BISHOPS SAY RECOGNITION OF HOMOSEXUAL CIVIL UNIONS IS AN ATTACK ON FAMILY

VATICAN, October 15, 2002 (LSN.ca) – A document on life and family drawn up by Catholic Bishops from 25 Latin American countries last month was released by the Vatican Friday.  The document is a declaration stemming from the September 1-5 Latin American bishops meeting to address the “Situation and Perspectives of Family and Life in America.”  Addressing itself in particular to legislative and judicial leaders of the continent, the declaration notes that “due to strong ideological pressure, there is the intention to dismantle piece by piece the structure of the family based on marriage.” The bishops warn that “The future of humanity will not be possible without the recognition and respecting the values of the natural institution of the family.”  The declaration says that the bishops are “deeply afflicted” by the giving of legal recognition to extra-marital civil unions and even worse to those ‘unions’ between homosexuals.  “To recognize these other types of unions and to compare them to the family are to discriminate it and to attack (the family),” it says.  The bishops remind politicians of the “necessity to act” to protect and promote life and family.  See the full declaration in Spanish at:  https://www.vatican.va/cgi-bin/w3-msql/news_services/bulletin/news/12034.html?index=12034&po_date=11.10.2002&lang=en