Buenos Aires, Argentina, Nov 7, 2009 / 17:56 pm
The executive committee of the Bishops’ Conference of Argentina has called on the National Parliament to protect authentic marriage based on the union between one man and one woman.
“To affirm heterosexuality as a requirement for marriage is not to discriminate, but rather to start from an objective point that is its presupposition. The contrary would be to ignore its essence, that is, that which it is,” the bishops said.
The heterosexuality of marriage is not a private matter or religious choice, they stressed, “but a reality that has its roots in the very nature of the human person, who is male and female.”
The bishops recalled that this natural reality precedes positive law, and for this reason it is the duty of lawmakers to legally protect marriage, which is the foundation of the family. Both, they said, have been protected from the very beginnings of humanity by civilized society.