Catholic Archbishop of San Francisco: Allowing gays to marry ‘is like legalising male breastfeeding’
Introducing equal marriage is like legalising “male breastfeeding”, according to the Catholic Archbishop of San Francisco Salvatore Cordileone.
In an interview with the Catholic Herald, Archbishop Cordileone said: “Truth is clear. Wanting children to be connected to a mother and father discriminates against no one. Every child has a father and a mother, and either you support the only institution that connects a child with their father and mother or you don’t.
“Adoption, by a mother and father, mirrors the natural union of a mother and father and provides a balanced, happy alternative for when a child may not be reared by their biological parents.”
In referencing the supporters of equal marriage, Archbishop Cordileone said: “If you use theology, you will play into their hands and they will say you use religion to control people. Marriage isn’t primarily in theology; marriage is in nature. Theology builds on the natural institution, giving us a deeper mystical and supernatural sense of its meaning.”
Archbishop Cordileone then cautions against using the term “gay marriage”, advising that it should be used “only sparingly” because – as the author of the article Mary O’Regan states – “it is a natural impossibility”. Archbishop Cordileone is then quoted as saying: “Legislating for the right for people of the same sex to marry is like legalising male breastfeeding.”