VATICAN CITY, Dec 2 (Reuters) - Gay rights groups and newspaper editorials on Tuesday condemned the Vatican for its decision to oppose a proposed U.N. resolution calling on governments worldwide to de-criminalise homosexuality.So if you're not against it, you must be for it.
The row erupted after the Vatican's permanent observer to the United Nations told a French Catholic news agency the Holy See would oppose the resolution, which France is due to propose later this month on behalf of the 27-member European Union.
Archbishop Celestino Migliore said the Vatican opposed the resolution because it would "add new categories of those protected from discrimination" and could lead to reverse discrimination against traditional heterosexual marriage.
"If adopted, they would create new and implacable discriminations," Migliore said. "For example, states which do not recognise same-sex unions as 'matrimony' will be pilloried and made an object of pressure," Migliore said.
A strongly worded editorial in Italy's mainstream La Stampa newspaper said the Vatican's reasoning was "grotesque".
Pointing out that homosexuality was still punishable by death in some Islamic countries, the editorial said what the Vatican really feared was a "chain reaction in favour of legally recognised homosexual unions in countries, like Italy, where there is currently no legislation".
1. Rather than protect those homosexuals who are actively being murdered by law, rather than ask to de-criminalize homosexuality worldwide, the Vatican chooses to protect what might happen, then to stop what is actually happening. Why would they care about marriage when the root of the resolution is to end murder?
So Nations that kill gays, according to the Vatican's view, are OK. Jesus would give his thumbs up. Son of God is cool with it. The infallible Pope can't be wrong on this one.
2. What does the US Catholic Church, with its 40% gay clergy, have to say about this?
Source: Reuters Africa
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