Vatican prelate blasts UN demand to abolish all laws against homosexual activity
ROME , March 1, 2012 ( LifeSiteNews.com ) – The demand by the United Nations Secretary General that African countries abolish all legal prohibitions against homosexual activity has met with anger from one African Vatican prelate who said that it was “not our culture; it’s against our faith” to endorse homosexuality. At a Vatican meeting on Africa earlier this month, Cardinal Robert Sarah , the President of the Pontifical Council Cor Unum for Human and Christian Development, told the National Catholic Register , ( NCR ) “African bishops must react” to the demand. Cardinal Robert Sarah He described the secretary general’s comments as “stupid” and added that the “Catholic bishops of America must help us in Africa, by reacting themselves.” “It’s not possible to impose on the poor this kind of European mentality,” he added. UN General Secretary Ban Ki-Moon had told an assembly in Addis Ababa that what he called discrimination against homosexuals “has been ignored or even sanctioned