A Vatican representative to the United Nations spoke out today against “attacks” on freedom of conscience and religion, directed against Catholics and others who hold traditional beliefs about sexual morality and human nature.The Archbishop made the distinction between people's thoughts and feelings and their behavior. Countries cannot, he said, regulate the former, but the latter must be regulated because sexual activity has a moral dimension. Some activities must be restricted. He gave the examples of incest and pedophilia.
Archbishop Silvano M. Tomasi spoke out in a March 22 meeting of the U.N. Human Rights Council, calling attention to what he described as a “disturbing trend” in debates over social life and human rights.
“People are being attacked for taking positions that do not support sexual behavior between people of the same sex,” Archbishop Tomasi told the council.
“When they express their moral beliefs or beliefs about human nature, which may also be expressions of religious convictions, or state opinions about scientific claims, they are stigmatized, and worse – they are vilified, and prosecuted.”
The archbishop stated that these attempts to silence Catholics, and other critics of homosexual practice, were a human rights violation according to the council's own standards. See more....
Homosexual activists are working hard to stifle criticism of their activies defining it as "hate speech." In Canada they have been so successful that Christians quoting the Bible about homosexual practices have been fined and imprisoned. Will it happen here? We're moving in that direction as "gay" activists "jam" anyone who dares to call their behavior immoral.
Sometimes the truth hurts. But not speaking it hurts more when souls and lives are at stake.
