Vatican Declares 'War' On Spain Over Gay Marriage
Pink Press - 04 October 2004
The Vatican's top official for family issues Sunday decried as a "sad step" the Spanish government's proposal to allow homosexuals to marry and adopt children.

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The Vatican's top official for family issues Sunday decried as a "sad step" the Spanish government's proposal to allow homosexuals to marry and adopt children. The remarks on Vatican Radio by Cardinal Alfonso Lopez Trujillo, president of the Pontifical Council for the Family, kept up Pope John Paul II's campaign against gay marriage. Spain's Cabinet proposed the measure Friday despite opposition by the influential Roman Catholic Church. "With this proposed law, nothing is left in the definition of marriage," the cardinal said. "They invent a new definition, implicitly an alternative to marriage." He denounced the proposal, which has been endorsed by Socialist Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, as a "sad step." He also criticized European nations that already have legalized gay unions. Belgium and the Netherlands have legalized gay marriage, and Sweden and Denmark have laws recognizing civil unions of gay couples. "They present it as if it were a conquest of modernity and of democracy, but really they are falling into deep dehumanization," Lopez Trujillo said. The cardinal was asked about the proposed Spanish law's provision to permit homosexual couples to adopt children. "They say that there are lots of studies by psychologists which show that children are happy in this type of couple, but that's a lie, because we have different studies which show the contrary," Lopez Trujillo said
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