A senior Catholic cardinal has
criticized gay marriage as undermining the institution of the family.
At a meeting of Italian bishops on
Monday, Cardinal Angelo Bagnasco appeared to criticize a proposal to
allow gay and lesbian couples to enter civil partnerships in Italy.
“It is irresponsible to weaken the
family by creating new forms,” Bagnasco told bishops meeting in
Assisi in Umbria, according to The
Telegraph.
“It only confuses people and has the
effect of being a sort of Trojan horse, undermining culturally and
socially the core of humanity.”
Children “have a right to a mother
and a father,” he added, without an explanation as to how gay
unions hurt children.
Bagnasco, the head of the Italian
Bishops Conference and archbishop of Genoa, made his remarks after
several mayors, including Rome
Mayor Ignazio Marino, began recognizing the foreign marriages of
gay couples and lawmakers introduced a proposal to legalize civil
partnerships in Italy.
So, let's run down the list again:
Doesn't say how gay unions hurt children.
Doesn't believe gay people should be able to have any kind of recognized union, but doesn't explain why that would be harmful to straight couples.
Doesn't offer any explanation on how gay people in a relationship effects or weakens heterosexual ones.
Then again, what should one think when just 60 years men just like him were standing shoulder to shoulder with Nazi's and chanting Sieg heil...family values indeed.
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