Guatemalan presidential candidates united in opposition to gay agenda
Image via Wikipedia Nine out of eleven of Guatemala ’s presidential candidates recently attended a forum held by the country’s Catholic bishops , where the candidates unanimously rejected the decriminalization of abortion, homosexual adoption , and other socially liberal policies, according to the Prensa Libre newspaper. The responses indicate a very different mentality from the sexually libertine morality prevailing in industrialized countries, where free sexual liaisons are increasingly regarded as “normal” and abortion is almost universally offered as a backup in the case contraception fails. The candidates present included members of a variety of parties on both sides of the political spectrum, including Otto Pérez Molina of the Patriotic Party , Manuel Baldizón of the Renewed Democratic Liberty Party, Patricia de Arzú of the Unionist Party, and Rigoberta Menchú of the Broad Front of the Left. All nine candidates said that abortion should be entirely prohibited under the la