Former Irish president McAleese accuses Catholic Church of ‘homophobic’ attitude
IRELAND, January 15, 2014 ( LifeSiteNews.com ) – Former Irish President Mary McAleese , a dissident Catholic who is an outspoken support of homosexuality and women priests, has criticized Catholic teaching on marriage and family as “homophobic” and “completely contradictory to modern science and to modern understanding”. Referring to disgraced Cardinal Keith O'Brien , McAleese suggested that Catholic opposition to homosexuality is the result of closeted homosexuals within Church leadership hoping to divert attention from themselves by raising a voice against homosexuality “in the most homophobic way”. McAleese suggested that Catholic opposition to homosexuality is the result of closeted homosexuals within Church leadership hoping to divert attention from themselves "Things written by Benedict, for example, were completely contradictory to modern science and to modern understanding, and to the understanding of most Catholics nowadays in relation to homosexuality,” s