From: "Midex" 

On Mar 18, 9:19 pm, "Sound of Trumpet"
 wrote:
> http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1799776/posts
>
> Vatican Prelate: Catholics will "do everything possible" to prevent
> Homosexual Civil Unions
>
> LifeSiteNews ^ | 3/12/07 | Gudrun Schultz
>
> Posted on 03/12/2007 5:22:07 PM PDT by wagglebee
>
> VATICAN CITY, March 12, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Legislation
> permitting de facto and same-sex unions would be so damaging to family
> life and society that Catholics will do "everything possible" to
> ensure the laws do not pass, the head of the Pontifical Academy for
> Life said last week.
>
> "Catholics will do everything to shed light on the debate, and will do
> everything possible so that these proposals will not pass," said
> Bishop Elio Sgreccia, during a press conference at Vatican Radio.
> "Everything based on untruths is destined to damage someone, if not
> many people."
>
> Zenit News Agency reported March 7 on Bishop Sgreccia comments at the
> Rome launch of a book on the issue by Carlo Casini, a European
> Parliamentary member representing Italy. Casini's book was titled
> "Unioni di fatto, matrimonio, figli: tra ideologia e realtà" (De Facto
> Unions, Marriage, Children: Between Ideology and Facts), published in
> Italian by Società Editrice Fiorentina.
>
> Bishop Sgreccia said the Church's objections to de facto unions simply
> upheld laws established by international and national legislation,
> recognizing the family as the foundation of human society. The bishop
> referred to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights where it states
> that "the family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society
> and is entitled to protection by society and the state."
>
> "If family stability is weakened, the fundamental group unit of
> society is also weakened," Bishop Sgreccia said.
>
> Homosexual unions would go "against a law of nature," he said, since
> "in the corporality of man and woman there is written natural and
> structural complementarity pertaining to emotional life, sexual life
> and the procreation of children."
>
> "Natural law expresses the good sense" of that union between a man and
> a woman, Bishop Sgreccia said.
>
> Further, the family is essential for economic health and social
> progress.
>
> "If we wish to see an economy that has as its main unit family health,
> then we must take into account that the de facto families,
> constitutionally precarious, are the source, as well as divorce and
> separations, of social and economic instability."
>
> Far from encouraging the establishment of de facto unions, "the state
> would do well in helping youth by teaching them the formation of a
> true family, with a civic or religious marriage, but stable, and with
> an eased access to house and work."
>
> "This is where the money should be spent," said the bishop,
"and not
> creating marital precariousness."
>
> Permitting legal unions apart from marriage injures young people by
> "placing them in a situation that does not give security, that does
> not give stability or serenity."
>
> At the same time, legalizing homosexual unions does not address the
> real needs of people dealing with same-sex attraction, the bishop
> said.
>
> "[G]ay pride certainly does not help them in overcoming their
> suffering, which instead must be faced with human understanding, with
> medical and psychological sciences, and with promotional attitudes of
> all the good qualities that exist in these persons."
>
> See related LifeSiteNews coverage:
>
> Vatican Bishop: Humanity Heading for
"Self-Genocide"http://www.lifesite.net/l
dn/2007/jan/07012607.html
>
> Bishop Sgreccia Named President of Pontifical Academy For
Lifehttp://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2005/jan/05010308.html


So lets kill all the muslims? Even though they had nothing to do with 9/11?

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