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theHandpuppet

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Tue Jun 24, 2014, 10:32 PM Jun 2014

Vatican observer to the U.N. denounces gay marriage & families

Even under attack, family shows its importance, Vatican official says
By Cindy Wooden
24 June 2014

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The continuing strength of many traditional families around the world and the longing of many people to have such a family demonstrate that “despite past or even current challenges, the family, in fact, is the fundamental unit of human society,” said the Vatican observer to U.N. agencies in Geneva.

Addressing the U.N. Human Rights Council June 24, Archbishop Silvano Tomasi said the family “continually exhibits a vigor much greater than that of the many forces that have tried to eliminate it as a relic of the past or an obstacle to the emancipation of the individual or to the creation of a freer, egalitarian and happy society.”...

...Debates about “the nature and definition of the family” at the Human Rights Council and other U.N. agencies often give the impression that “the family is more of a problem than a resource to society,” the archbishop said. Yet “most people find unique protection, nurture and dynamic energy from their membership in a strong and healthy family founded upon marriage between a man and a woman.”

And at a time when many countries are debating same-sex marriage, he said, “ample evidence has demonstrated that the best interest of the child is assured in a harmonious family environment in which the education and formation of children develop within the context of lived experience with both male and female parental role models.”

MORE at http://www.todayscatholicnews.org/2014/06/even-under-attack-family-shows-its-importance-vatican-official-says/



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Vatican observer to the U.N. denounces gay marriage & families (Original Post) theHandpuppet Jun 2014 OP
*sigh* Evidence doesn't show that at all Prophet 451 Jun 2014 #1
Unfortunately this is just the latest signal from the Vatican... theHandpuppet Jun 2014 #2

Prophet 451

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1. *sigh* Evidence doesn't show that at all
Tue Jun 24, 2014, 10:36 PM
Jun 2014

Actual research says that kids raised by same-sex parents turn out just fine. That's been shown in numerous longitudinal studies and has been endorsed by every psychological and pediatric organisation in the developed world. If they want to talk about the single best environment for raising kids, that's the extended family where grandparents, aunts, uncles and siblings all pitch in to help raise the kids.

theHandpuppet

(19,964 posts)
2. Unfortunately this is just the latest signal from the Vatican...
Tue Jun 24, 2014, 11:14 PM
Jun 2014

... that emboldens those who seek validation for the persecution of LGBTs. From Archbishop Cordileone as a guest speaker at the NOM march (and saying he had the blessing of the Pope in his efforts) to Archbishop Tomasi denouncing gay marriage and families in addressing the UN Human Rights Council, the message has been sent that the war on LGBTs will continue. Further, I can speculate that the bishops and archbishops in places like Uganda and Nigeria, who have supported vicious anti-gay legislation, will have nothing to fear for their part in LGBT persecution.

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