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Chris Finlayson meets the Pope, tweets pic

Wed 20 Mar 2013 In: New Zealand Daily News View at Wayback

New Zealand’s gay and Catholic Attorney-General has Tweeted a picture of himself meeting Pope Francis I in Rome. Chris Finlayson is representing the New Zealand Government at the Inauguration Mass. Finlayson is Catholic and while openly-gay, he has also stated he is celibate. He has voted against the first two readings of the marriage equality Bill. The new Pope has previously described same-sex couples getting married and adopting as a “destructive attack on God’s plan.”     

Credit: GayNZ.com Daily News staff

First published: Wednesday, 20th March 2013 - 11:11am

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