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Spanish prosecutor to investigate Cardinal-elect for calling homosexuality ‘defective’

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MADRID, Spain , February 7, 2014  A Spanish prosecutor has agreed to investigate Cardinal -elect Fernando Sebastian Aguilar after a national homosexualist group launched a legal action against him last month, accusing him of hate speech for calling homosexuality a “defective way of expressing sexuality.” Aguilar, recently named as a cardinal-elect by Pope Francis, told the Spanish newspaper   Diario Sur January 20 that sex “has a structure and a purpose, which is procreation.” Cardinal-elect Fernando Sebastián Aguilar with Pope Francis “A homosexual who can’t achieve procreation is failing,” he said. “Our bodies have many defects. I have high blood pressure, a defect I have to try and correct in whatever way I can.” Members of Colegas, the homosexual group behind the complaint, say that the Cardinal-elect’s words "clearly incit[e] hate and discrimination,” a crime that they say violates constitutional guarantees. “Spain is a modern country and a secular one, and th

Lesbian with kids in Catholic school demands removal of Catechism quote on homosexuality

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Image via Wikipedia Late Night Catechism (Photo credit: Mark Sardella ) BOWMANVILLE, Ontario , March 16, 2012 ( LifeSiteNews.com ) – A self-proclaimed ‘lesbian’ whose two children attend a Catholic school near Peterborough is demanding that the Peterborough Catholic school board remove a Catechism quote dealing with homosexuality from a school pamphlet. Ann Michelle Tesluk has started an online petition to pressure the board to action and describes her activities as gearing to make the Catholic Church into an “openly gay friendly church.” The  pamphlet in question , however, is controversial from more than one perspective.  While quoting the Catechism that the homosexual inclination is “objectively disordered”, the pamphlet also misrepresents Catholic teaching in numerous ways. The pamphlet calls on schools to highlight homosexual role models and familiarize students with terms like “ LGBTQQ ” and “two-spirited.” It indicates that Canada legalized same-sex “marriage” in 2005 without