Makes headlines across Latin America with ringing affirmation of sexual morality and the family
By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman
HAVANA, Cuba, June 24, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Catholic Diocese of Havana has issued a scathing denunciation of the Cuban government’s campaign to promote homosexuality, transsexualism, and “sexual diversity” that is making headlines across Latin America.
Responding to over a month of television campaigns and newspaper articles that proclaim, “the norm of sexuality is diversity”, and that deny the immorality of homosexual acts, the diocese says, “We are walking on the edge of the knife when the same government institutions promote programs that could undermine the foundations of society.”
“Homosexual conduct isn’t new,” writes the author of the editorial, Orlando Márquez. “But the international agenda that promotes homosexualism at every level is. Not even the Greeks and Romans, so dedicated to homosexual practices as ‘distinguished’ during their years of preeminence, dared to equate homosexual unions with heterosexual unions, because they were convinced that the latter were the guarantee and sustenance of society.”
The editorial appears in the current edition of Palabra Nueva, the official newspaper of the Archdiocese of Havana, which is led by Cardinal Jaime Ortega (see Spanish text at http://www.palabranueva.net/contens/0806/0001014.htm).
In response to the recent airing on Cuban state television of the movie “Brokeback Mountain”, which featured two “cowboys” engaging in sodomy, Márquez approvingly quotes a concerned viewer who stated, “In the face of such barbarity and lack of respect for TV viewers, among which, in this country, there must have been young men, adolescents, and others who had never seen or participated in a sexual act, I felt disgusted and turned off the television.”
“The reality,” writes Márquez, “is that the reaction of Hilda is not exclusive to Catholics, or other Christians who, based on their faith, reacted in a similar manner. Many Cubans were surprised by this television feature, in a relatively early time slot for children and young people who don’t get up early on Saturday to go to school.”
The editorial notes that, despite the American Psychiatric Association’s controversial decision in 1973 to declassify homosexuality as a mental disorder, many psychiatrists continue to recognize it as such. “In fact there are many psychiatrists, in Cuba as well, who continue to consider homosexuality as a disturbance that originates, in many cases, in a damaged affective relationship between fathers and sons in the first years of life.”
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