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Sees Government Conspiracy to Attack the Family |
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Thursday,
November 18, 1999 |
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BY
PEGGY FLETCHER STACK
THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE
GENEVA -- Pope John
Paul II has uncovered a conspiracy among
the world's parliaments and governments
to attack the family, a Vatican
representative told the World Congress of
Families II on Wednesday.
"People who
forget the family and don't support it
with their laws and permit bonds to be
broken are conducting an assault on the
future of mankind," said Alfonso
Cardinal Lopez Trujillo, a native of
Colombia who is president of the
Pontifical Council for the Family.
Trujillo spoke to
1,500 delegates who gathered to discuss
what they perceive as attacks on the
"natural" family. While he
mentioned a global conspiracy, he did not
single out any conspirators.
"Much of what is
being done to destroy the family will
tomorrow be the subject of shame just as
today we are ashamed of slavery and
apartheid," he said. "The near
future society will be ashamed of not
protecting the natural institution."
Some say motherhood
"is a form of slavery," but
that is not true, Trujillo said.
"Women have every
right to make something of
themselves," he said, "but she
should not forget who she is. She has
certain values and she educates the
world."
Trujillo condemned
Latin American governments that recognize
what he called "de facto
unions," or common-law marriages.
"These simply
mean the desire to come together without
any goal of establishing a permanent
union or the future or of giving,"
he said. "Some want to adopt
legislation that these unions have a
great scope that has been reserved for
families alone."
Trujillo also attacked
the idea of recognizing same-sex unions.
"This is supposed
to ensure no discrimination," he
said. "But [such a union has] no
fertility and is not the design of God.
There should always be a union of the
flesh and of life."
And adoptions by gay
and lesbian couples are bad for children,
he said.
The family is not the
outcome of dialogue in parliament,
Trujillo said, "but it is the design
of God and the basis of everything. It
has its roots in man's hearts." |
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