jasJis Posted August 19, 2003 Share Posted August 19, 2003 Author: Lifesite News Date: Tuesday, August 19, 2003 South African, Polish and Philippine Bishops Praise Vatican Document on Homosexual Unions MANILA - While some Catholic Church leaders may be trepid about the Vatican's latest teaching on the subject of homosexual unions, bishops in South Africa, Poland and the Philippines have praised the document and presented it forcefully to their Catholic politicians. Following the release of the document late last month, the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) urged lawmakers not to pass any bill recognizing homosexual civil unions. The Manila Times reports that Msgr. Hernando Coronel, CBCP secretary-general, said the Philippine bishops "value and share the Vatican's stand". Msgr. Coronel said, "the bishops' conference urges the legislature to consider the law of God [and] natural law in formation of human law. The bishops appeal to the members of Congress not to legalize what is immoral, to legitimize what is unethical, to make human law that is contrary to divine law." In Poland, Catholic bishops read out excerpts of the text at a press conference in response to a radical proposal to legalize homosexual civil unions. "The idea is immoral and hurting to families and marriages," said Bishop Stanislaw Stefanek. "We strongly object to it." The South African Bishops' Conference (SABC) echoed the words of the Vatican in a statement emanating from a meeting of their conference last week. "At a time when family life is under significant stress, the principled defence of marriage is an urgent necessity for the wellbeing of children and families, and for the common good of society. Society owes its continued survival to the family. If same-sex unions were to be legalised, the concept of marriage would be shattered, to the detriment of the common good," they warned. "By putting homosexual unions on a legal plane equal to that of marriage and the family, the state acts against and in contradiction to its duties. For the state to grant legal standing to homosexual unions is for it to fail in its primary duty to promote and defend marriage as an institution essential to the common good." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carrie Posted August 20, 2003 Share Posted August 20, 2003 I'm glad some countries are willing to stand up for what's right! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yiannii Posted August 20, 2003 Share Posted August 20, 2003 Carrie Posted on Aug 19 2003, 09:18 PM I'm glad some countries are willing to stand up for what's right! AMEN to that! I have noticed from my peers (who don't believe in God) that you are looked down on if you want to marry and have kids. Strange world we are living in these days! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
littleflower+JMJ Posted August 20, 2003 Share Posted August 20, 2003 thats why im' so glad President Bush is doing what his doing and sticking to his guns about marriage also.... the sacredness of marriage is inDouche under attack, and it is upon our shoulders to speak up for what is right, because right now the world is screaming for what is wrong +JMJ :ph34r: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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