Catholic Synod: Gay Rights Groups ‘Disappointed’
Catholic gay rights groups say they are disappointed after bishops rejected proposals for wider acceptance of gay people, which had the Pope’s backing. The call to “accept and value” homosexuals was in a draft report, but failed to win the backing of two-thirds of the bishops at a synod in Rome. The final report says only that anti-gay discrimination is “to be avoided”. Two other paragraphs suggesting divorced and remarried Catholics could receive communion also failed to pass. The synod will meet again in a year’s time for furt