GAY GROUP SUES AFTER SERMON: From the Washington Post

A Spanish homosexual organization is suing the country's Roman Catholic primate for suggesting that same-sex marriages would bring down the country's social security system.

The Popular Gay Platform, an association of politically conservative homosexuals, filed the action a day after a sermon about the Holy Family by Cardinal Antonio Maria Rouco Varela at Madrid's Almudena Cathedral. The association's president, Carlos Biendicho, told El Mundo newspaper that the primate's words constitute "slander and an incitement to discrimination" on the basis of sexual orientation. ...

In his sermon, Rouco Varela said that if families based on marriage between a man and a woman are put on an equal footing with "all types of unions, including those by nature unable to have children, it will result in the systematic destruction of the social security system."

He suggested same-sex couples would overburden the state pension system by drawing retirement benefits without having had children whose incomes would keep the system going.

Rouco Varela's comments come as Spain and other European countries face collapse of their state pension systems mainly because of low
birthrates. The primate argued that it is "the fecund love of the Christian family" that is best for the survival of the welfare system, even though large families are rejected as a thing of the past by many young Spaniards.

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