The stroke of midnight this past Sunday morng hered a new era human rights for gay and lbian New Yorkers. From Niagara Falls to the southern shore of Long Island, same sex upl, many of them already mted relatnships for s, were award hundreds of legal rights they had
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NEW CEREMONI FOR GAY UNNS
The stroke of midnight this past Sunday morng hered a new era human rights for gay and lbian New Yorkers. Every one of them is gay or lbian, and every one of them is eply mted to their Catholic fah. Lucky for those of gathered the park on that balmy, blsed, late afternoon, the prence of God is not subject to the limed, fallible men who make church their marriage, the women shared what most human begs, gay or straight, long for: a relatnship that giv wns to the life-givg power of God's love our world.
" It lled on Catholics "to wele wh rpect and sensivy persons wh homosexual clatns. " The Vatin also said that s refal to give relig approval to same-sex marriage do not preclu givg blsgs to homosexual people. " The Vatin's msage ced Francis' own words om 2016, when he wrote, "there are absolutely no grounds for nsirg homosexual unns to be any way siar or even remotely analogo to God's plan for marriage and fay.
Pope Francis has been viewed wh ut optimism by LGBTQ groups bee of remarks like his statement, wily published 2020, that homosexuals are "part of the fay" and that same-sex and other nontradnal upl need a "civil unn law.