UPDATED: Cardinal Wuerl: Church Treats Gay Marriage Of Catholics Like Divorce

PEMA LEVY 10:04 AM EDT, SUNDAY MARCH 31, 2013

Cardinal Donald Wuerl, the archbishop of Washington, explained Sunday that gay Catholics who marry their partners may remain part of the Catholic Church even though the church will not recognize their marriage. In an appearance on "Fox News Sunday," Wuerl explained this is similar to how the church treats Catholics who are divorced and remarried.

"We do that same thing with people who are married, divorced and remarried," Wuerl said on the church's refusal to recognize same-sex marriages. "We say, you know, you're still part of the family, but we can't recognize that second marriage… and it's never been a great problem."

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Update:

Cardinal Wuerl: Belief In Traditional Marriage Is Not ‘Bigotry

’PEMA LEVY 10:19 AM EDT, SUNDAY MARCH 31, 2013

Cardinal Donald Wuerl, the archbishop of Washington, argued Sunday that Catholics' traditional beliefs about sex and marriage do not amount to "bigotry" and said there should be a place in American society for people with those beliefs.

"There has to be room enough in the society as large, as free and as pluralistic as America to make space for all of us," Wuerl said on "Fox News Sunday."

"The only thing I worry about is someone saying to me, 'You, because you believe that sex is intended for marriage and because you believe that marriage is indissoluble and because you believe that marriage is between a man and a woman,' that somehow you don't belong here. That somehow, this is bigotry or this is hate speech. That's what I worry about," Wuerl said.

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