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More than 100,000 rally to protect marriage in Puerto Rico

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SAN JUAN, PR , February 18, 2013, ( LifeSiteNews.com ) – Between 120,000 and 200,000 people blanketed the Capitol Building in San Juan, Puerto Rico , today to encourage the island's lawmakers to defend marriage as a union between one man and one woman. Bearing signs stating “Puerto Rico stands up to defend the family,” tens of thousands of protesters called on the ruling Popular Democratic Party to turn back any measure that would redefine the family unit. The crowd represented a significant turnout on island of three-and-a-half million. “Traffic was snarled for miles leading toward the San Jun islet as buses packed with marchers headed toward the north side of the Capitol,” according to the Puerto Rican-based  Caribbean Business . Organized in just three weeks, the cresting crowds represented people of different religious backgrounds, as well as denominations ranging from Pentecostal, Baptist, Catholic, and Disciples of Christ . Supporters of same-sex “marriage” h

Ricky Martin asked not to promote homosexuality

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Image via Wikipedia A Catholic cardinal archbishop is calling on Ricky Martin to stop promoting the homosexual lifestyle as the singer performs his “Music Soul Sex” (Musica Alma Sexo or “MAS”) tour in various cities in the USA and Latin America . During an interview with the Spanish publication Primera Hora , Cardinal Luis Aponte Martinez , the Archbishop of San Juan , Puerto Rico , asked Martin to promote values that are shared by all, and noted that “fomenting homosexuality or sexual promiscuity among our young people is certainly immoral, regardless of where it comes from.” Martin, who took on a homosexual identity recently after years of identifying as a heterosexual, has announced that his new musical tour will include “sex games,” which he said “is part of my new way of life.” “I personally admire Ricky for the great artistic gifts which the Lord has given him, but I ask that, for the love of his children, for whom I imagine he wishes the best, to try to give an example to