Mar 7, 2008 / 15:05 pm
The Archbishop of Valencia, Cardinal Agustin Garcia-Gasco, wrote in his weekly letter that the family should never be the object of experimentation, and he warned that human dignity is “threatened when marriage between a man and a woman is weakened in the legislation of the State, thus producing confusion in society.”
The cardinal called for human rights and the family to be defended,” because the family is a natural reality that arises from the complimentarity between man and woman in the task of procreating and raising children,” according to the AVAN news agency.
Likewise, he explained that civil liberties “cannot be argued in order to strip the contents of marriage and the family institution, reducing them to mere voluntary associations.”
He pointed to terrorism first and warned that “the ignorance and scorn for human rights has led to insulting acts of barbarism for the conscience of humanity,” and is common among those who practice terrorism or who defend it or who come to see terrorists as valid representatives of society.”