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Homosexual unions : Argentine Catholic Medical Declaration
Statement to the bill legal recognition
BUENOS AIRES, Saturday, May 15, 2010 Here is the statement of the Consortium of Catholic Doctors of Argentina to the bill that seeks to in that country to give legal recognition comparable to that of marriage to same-sex couples.
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Catholic Medical Consortium aware of the claims to redefine the concept of marriage, expresses once again its commitment to promote and uphold respect for human life and family.
1. We recall that this matter relates to the natural moral law, and therefore expose our reasons not only to believers but to all people of goodwill.
2. The natural and basic concept of marriage and the complementarity of the sexes suggests a truth that is evident to right reason and recognized as such by all the great cultures of the world. No ideology can remove the human spirit the certainty that marriage exists solely between a man and a woman, that they mutually perfect each to cooperate with God in the procreation and education of new lives.
3. All civil law should reflect the natural moral law, otherwise it will be a "bad laws", to which there is a moral obligation to oppose.
4. Laws favorable to homosexual unions are contrary to natural moral law because they confer legal guarantees, analogous to marriage to unions between same sex. The State can not legalize these unions without failing in its duty to promote and protect an essential institution for the common good as marriage.
5. Respect for homosexual persons can not in any way to approval of homosexual behavior or to legal recognition of homosexual unions. Men and women with homosexual tendencies must be accepted with respect, compassion and sensitivity. Regard should be avoided at Every sign of unjust discrimination.
6. Therefore the Consortium of Catholic Physicians reaffirms that "the common good requires that laws recognize, promote and protect marriage as the foundation of the family, the primary unit of society. We must defend these values, for the sake of men and society as a whole. "
