Mary McAleese has refuted claims by Archbishop Charles Chaput that the Catholic Church never said homosexuals were disordered. The Archbishop accused Mrs McAleese, who has a doctorate in canon law, that she had ‘a very narrow point of view that’s trying to control something she shouldn’t try to control, that is the faith of the Catholic Church. They say that the tendency to same-sex attraction is a disorder of our sexual appetite,’ Archbishop Chaput continued. ‘A lot of people have disorders. Wearing glasses, not being able to hear well are all disorders that a person may have but it doesn’t destroy their dignity. It just means they have an issue to deal with. So I think that language is being used by politicians in order to stir up one side against the other and that’s inappropriate for politicians to do.’