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Large demonstration in Madrid in favour of the family
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By h.b. - Dec 30, 2007 - 2:17 PM
The gathering was called for by the Bishops of Spain
Thousands of people demonstrated in the centre of Madrid on Sunday in favour of the family. The demonstration was called in the Plaza de Colón, by the Bishops’ Organisation, La Conferencia Episcopal Española, and lead by the Cardinal Archbishop of Madrid, Antonio María Rouca Varela, in favour of the ‘Christian family’, and saw coach loads of supporters being bussed in from across Spain and also Portugal.
Among the speakers, Cardinal Agustín García-Gasco who said that laicism was ‘a fraud which only leads to abortion’.
The President of the Conferencia Episcopal Española, and Bishop of Bilbao, Ricardo Blázquez said that the Christian family would last the passage of time as it is ‘traditional and of today and tomorrow’.
A video message from Pope Benedict XVI was shown to the gathering.
Meanwhile the Minister for Justice, Mariano Fernández Bermejo, has called on the Bishops to reflect after the Bishop of Tenerife, Bernardo Álvarez, compared homosexuality to child abuse, and said that there were teenagers who wanted to be abused and who provoked such abuse. The Minister said the Bishop’s statement was ‘enormously unfortunate’ and ‘difficult to digest’.
The General Secretary of Juan 23rd Theologians Association, Juan José Tamayo, accused the Bishop of Tenerife of ‘demonizing and blaming’ the adolescents who suffer sexual abuse and of excusing the paedophiles. He said the Bishop displayed a deep lack of knowledge of scientific investigations into sexuality, and was moving in a paradigm of homophobia. He added with statements like these it was not strange to see the discredit of the Catholic Church resulting in youngsters ‘leaving in droves as if it was the plague’.
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Large demonstration in Madrid in favour of the family
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By h.b. - Dec 30, 2007 - 2:17 PM
The scene in the Plaza de Colón this morning - Photo EFE
Thousands of people demonstrated in the centre of Madrid on Sunday in favour of the family. The demonstration was called in the Plaza de Colón, by the Bishops’ Organisation, La Conferencia Episcopal Española, and lead by the Cardinal Archbishop of Madrid, Antonio María Rouca Varela, in favour of the ‘Christian family’, and saw coach loads of supporters being bussed in from across Spain and also Portugal.
Among the speakers, Cardinal Agustín García-Gasco who said that laicism was ‘a fraud which only leads to abortion’.
The President of the Conferencia Episcopal Española, and Bishop of Bilbao, Ricardo Blázquez said that the Christian family would last the passage of time as it is ‘traditional and of today and tomorrow’.
A video message from Pope Benedict XVI was shown to the gathering.
Meanwhile the Minister for Justice, Mariano Fernández Bermejo, has called on the Bishops to reflect after the Bishop of Tenerife, Bernardo Álvarez, compared homosexuality to child abuse, and said that there were teenagers who wanted to be abused and who provoked such abuse. The Minister said the Bishop’s statement was ‘enormously unfortunate’ and ‘difficult to digest’.
The General Secretary of Juan 23rd Theologians Association, Juan José Tamayo, accused the Bishop of Tenerife of ‘demonizing and blaming’ the adolescents who suffer sexual abuse and of excusing the paedophiles. He said the Bishop displayed a deep lack of knowledge of scientific investigations into sexuality, and was moving in a paradigm of homophobia. He added with statements like these it was not strange to see the discredit of the Catholic Church resulting in youngsters ‘leaving in droves as if it was the plague’.
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AXJ-SPAIN
30 Dec 2007, 18:42
30 Dec 2007, 18:42
Apparently families in Spain don't like the PSOE political party nor
Zapatero. My vote is for AXJ.
hrh
30 Dec 2007, 22:32
30 Dec 2007, 22:32
Hypocrisy knows no bounds: Pope Sieg Heil, who parades around with his
long-time companion, I mean, secretary, and clads himself in Gucci
wraparounds, red Prada pumps and sequinned designer vestments dares to
lecture the world about those evil gays. Who does he think he's fooling?
Only those drinking his brand of Kool-Aid. You go, Girl!
bob
31 Dec 2007, 02:13
31 Dec 2007, 02:13
How very non judgemental of you hrh. Your the standard barer for tolerance.
MArk
01 Jan 2008, 09:45
01 Jan 2008, 09:45
Wow, Liberals claim to be tolerant of many things but bash those who
disagree with.
I was at the Family Rally yesterday and nothing what you just say hrh took place. It was a FAmilies celebrating ino honor of the Holy Fmaily.
I guess liberals have no brains! So much for Tolrant Liberals
I was at the Family Rally yesterday and nothing what you just say hrh took place. It was a FAmilies celebrating ino honor of the Holy Fmaily.
I guess liberals have no brains! So much for Tolrant Liberals
jaki
01 Jan 2008, 17:31
01 Jan 2008, 17:31
what a sorry excuse for a fertility occult,shame there's no real christians
speaking up,probably because the original christians have been persecuted
by these so called modern ones,bring back the phoenicians i say...
jack
04 Jan 2008, 21:00
04 Jan 2008, 21:00
i notice often that conservatives like to sit back smugly and say, "oh, you
liberals are soooo tolerant... hmph!" by comparison, yes we are - we don't
burn you at the stake for being assholes, even though it'd probably be a
good idea. we don't make your religious beliefs illegal, even though some
of those beliefs espouse death and violence. we don't institutionally
humiliate you for having blind faith in fairy tales, i mean parables...
yes, we are tolerant. if we weren't you'd not be sitting there so smugly
MArk
05 Jan 2008, 11:40
05 Jan 2008, 11:40
Hey thanks for the bashing JAck, about the Liberal Socialist in Venezuela
Hugo Chavez that Liberals love to talk about so much for us as you claim
"Burning at the stake" or Fidel's Castro Cuba? I am pretty sure that Hugo
Chavez would love a person like Liberals because he shut that any
opposition against him so much for tolerance huh jack?
Also another thing JAck My grandmother on my maternal side was from North Korea and half of her family died from the Advancing North Korean commies she was a Christian so that made it worst. She was in the labor camps in Pyongyang and escaped to South Korea two years later. She was imprisoned because she was Christian! The North Korean Gvt. was Atheist!
So much for Relgious violence huh JAck, My grandma-ma would love to tell her stories in that labor camp to you!
Also another thing JAck My grandmother on my maternal side was from North Korea and half of her family died from the Advancing North Korean commies she was a Christian so that made it worst. She was in the labor camps in Pyongyang and escaped to South Korea two years later. She was imprisoned because she was Christian! The North Korean Gvt. was Atheist!
So much for Relgious violence huh JAck, My grandma-ma would love to tell her stories in that labor camp to you!
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