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Gay News: A senior adviser to the Archbishop of Westminster has claimed that abortion and gay rights have turned the UK into a moral wasteland.
By: Nigel Robinson
Adamus works for Westminster diocese
Adamus works for Westminster diocese
Top Catholic blames UK moral wasteland on gay agenda
Edmund Adamus, director of pastoral affairs in the Catholic diocese of Westminster, made the claims in an interview with Zenit – The World Seen From Rome, a Catholic news agency strongly associated with the Vatican.
Just two weeks before the Pope visits Britain, Mr Adamus claimed that the British Parliament had turned the UK, and London in particular, into “the geopolitical epicentre of the culture of death”.
“[Britain’s] laws and lawmakers for over fifty years or more have been the most permissively anti-life and progressively anti-family and marriage, in essence one of the most anti-Catholic landscapes culturally speaking than even those places where Catholics suffer open persecution,” he said.
He went on to discuss marriage between men and women as a Christian vocation, and to deplore co-habitation, pornography and the “feminisation” of masculinity
He urged his fellow Catholics “in small actions and greater ones [to] exhibit countercultural signals against the selfish, hedonistic wasteland that is the objectification of women for sexual gratification.
“Britain, in particular with its ever-increasing commercialisation of sex, not to mention its permissive laws advancing the gay agenda is such a wasteland.
A spokesman for Vincent Nichols, the Archbishop of Westminster, said that Mr Adamus’s views were not those of the Archbishop.
Gay rights campaigner Peter Tatchell said:
“The suggestion that gay equality laws make Britain a moral wasteland is insulting but not unexpected.
“The Pope supports legal discrimination against gay people. He says we are not entitled to equal human rights.
“To claim that Britain is the centre of a culture of death is absurd. We are a world leader in scientific research to develop new medical treatments to save lives and we make a significant contribution to helping combat hunger and poverty in developing countries."
