Cuban Catholic leader approves protections for gay couples
Copyright by the Windy City Times
September 12, 2007
The Roman Catholic vicar general of Havana, Monsignor Carlos Manuel de Céspedes García-Menocal, supports “stable same-sex relationships” being “protected by civil laws.”
He staked out his position in an article published in the July/August issue of the Archdiocese of Havana’s New Word magazine.
Céspedes said, “Contemporary Western society is no longer the same as that which arrived at present clarifications concerning marriage.”
Although the church “is not going to renounce criteria established by revelation and set by tradition,” he said, “neither can it ignore contemporary personal and family reality.”
“Today we know that human reality is much more complex than we believed and that the situation of Christianity in the world is not excessively appealing, not even in the so-called ‘Christian West,’” the vicar general said.
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