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12.08.2008 8:47am EST
(Rome) Hundreds of protesters came out against the Vatican over the weekend, after the Holy See came out against a proposed United Nations declaration calling for LGBT civil rights.
The demonstrators, including some Italian politicians, gathered just outside Vatican City’s borders.The proposed UN declaration condemns “discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity” and will be presented at the General Assembly on Wednesday by France.
Dec. 10th was chosen to present it to the General Assembly because the date marks the 60th anniversary of the UN declaration of human rights.
The declaration already has been signed by the member states of the European Union. It was drafted by France, which currently holds the rotating EU Presidency.
The Vatican in a statement said the declaration would force countries to legalize same-sex marriage.
Archbishop Celestino Migliore, the Vatican’s permanent observer at the UN, said in the statement last week that the declaration would discriminate against states which support traditional marriage.
“If adopted, they would create new and implacable discriminations … For example, states which do not recognize same-sex unions as ‘matrimony’ will be pilloried and made an object of pressure,” Migliore said.
The Vatican has long been an opponent of LGBT rights – especially marriage.
It fought hard against same-sex marriage rights in Holland, Belgium, Spain, Canada and South Africa, all of which went on to legalize gay unions.
In the U.S., the Catholic Church was heavily involved in the fight against gay marriage in Massachusetts and Connecticut, both of which now allow gay marriage, and was instrumental in the passage of Proposition 8, which overturned the California Supreme Court ruling allowing same-sex marriage in that state.
In October, the Church said it was considering psychological testing for prospective priests to screen out candidates “with strong homosexual tendencies” and heterosexuals “unable to control their sexual urges.”
More than 80 nations have laws denying or limiting LGBT civil rights. Some Muslim countries impose the death penalty on homosexuality while others have lengthy prison sentences.
Might as well protest the sun coming up in the morning.
The Roman PAGAN FERTILITY CULT is NEVER going to change its “laws” regarding GLBT people.
Like the Mormons (ANOTHER pagan fertility cult), the Romans have to reproduce like crazy because they can’t make enough converts and thinking adults are voting with their feet.
The Roman Church will cease to exist (at least as we know it) in a generation.
The average age of US priests is 59; Los Angeles, one of the largest dioceses, ordained ONE man to replace the twenty-some-odd who died or retired in the same year.
Do the math.
Unless they allow married priests, women priests, AND gay priests, in twenty years they won’t HAVE any priests … gay, straight, or whatever.
But Maledict the XVI doesn’t give a rosy red rat’s rectum … all he cares about is preserving John Paul One Too Many’s legacy of hate and discrimination.
Miss Gucci-Pumps-and-Belgian-Lace-Albs can osculate my superannuated homosexual posterior.
Bud Burgoon-Clark
2nd class citizen, on account of the “pope” and konstipated konservative kristianist kultist krazies (KKKKK)
I get so fed up, as I am sure millions of others do with the Catholic Church denouncing the validity of homosexual unions and relationships. So what the Church is now saying to me is that by their not agreeing to the proposed United Nations declaration, then they are condoning further discrimination against Gay people. In the event that this resolution does go through then, can the Church turnaround and then say “well, we did not agree to it, so therefore we can do what we want”. And so the discrimination, hatred, abuse and even murder continue all in the name of a Church that claims it is all for Christ.
Is ANYONE surprised that the Catholic and The Poop are against LGBT rights? How does this adherence to an established policy of discrimination constitute news? Seems to me to be more of the “same old same old” crap from the Catholic Church and The Poop. They continue to live the high life, steal from the poor, and rant against the “queers”. Sounds like business a usual to me.