government demands to provide “marriage care service” that includes “marriage preparation” and “marital sex therapy” to homosexual couples. The bishops’ decision, seen as a move to avoid losing government funding, seems to place fiscal considerations over fidelity to Church teaching. At issue is nearly €1.6 million in government funding for Accord , the counseling service administered by the Irish Catholic Bishops’ Conference (ICBC). In 2016, the Irish government, now headed by the homosexual Prime Minister Leo Varadkar, supplied roughly one-quarter of Accord’s operating budget. Back in January, Catholic marriage and family counseling agencies in Ireland were told they must accept LGBT-identifying clients, otherwise, they would risk losing government funding. The Catholic service had a formal policy of not accepting homosexual couples on religious grounds, reported The Times. In 2015, Ireland became the first country to legalize