A top Roman Catholic cardinal says he regrets that the church is portrayed as “anti-gay” for supporting traditional marriage between a man and a woman.
Cardinal Timothy Dolan, archbishop of New York, told NBC News that the church has been “out-marketed” on the issue by an array of people, including politicians.
“We’ve been caricatured as being anti-gay,” Dolan said in an interview airing today on NBC’s Meet the Press. “And as much as we’d say, ‘Wait a minute, we’re pro marriage, we’re pro traditional marriage, we’re not anti anybody,’ I don’t know.
“When you have forces like Hollywood, when you have forces like politicians, when you have forces like some opinion-molders that are behind it, it’s a tough battle,” he said.
Illinois recently became the 16th state to legalize same-sex marriage, with the new state law set to take effect on June 1, 2014.
“If a person is gay and seeks God and has goodwill, who am I to judge him?” Pope Francis said in July.
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