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Gay
Adoption "Destroy's the Child's Future" and is "An Act of Moral Violence
Against the Child"
Vatican, 3rd May 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) - On the first business day
after meeting privately with newly elected Pope Benedict XVI, Cardinal
Alfonso López Trujillo, gave one of the strongest statements defending the
traditional family in recent memory. The Cardinal, who was
reinstated in his post as President of the Pontifical Council for the
Family which he held under Pope John Paul II just after the election of
Pope Benedict, met with the Pope Friday and on Monday gave an extensive
interview to Fides news service on the subject of homosexual
'marriage'.
Homosexual 'Marriage'
Cardinal Trujillo said parliaments which "open the way for same sex
'marriage' . . . destroy piece by piece the institution of the
family the most valuable heritage of peoples and humanity." He
explained, "In these unions there are no promises for the partners or for
the children, no stability, nothing before society or God, but they demand
all the benefits of authentic marriage."
Homosexual Adoption
Asked about allowing same sex couples to adopt children, the Cardinal
answered, "This would destroy the child's future, it would be an act of
moral violence against the child."
He said, "They say that children adopted by two people of the same sex
are very happy. A child may be for a couple of years but when the child
reaches the age of reason, when he grows up and becomes a young adult, how
tragic it will be for him to let his friends know that his 'parents' are
two women or two men? This situation endangers the child's personality,
balance, harmony."
No Unjust Discrimination
The head of the Pontifical Council for the Family also repeated the
Church's teaching that homosexual persons are to be treated with respect.,
but added that they should be assisted as far as possible to overcome
their disordered inclinations. "As I have said many times,
homosexual peoples must be respected, loved and assisted. We must help
them overcome this situation if they seriously want to and help them
realise that there is not only life on earth, there is another life. The
Church does not wish to see these 'couples' suffer discrimination, or
humiliation, jeered at or treated without respect. They are human persons
and we must love them. It is false to say that the Church does not love
these people. She loves them and wants to lead them to eternal
salvation."
Duty to Refuse to Participate
Cardinal Trujillo also spoke of conscientious objection. "This
means a person can use his or her right to object out of conscience and
refuse to comply with this crime which represents the destruction of the
world."
The Cardinal went further noting a duty to refuse to participate in
homosexual unions comparing it to the duty of Christian doctors "who
refuse to carry out abortions". He said, "All Christians, including state
employees, have a duty to avail themselves of conscientious objection
because the law of which we are speaking inflicts a deep moral wound on
the Christian faith."
Countries Which Would not Tolerate Conscientious Objection
Denounced
"It would be pure totalitarianism if a person were sacked for
conscientious objection." The strong condemnation would already
apply to certain Canadian provinces where, while ministers of religion are
not forced to perform homosexual 'marriages' as of yet, civil marriage
ministers are required to under pain of job loss.
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