Posted on 12/01/2004 6:32:00 AM PST by NYer
DOHA, Qatar, November 30, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) - One of the Vatican's highest-ranking prelates said at a conference today, "An ideology hostile to the family is spreading" in governments around the world.
Alfonso Cardinal Lopez Trujillo, president of the Pontifical Council for the Family, spoke at the International Conference on the Family organized in Doha, the capital of Qatar by the World Congress of Families. The Cardinal's address was called, "The Complementarity of Men and Women - Building on the Strengths of Mothers and Fathers."
In many countries the push for same-sex "marriage" has caused confusion among Catholics who are often told that matters of justice and human rights are at stake. Even bishops have made ambiguous statements that can be seen to be supportive of civil recognition of homosexual relationships. Trujillo on the other hand clearly emphasized the necessity of opposing any incursions against marriage in civil law. "Recognition of 'de facto' unions," he said, "which are a legal fiction, proposing same-sex unions as an alternative to marriage, and inventing new, unacceptable notions of marriage to the point of accepting the adoption of children, are grave signs of dehumanization."
The Vatican has watched anxiously as the European Union as well as governments overseas have worked to undermine the family as the foundation of civil society - first by legalizing civil divorce, contraception and abortion, and then ultimately enacting laws making homosexual partnerships equal to marriage.
Cardinal Trujillo said that the family is founded upon marriage, which is not a product of European cultural bias, but rather a standard for all human societies. He added, "One truth that is present in a profound way in all cultures and religions is that of the family based on marriage, the only worthy and appropriate place for conjugal love." The fruit of marriage, the "complete, reciprocal self-giving" says the Cardinal, is the child which he called "God's most precious gift."
Cardinal Trujillo denounced the Marxist-feminist critique of the family which attempts to portray it as a kind of economic slavery. He said, "In the past decade, the complementarity between a man and a woman and the overcoming of any opposition between the sexes have strangely been negated. The abuses deriving from a certain kind of 'male chauvinist' domination ...are not valid arguments for an exacerbated feminism that considers marriage and the family a place of slavery, and fatherhood and motherhood an unbearable burden that turns into fear."
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Homosexual rights activists always claim they want "equal" rights. When in fact they are asking for extra rights. Gay marriage is not an equal right, its an extra right. Extra rights leads to a totally permissive, degraded sick society.
I have noticed that the online dictionary's have decided to include "gay marriage" under the term "marriage."
Does anyone have a dictionary around their house? I do not think that the def. included "gay marriage."
I believe this is something new that has just been added!
I have noticed that the online dictionary's have decided to include "gay marriage" under the term "marriage."
Does anyone have a dictionary around their house? I do not think that the def. included "gay marriage."
I believe this is something new that has just been added!
Sodomy is an abomination not worthy of human beings and pretending that sodomy can be a basis for holy matrimony is indeed a dehumanization.
Ummm ... What human rights are at stake???
The gays can do whatever they want and have what ever sex they choose in the privacy of their homes
No one can stop them .. but I'm also not going to give them my blessings ..
I recall a radio host talking about how one day he checked some online dictionary and it had the basic definition of marrige (man and woman) and then the next day they changed it.
I don't have any proof of this , but I do remeber it being brought up.
It's newspeak! (I guess, I haven't read orwell since high school)
I would argue that one human right that is at stake is the spread of more STDs. It is a fact that most gays have multiple partners. And STDs such as AIDS are still mostly spread through the homosexual community.
Now, before you say that heteros are also responsible for the spread of STDs, I will say you are correct. And I do not support any sex that is outside of marriage.
Also, when these folks gets AIDS, tax payers then have to support them. Once again, that violates my rights--my right to keep more of my money!
But, before the money argument, I have a big problem with this theory that gays do not spread STDs anymore than anyone else--that is absolutely false.
Thanks, I remember looking it up a while back and it did not include gay marriage--I know that.
Then today, when this story popped up, I looked it up again--and there it was.
Have you ever talked with gays? ... They always compare it to the civil rights of the 60's
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Ok, sorry about that. I misread what you were saying.
Yeah, I agree, what humans rights are being violated!
Good question, but don't expect an answer. I have asked this to several gays and to a group of hetersexuals who are pro gay-marriage. And guess what, I have never gotten a real answer.
one conversation went like this...
Gay: Two loving people should be able to marry no matter if it is two men.
Will: What about people that want to marry more than one person? If we allow gays to marry each other, then we will have to allow people to marry 7 wives.
Gay: Well that is different, marriage is between two adults.
Will: No, it is between two adult human beings that are of the opposite sex. But since you say it is between two adults, what about a man who wants to marry his horse--an adult horse?
Gay: Well, we can't allow that, but gays don't hurt anything.
Will: Pologamy, beastality, and homosexual behavior are all harmful to our culture.
Gay: Whatever.
That is why they re-issue dictionaries on a regular basis - to add new 'words' and 'definitions'. It's just a matter of time until the children's dictionary catches up. If I were you, I would hold onto the kid's dictionary your child is presently using :-)
No joke, but the versions I was looking at were Webster's Online.
This is awful.
That would be "wrong" if they did that. Oh wait, while they are at it, remove "wrong" because right and wrong are just things that a bunch of old men in the Bible made up.
The part about the bible actually came out of the mouth of a liberal I know.
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