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Posted on 09/25/2010 11:05:41 AM PDT by markomalley
MEXICO CITY, September 24, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The Cardinal Archbishop of Mexico City is refusing to retract his statements condemning homosexual behavior, despite a complaint filed against him with the federal government's National Council to Prevent Discrimination (Contrapred).
Multiple complaints before various government agencies were filed in August against Rivera, his spokesman Hugo Valdemar, and Cardinal Juan Sandoval Iñiguez by Mexico City Mayor Marcelo Ebrard and fellow members of the socialist Party of the Democratic Revolution in response to statements they made denouncing the homosexualist and abortionist policies of the Mexico City government and the nation's Supreme Court.
The complaint filed against Rivera with Contrapred is based on his statement denouncing the Supreme Court's approval of homosexual "marriage," calling it an "immoral legal reform," and declaring that the Catholic Church "cannot cease to call evil, evil."
"Such immoral activity can never be the equivalent of the sexual expression of conjugal love, because it endangers the dignity and the rights of the family that constitute the common good of the society," he added.
In his official response to the complaint, Rivera maintains his ground, saying that his statements on homosexual "marriage" and adoption cannot be compromised because "our posture emanates from our religious creed, that is, from our conscience," according to quotes published in the Mexico City newspaper Milenio.
Rivera reportedly denies the accusation of "discrimination," and says that his statements made "use of religious liberty," a right protected under the Mexican Constitution's Article 24. The government, he says, "cannot censure nor diminish our religious liberty."
When "a person expresses his opposition, following the doctrine of his religion, to a particular regulation or reform," writes Rivera, "it is not possible to limit his religious liberty, and for that reason the minister of worship or layman has the right to express his opinions regarding religious matters, as long as they do not attack the security, order, health or public morals, or the rights or liberties of others" - conditions he says his statements have met.
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Mexico has a habit of lining priests up against a wall.
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The Cardinal Archbishop deserves our support.
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Pinging both lists because this man is a true hero - standing up for moral absolutes - marriage,family, religious freedom and the Law of Nature - against the federal government of Mexico which enacted same sex marriage. He is courageous and everyone should take heart from his example, whether Catholic, Protestant, Jew, Hindu, or no particular faith. Stand up for the truth! Note my tagline!
They’re wrong.
Cardinal Archbishop Rivera is a very brave man.
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The condemnation of homosexuality is a religious position.
It just means that it’s really important info. This is a whiff of what’s coming.
It is also a moral one.
Multiple complaints before various government agencies were filed in August against Rivera, his spokesman Hugo Valdemar, and Cardinal Juan Sandoval Iñiguez by Mexico City Mayor Marcelo Ebrard and fellow members of the socialist Party of the Democratic Revolution in response to statements they made denouncing the homosexualist and abortionist policies of the Mexico City government and the nation's Supreme Court.
Sounds to me like he's trying to tell the Mexican government what to do about an issue. Sounds like political pressure (in support of a religious ideal, granted) to me.
And we know (/sarc) that religion should stay out of politics 
You mean to tell me that we are not only being overrun by criminals from Mexico, we are being overrun by faggot criminals from Mexico?!
Very few Americans are aware that the Mexican government openly oppressed the Catholic Church from the 1820s to the 1990s, when the laws against the Church were technically suspended. The Mexican elites seem to be interested in going back to default mode.
Exactly. Bravery is needed big time.
Condemnation of homosexuality is also a common sense position, a Natural Law position, a health position. To try to stuff it into "well that's your religion and I don't believe it" is nonsense.
Mexico had a little problem with socialists in the 1920’s..
They had no problem executing priests and lay Catholics.
"As well as a rational one. Self destructive behavior is ungood...
Mexico was one of the first communist inspired states way back in the eighteen hundreds.
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