IRELAND
Gay Star News
26 MAY 2015 | BY JOE MORGAN
The Catholic Church’s attempt to keep gay couples away from marriage in Ireland has failed, a Vatican newspaper has lamented.
The Osservatore Romano has said they have been ‘defeated’, highlighting a gap between their dated views and the ones held by 62% of Irish voters.
With young people proving the Church’s power over the country has waned, the newspaper said the result spoke of a ‘challenge for the whole [of the Catholic community].’
‘The margin between the “yes” and the “no” votes was too large not to be accepted as a defeat. It was the result of high voter turnout, notably among young people,’ the Vatican paper said, according to the AFP.
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