Vatican official condemns UN report urging laws protecting homosexuals from ‘discrimination’
H.E. Archbishop Silvano Tomasi (Photo credit: UK in Holy See ) March 15, 2012 ( LifeSiteNews.com ) - The Vatican’s principal representative before the United Nations , Archbishop Silvano Tomasi, is objecting to demands to outlaw “discrimination” against homosexuals in a report commissioned by the United Nations Human Rights Council , on “ Discriminatory Laws and Practices and Acts of Violence against Individuals based on their Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity ”. In response to the claim advanced by the UN High Commissioner of Human Rights that governments are obligated to “ensure that unmarried same-sex couples are treated in the same way and entitled to the same benefits as unmarried opposite-sex couples,” Tomasi responds that the language threatens the institution of marriage. Tomasi is concerned that the document’s language gives special treatment to homosexuals and threatens the institution of marriage. It also threatens to give rights to people based on their “gender id...