Pastor tells trans activist: Gay ‘rights’ are ‘false rights’
The transsexual known as Diana Sanchez, whose biological sex is
male and is a political figure in Mexico City’s leftist party PRD, wrote a
letter to Mexico’s Churches, on July 29 demanding he and other pastors “obey”
the Pope in “abstaining from discriminating and judging homosexuals.”
Referring to the recent marches that have taken place across the
country in favor of the right to life and the protection of natural marriage,
the activist demanded that all pastors be investigated and “punished” when they
“promote discrimination against citizens based on their sexual orientation” and
“allowed and encouraged homophobic attacks.”
He especially mentioned a particular pastor, whose city saw
80,000 marchers take to the streets on July 25.
The activist argued that the decriminalization of abortion,
which has been legal in Mexico City since 2007, and the recent legalization of
“marriage” between persons of the same sex have been a “good for the
population.”
The Pastors answer came on August 11 where he explained that
homosexual “marriage” “false rights,” adding: “It is not Pope Francis who asks
us to abstain from discriminating against homosexual persons, but the Catechism
of the Catholic Church.”
He explained Church teaching says homosexuals “must be accepted
with respect, compassion, and sensitivity,” and clarified the Church also
teaches “homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered” as “’they are contrary
to the natural law. They close the sexual act to the gift of life. They do not
proceed from a genuine affective and sexual complementarity. Under no
circumstances can they be approved’ and Pope Francis has not changed this
Church doctrine.”
The letters come after recent Supreme Court rulings that
legalized homosexual “marriage.”
The cardinal ended his letter saying he will pray that Sanchez
may find “the truth Jesus has revealed to us and you may live according to that
truth.”
