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09/10/2012
McAleese Expresses Support For Gay Marriage
Former President of Ireland Mary McAleese has said she supports gay marriage. “I have no problem with it at all,” she said.
Speaking in an interview recently recorded with Gay Byrne for his Meaning of Life series, she said she held “a very strong view that for centuries now gay people have lived in a dark secretive world of indeterminate loneliness, dreadful complexity . . .”
Adding that gay people were “as entitled to live their lives on their own terms, as I do as a heterosexual”, she said.
“I’m just thrilled anyone wants to get married”, which was “a great grace”.
The programme will be broadcast on RTÉ One television on Tuesday at 10.15pm. She said she had been in Rome since “almost immediately” after she left Áras an Uachtaráin last November. She was studying canon law and said “I see my life writing in that field.”
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Speaking in an interview recently recorded with Gay Byrne for his Meaning of Life series, she said she held “a very strong view that for centuries now gay people have lived in a dark secretive world of indeterminate loneliness, dreadful complexity . . .”
Adding that gay people were “as entitled to live their lives on their own terms, as I do as a heterosexual”, she said.
“I’m just thrilled anyone wants to get married”, which was “a great grace”.
The programme will be broadcast on RTÉ One television on Tuesday at 10.15pm. She said she had been in Rome since “almost immediately” after she left Áras an Uachtaráin last November. She was studying canon law and said “I see my life writing in that field.”
(H/GK)
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