Mexico City, Mexico, Mar 3, 2005 / 22:00 pm
During a press conference the Bishops Conference of Mexico issued a request that the Secretariat of Health modify a campaign against homophobia because by centering it on a “false anthropological basis,” it ends up promoting homosexuality.
The president of the Bishop’s Committee on the Family, Bishop Rodrigo Aguilar, said that while tolerance of homosexual persons should be fostered, the ads produced by the campaign make homosexuality appear natural and present it “as a legitimate personal choice.”
Bishop Aguilar said the anthropological basis of the campaign is “false and deceptive,” because it twists “concepts and language,” although its authors say it is based on pluralism, tolerance and non-discrimination.
The bishop noted that the Church affirms that “homosexual persons have all of the dignity that corresponds to them has human persons,” and that therefore they should be respected and not discriminated against.