Nobel laureate: ‘Troglodyte’ Pervuian bishops rejection of gay unions like ‘Nazi racism’
LIMA, Peru , April 25, 2014 – In a press release published two days ago, the Peruvian Bishops denounced “insulting” and “disrespectful” statements made by Nobel-prize-winning author Mario Vargas Llosa against the Catholic Church as he voiced his support for same-sex civil unions , an initiative being considered by the Peruvian National Congress. Mario Vargas Llosa Vargas Llosa was responding to a recent statement by the Peruvian Episcopal Conference in which the bishops called Peruvians to stand up for the “inalienable values of family,” and called civil unions an “attack against the human dignity of Peruvians.” Family, they said, “is not a human creation but an institution in natural law that is inscribed in human nature.” The bishops noted that “the proposition of civil unions between persons of the same sex is contrary to natural order, [because] it distorts the true identity of family.” “Its defendants invoke the right to equality but forget the reality of the...