Organization launches campaign to fight homosexual unions in Chile
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Santiago, Chile, Dec 15, 2008 / 06:05 pm (CNA).- The organization, Muevete Chile has launched a campaign to stop the Senate committee from approving a measure that would open the door to homosexual unions under of the banner of “non-discrimination.”

“With the approval of this project, a negative domino effect will unleash the approval of other measures that are waiting, such as a measure on same-sex unions,” the organization warned.

After pointing out that the family is based on the union between man and woman and is a “non-negotiable” principle, Muevete Chile called on voters to express their rejection of the new measure.

“This measure has not been promoted by voters, but by the gay-lesbian-transsexual-bisexual lobby, which has been pressuring senators for three years,” the organization stated.  Muevete Chile also added that in “the name of non-discrimination,” “people of good faith, politicians committed to the common good, Christians, priests and pastors are persecuted and punished for merely reading passages from the Old Testament that condemn homosexuals.”

“This measure uses the subtleties and subjectivity of language in order to approve homosexual conduct and contemplates punishing with fines and imprisonment those accused of arbitrarily discriminating,” it warned.

Muevete Chile said the dignity of persons, “whether they are homosexual or not, does not mean approving homosexual acts and much less the legalization of marriage between homosexuals.”

“Civil laws have an important and sometimes determining role in the promotion of a mentality and of customs, which affect society for good or for evil depending on their content,” the group stated.

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Published by: Manny
United States on America 12/16/2008 10:30 AM EST
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Banner of discrimination? So what about discriminating against pedophiles, people with homicidal tendencies who commit unspeakable crimes, arsonists or those who find themselves compelled to steal. How are we to organize our society? Shall we follow the whims of every unorthodox tendency? Are some conducts just unbearable, sick and damaging to the social body? Would homosexual unions be one of those? Shall we promote bestiality? Who and how has the right to determine what kind of conduct is or is not to be tolerated in our society? If it be deemed to be the same social body then let's practice a plebiscite and hold to it's outcome. Of course it is necessary to DISCRIMINATE and you know why, because there are things that are good and things that are bad. Elemental Dr. Watson.
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Published by: Fabrizio
Italy 12/16/2008 02:57 AM EST
Catherine,

there is no such thing as the "institutional" Catholic Church, as opposed to all the rest. As Pope Benedict and all Popes taught, "In the Church, the institution is not merely an external structure while the Gospel is purely spiritual. In fact, the Gospel and the Institution are inseparable because the Gospel has a body, the Lord has a body in this time of ours. Consequently, issues that seem at first sight merely institutional are actually theological and central, because it is a matter of the realization and concretization of the Gospel in our time.(nov 9, 2006)". The defense of marriage against these abuses is a DUTY of all Catholics worthy of the name and all people of good will as the Council urged: "the Church must work vigorously in order that men may become capable of rectifying the distortion of the temporal order and directing it to God through Christ." (Decree Apostolicam Actuositatem). That's the Council that actually took place, not the fiction which was used to plague and sterilize the Church in the last 40 years
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Published by: Catherine Mary Henry
Archdiocese of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania USA 12/15/2008 07:28 PM EST
Neither can the institutional Roman Catholic Church oppose necessary bans on discrimination and/or violence against homosexuals, whether in Chile or at the United Nations in New York, under the guise or banner of preventing homosexual unions.
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