Cardinal Wuerl: LGBT people should ‘make room’ for Catholics who oppose marriage rights

The Archbishop of Washington on Easter Sunday said that he was concerned that Catholics would be shunned for opposing same sex marriage — and that it was gay and lesbian Americans who need to “make room” for the very people discriminating against them.

During an interview on Fox News Sunday, host Chris Wallace asked Cardinal Donald Wuerl how the church would react to gay and lesbian members who wanted to get married if the U.S. Supreme Court found that state and federal bans on same sex marriage were unconstitutional.

“The Catholic Church also reminds all of us there is a moral law, they are the commandments of God and we have to do our best to live by them,” Wuerl insisted. “The church is probably — with 20 centuries of experience — the most understanding of the human condition of any institution. But at the same time, it does remind not only gay people but heterosexual people, straight people, you’re not supposed to be following a moral law apart from what Christ has said to us.”