AMERICA/PERU - “To break the natural law is not a cry of freedom, it is an irresponsible attack on human nature and on society and children in particular and the very future of society” Bishops of Peru defend the family

Monday, 11 July 2005

Lima (Fides Service ) - In a statement “The Bishops of Peru defend the Family” issued on 7 July, the Catholic Bishops of Peru expressed solidarity with the Bishops of Spain and they defend the institution of the family seriously undermined by a new law recently approved in Spain which legalises homosexual “marriage” and puts same sex unions on the same terms as marriage between and man and a woman giving homosexual couples to right to adopt children.
In the statement the Bishops recall that mankind was created male and female and that this distinction in nature cannot be subject to personal or political ideas or opinions. The Bishops say “God told man and women to increase and multiply and only to their union he entrusted the gift of transmitting and nurturing life”. The Bishops recall that “the family, basic cell of society is made up of a man and a woman and the children born of this union the fruit of intimate communion of love between mother and father; this natural ambit of human development is above any circumstances or whims of people or times and is the guarantee for the perpetuation of the human species”. Therefore “to break the law of nature is not a cry of freedom instead it is an irresponsible attack on human nature, on society and children in particular and on the very future of society”. Indeed “it is a new form of violation of the child’s right to develop in a natural environment”.
The Bishops end their statement with a call to individuals, society and nations to “shoulder their responsibility to protect the integrity of human life, the family and childhood and not to allow these circunstances - those indicated - to continue to attack the human person, the family and society”. (RZ) (Agenzia Fides 11/7/2005, righe 22, parole 329)


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