Posted on 01/01/2011 9:12:05 AM PST by marshmallow
MADRID — The Spanish city of Barcelona will erect a monument to gays, lesbians and transgendered people who have been persecuted and repressed "throughout history", it announced Thursday.
The exact site of the pink, triangular stone monument has not yet been decided, but a spokesman for the city hall said the square outside the Sacred Heart, or Sagrada Familia, basilica "is one location that has been proposed".
Pope Benedict XVI consecrated the city's emblematic Antonio Gaudi-designed church last month as hundreds of gays and lesbians staged a mass "kiss-in" to protest the Roman Catholic Church's stance on homosexuality.
A statement from the city hall Thursday said the monument would be unveiled in February.
It said the inscription will read "In memory of the gays, lesbians and transsexual people who have suffered persecution and repression throughout history. Barcelona 2011."
Such a tribute has been demanded for some years by Spain's LGTB gay rights association, the statement said.
Homosexuality was only legalised in Roman Catholic Spain in 1979, shortly after the death of dictator Francisco Franco whose regime shipped off gays to institutions that some activists have likened to concentration camps.
The Socialist government of Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero has sought to promote gay rights as part of a strongly liberal social agenda.
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Naturally.
Can you say "in your face, Catholic Church"??
The Catalan region, including Barcelona, is the epicenter of secularist, anti-Catholic feeling in Spain.
Was there a BARF ALERT on this one? Should have been...
Sexual deviants are now seen and worshipped as gods by the commie libs.
“strongly liberal”
that SHOULD be an oxymoron.
Except liberal doesn’t mean liberal anymore. It means leftist.
I think sidewalk vendors should start carrying asbestos suits.
Man, between this an the Muslims, Spain is really going off the deep end.
Now we have a monument to sexual orientation.
The Lord cannot come quickly enough. I may not be prepared for His coming tomorrow, but I do pray for it.
A statement from the city hall Thursday said... the inscription will read "In memory of the gays, lesbians and transsexual people who have suffered persecution and repression throughout history. Barcelona 2011."Thanks marshmallow.
Get with it world.....we already have ours, here in Seattle....although, it seems more about pederasty than anything else.
Where’s my monument? I’m working on baby #4, for pete’s sake now THAT’S hard work. And my feelings have been hurt in the past.....it seems like I’m as reasonable a candidate.
A history of taking it up the a$$.
If I make love to my horse will it be deviant enough to have a monument put up for me?
Next "normal" thinking will be considered a criminal offense.
An “erect monument”. This should be good. The perverts will love it. There are a lot of sick people in this world and I don’t think that all the socialist “healthcare” in the world can help them.
This monument must be for the gay men only because “erecting” anything for lesbians seems a little...insensitive.
Not going to sit well with the violent muslim extremists running spain
>>. I may not be prepared for His coming tomorrow, but I do pray for it.
What is there to prepare? He’s doing all the packing for us.
For a monument to bestiality you don't ride the horse, the horse rides you.
Most of the Catalan clergy are devoted to nothing but leftwing Catalan nationalism - which is why Catalunya has the lowest rate of church attendance in Spain. The Pope has been trying to appoint some good bishops there, but it’s an uphill fight, and the clergy is out of control.
There was one who was actually paying for abortions for teenage girls in his parish...and others who, when the Pope visited, let the gays have an anti-Pope event at the church of Santa Maria del Mar, one of Barcelona’s most symbolic churches.
One of the most difficult things about the Spanish situation is that the Church is very divided there, and in the nationalist areas (Catalunya and Pais Vasco) it has been nothing but a leftwing nationalist cheering section for years, and the bishops were either too weak to do anything about it or, in many cases, were sullen little
Liberation Theology types who thought it was a great thing.
On the other hand, other parts of Spain have some great bishops who are really resisting the government.
>>Not going to sit well with the violent muslim extremists running spain
I was thinking the same thing. I wonder what the libs will do when they succeed in letting the muslims take over. I can’t wait for the homosexuals and atheists to come crying to the Christians for shelter when they are being pursued by mob of stone-throwing muzzies that want to hang them from a lamppost with piano wire.
They don’t even know what persecution is...yet.
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