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Dear Cardinal Napier

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In an interview with the M&G (12-18 April) you stated, “I can’t be accused of homophobia because I don’t know any homosexuals”. For someone who doesn’t know any “homosexuals” you’ve spent a considerable amount of time concerning yourself with lesbians and gays’ lives – more specifically, our rights to equal benefit and protection under law. If you don’t know us, and then by implication there aren’t any of is in your Church, it seems queer that you would assume such an active position in denying our right to rights. During public hearings on the Civil Union Bill, you were at pains to submit to Parliament that “homosexual acts are… intrinsically evil….. [M]an-made laws cannot legitimize what is against the natural moral law. Civil law cannot make what is wrong right.” From this it is clear that the Catholic Church entrenches a version of social relations and human sexuality based on male supremacy, the subordination of women, and the abjection of homosexuality. Its power, and yours by extension, is therefore premised on a system of gender and sexual inequalities presented as ‘natural’ and ‘normal’. Perhaps your investment in the lives of sinful Others is driven by an interest in protecting the ...

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