Posted on 04/22/2005 4:08:23 PM PDT by traumer
Pope Benedict XVI has responded firmly to the first challenge of his papacy by condemning a Spanish government bill allowing marriage between homosexuals.
The bill, passed by parliament's Socialist-dominated lower house, also allows gay couples to adopt.
A senior Vatican official described the bill - which is likely to become law within a few months - as iniquitous.
He said Roman Catholic officials should be prepared to lose their jobs rather than co-operate with the law.
The bill would make Spain the first European country to allow homosexual people to marry and adopt children.
Belgium and the Netherlands only allow same-sex marriages. It is also a dramatic step in the rapid secularisation of what was once one of the most devoutly Roman Catholic countries in Europe.
The head of the Vatican's Pontifical Council on the Family, Cardinal Alfonso Lopez Trujillo, denounced the legislation as profoundly iniquitous.
Secular state
Interviewed in the Italian newspaper, Corriere de la Serra, Cardinal Lopez Trujillo said the Church was making an urgent call for freedom of conscience for Roman Catholics and appealing to them to resist the law.
He said every profession linked with implementing homosexual marriages should oppose it, even if it meant losing their jobs.
The cardinal insisted that just because something was made law it did not make it right.
Socialist Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero took office a year ago making it clear he intended to remove what he called the church's undeniable advantages and make Spain a secular state.
There are likely to be further tensions with Pope Benedict XVI. Mr Zapatero has made it clear that he intends to streamline divorce law and even to relax the conditions placed on abortion.
Sorry I said that wrong. I feel he should first make a statement that the catholic church will clean out the nest of gay liberals that have infiltrated. Have you listen to glenn beck on this issue.
An idiotic statement refuted by the actions of these protestant molesters, dipstick.
again i'm sorry because of the superlative. I don't know how to edit or i would. i was refered here by a fellow bush fan from yahoo. again i'm sorry and will be more careful. It seems it's less free flowing here and i wish she would have warned me.
Cheers to you as well. I just think it is a dumb strategy given their point of view, beyond of course disagreeing with it from my point of view.
If they participate in this, they're not all that faithful. You wouldn't know.
Registered since when, troll?
Damn! This pope is doing a great job!
What is your explanation for all those protestant molesters.
And this was his first order of business... !
"Pope Benedict XVI has responded firmly to the first challenge of his papacy by condemning a Spanish government bill allowing marriage between homosexuals "
The media was disappointed that the new Pope is not younger
and more progressive... :o)
That would depend on what the imams would perceive to be to their advantage. To weaken Christian faith, they would "encourage" this type of thing as "tolerance", but when they felt that Christianity was sufficiently weakened, then the velvet glove would come off, revealing the mailed fist concealed therein. It is a form of "Taqqiya", the practice of deliberate deception to gain a momentary advantage for Islam...
the infowarrior
Eventually this will lead to war. And not just in Spain.
American Catholics are also fighting.
Are you insinuating that the Catholic church should be more "tolerant" of sin?
There is no negotiating with evil Torie.
You just couldn't stay in the closet now could you?
Well, as a non-Christian non-Republican I'd have to say that you're a jerk.
I see you've aready been enlightened of the falseness of your "Cathoics have all the molesters" statement.
And WTF do "Gay Republicans" have to do with a Papal statement about Spain anyway?
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