Madrid, Spain, Jan 9, 2005 / 22:00 pm
Archbishop Fernando Sebastian of Pamplona and General Secretary of the Bishops Conference of Spain is warning that the possible legalization of homosexual “marriage” and its equivalency in rights with unions between a man and a woman will undermine the basic pillars of the family as well as those of Spanish society.
Archbishop Sebastian called on Spanish society to “defend” itself and to reject “through all legitimate means” the bill which the Government is pushing, which “in no way can be understood or justified as an act of service toward the common good.”
He also warned that Spain would suffer “a true epidemic of homosexuality” if the boundaries between “homo” and “hetero” are socially and politically dissolved and the idea of “the one is as good as the other” is strengthened.
The Archbishop of Pamplona pointed out that although they are equal in rights, men and women are not same, nor are homosexuals and heterosexuals. To deny this reality could be “a source of psychological problems and painful frustrations.”