Colombian Christians issue joint condemnation of homosexual ‘marriage’ as court decision approaches
Image via Wikipedia The leaders of Colombia ’s major Christian denominations have issued a joint statement asking the nation’s Constitutional Court to protect the institution of marriage and reject a petition to create homosexual marriage as a constitutional “right.” The Court is due to issue its decision on the matter today, following a suit filed by a homosexual couple in January of this year. The statement, which was signed by representatives of the Catholic Church , Evangelical Protestant churches, Methodists , and Anglicans , states that “the bond between two men or two women cannot constitute a true marriage or a true family, and much less can the right to adopt minors be attributed to it.” “Anthropologically and psychologically the integral complementarity of the couple is of a man and a woman, with the purpose of a union in love, of the fruit of love in children and the creation of a family, ” the prelates add. “We respectfully invite the magistrates of the Constitution...