Cardinal-elect Fernanco Sebastian Aguilar, a Pope Francis appointee
Posted on 02/10/2014 1:42:21 PM PST by Mrs. Don-o
MADRID, Spain- A Spanish prosecutor has agreed to investigate Cardinal-elect Fernando Sebastian Aguilar after a national homosexualist group launched a legal action against him last month, accusing him of hate speech for calling homosexuality a “defective way of expressing sexuality.”
Aguilar, recently named as a cardinal-elect by Pope Francis, told the Spanish newspaper Diario Sur January 20 that sex “has a structure and a purpose, which is procreation.” Cardinal-elect Fernando Sebastián Aguilar with Pope Francis
“A homosexual who can’t achieve procreation is failing,” he said. “Our bodies have many defects. I have high blood pressure, a defect I have to try and correct in whatever way I can.”
Members of Colegas, the homosexual group behind the complaint, say that the Cardinal-elect’s words "clearly incit[e] hate and discrimination,” a crime that they say violates constitutional guarantees.
“Spain is a modern country and a secular one, and these types of declarations from the church have to be punished because [members of the church] are the least qualified to talk about sexual deficiencies, above all because they have hidden cases of child abuse and paedophilia,” Colegas president Antonio Ferre said after filing the complaint.
Public prosecutor Juan Carlos Lopez has begun a preliminary inquiry "to clarify whether the allegations constitute a criminal offence,” reported AFP.
According to Colegas, this is the first time such an investigation has been opened.
The Catechism of the Catholic Church, the official compendium of Catholic doctrine, states that while the “psychological genesis” of homosexuality “remains largely unexplained,” nevertheless, homosexual acts are “acts of grave depravity.”
“Tradition has always declared that homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered. They are contrary to the natural law. They close the sexual act to the gift of life. They do not proceed from a genuine affective and sexual complementarity. Under no circumstances can they be approved,” the Catechism states.
The Cardinal needs to be speak boldly a be willing to go to jail for it. The Pope needs to rally the sleeping Catholics of the world. Leaders of Catholic nations and Christian nations in general need to unanimously condemn this.
THIS is why I oppose Russian homosexual “propaganda” laws, when you give government the power to forbid speech based on a religious view, don’t complain when the governments religion does not match yours. Oddly enough, among all the nations of the world, America is virtually alone in having true free speech. We need to preserve this at all costs.
It’s a God-sent opportunity to witness for the truth: a “teachable moment,” worth a priest’s or bishop’s weight in gold. I hope our fathers in the Faith will use this to the max.
I strongly agree on free speech FOR ALL. See mine at #42.
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