Mary McAleese
The Diplomat
People, composure and the difficult conversation held well.
Mary McAleese is a former President of Ireland known for her commitment to reconciliation and dialogue. This interview highlights her diplomatic approach to leadership, focusing on trust-building and coalition-forming in a complex socio-political landscape.
“Who wants to believe that their God-given nature is disordered, but homosexual acts, how they express their love in a loving relationship, for example, through whatever sexual activity they engage, that that is regarded as intrinsically evil? I don't think so.”
“And I also think that our Archbishop in Dublin, although he was obviously on the no side during the campaign, though he said he would never tell anybody how to vote, he also called out the homophobes, the so-called Christian homophobes, and told them they weren't Christian at all. Of challenge.”
“Fast, that's our thing. So, when I came to Trinity in 75, I moved to Trinity and took up a job there as a law lecturer. And one of the first friends I made was David Norris. And we got chatting. And I was, I think it was one of the first debates I ever attended on LGBTI rights was in the historical society in Trinity.”
“Because the response to you must nowadays has simply got to be I do not have to do that. I'm not taking away for one moment the right of parents. Parents have every right to baptize their child, to raise them in their faith.”
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