Nah, I'm too busy attacking the U.S. for executing condemned killers.
Posted on 01/14/2009 1:36:47 PM PST by wagglebee
MEXICO CITY, January 14, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The leadership of Mexico's socialist Social Democratic Party (PSD) has issued a demand to Mexico City's Cardinal Archbishop Norberto Rivera that he and the Church stop opposing its initiatives to legalize abortion, homosexual "marriage" and euthanasia, or face legal action.
The PSD is angered by the Cardinal's consistent reiteration of the Catholic Church's teachings on the sanctity of human life, sexual morality, and family values.
"It's an attack against our ideology, because they describe us as enemies of the family, deprecate legislation that depenalizes abortion, ignore the existence of same-sex couples, the practice of euthanasia, and they make fun of transsexuality," said the PSD's national president, Jorge Carlos Diaz, in a press conference.
"We are talking about a campaign that is going to be prolonged, because this is delicate and we will appear before the electoral agencies, because we will be confirming that there is a negative campaign against us, that we support ideas that differ from those of the Church," he added.
Diaz says that if the Church does not agree to cease denouncing his party's legislative initiatives, "we will report it to the Federal Electoral Institute (IFE) for proselytizing."
Mexico's Constitution prohibits the clergy from participating in politics, although it does not prohibit Church officials from teaching moral values. Although they were once applied with more severity, the Constitution's anti-clerical provisions are no longer seen as prohibiting the clergy from making statements analyzing the moral implications of legislation.
Mexico's prohibitions against participation in politics by the clergy were used to intimidate Cardinal Rivera in 2007, during the campaign to legalize abortion in Mexico City. After being threatened with an investigation into statements by the Cardinal and his priests opposing the measure, Rivera backed down from his threat to excommunicate city councilmen who voted for it.
Well, at least he understands what the issues are.
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What is this Orwellian gobbledygook?
If you think about it this reaction of theirs is a self-indictment ~ leftwing ideas are always screwy, cost too much, hurt too many people, murder the innocent, reward the guilty and open up the country for invasion by other powers.
Best thing Leftists can do for everyone is just jump from rooftops.
Well that is why they are on the verge of collapse...
ROMAN EMPIRE- Collapsed just fopr some of these same reasons...
I sure hope the USA takes heed....
This has to be satire. Please, please tell me it’s satire. No one is this stupid, this self-absorbed, this inane. I’m going to wake up soon, I know it.
First time in history that Christians were persecuted for their beliefs?
Will it be the last?
In the good ole USA the headline would read: Democrats Threaten Church for Opposing Abortion, Homosexual “Marriage," Euthanasia.
Another reason Mexico needs to be broken up or taken down.
Anyone is willing to bet what percentage Americans think the US Constitution does the same?
They are also the ones who think that the phrase "separation of church and state" is in the First Amendment.
Nah, I'm too busy attacking the U.S. for executing condemned killers.
Back in the 1930’s Mexico was imprisoning and even killing Catholic priests and nunms.
Catholic bump.
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