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Papal Nuncio: Roman Catholics, Muslims, Jews Must “Unite” to Oppose Gay Marriage

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LONDON, ENGLAND, UNITED KINGDOM – In an unusual call for political unity between faiths that are often at-odds with one another, the pope’s personal representative to the United Kingdom is urging British Roman Catholics to form a “united front” with British Muslims and conservative Jews to oppose marriage equality.

During an address to Roman Catholic bishops, the papal nuncio, Archbishop Antonio Mennini, repeated recent comments made by Pope Benedict XVI, who said that the church faces “powerful political and cultural currents” that threaten the traditional definition of marriage.

The nuncio’s timing coincides with recent statements by conservative British Jewish and Muslim leaders, who voiced strong opposition to Undersecretary for Equalities Lynne Featherstone’s call for a national dialog on marriage equality and the best ways to implement it. In response, the Muslim Council of Britain described the plan as both “unnecessary and unhelpful.”

Similarly, Scotland’s Council of Glasgow Imams agreed to a resolution that describes same-sex marriage as an “attack” on the Muslim faith and its fundamental tenets Although Liberal and Reform Jewish synagogues have thrown their support behind the U.K.’s marriage equality plans, the country’s United Synagogues—British Judaism’s largest sect, which holds its religious authority from the Chief Rabbi of Britain—have come out in opposition, with one prominent London rabbi condemning what he called the government “assault” on religious liberty and values.

In addition, the leader of Britain’s Network of Sikh Organizations, Lord Indarjit Singh, says that the plans to reform the U.K.’s marriage laws are “a sideways assault on religion.”

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