Marriage is More Than Living Under the Same Roof
Oct 12, 2004
A prominent Mexican cardinal denounced legalization of same-sex weddings in an interview published Tuesday, saying it would be like considering cats or cockroaches part of a family.
(AP, October 12, 2004) MEXICO CITY – Javier Lozano Barragan stated that defenders of homosexual marriage argue that people living together constitute a family, according to the newspaper Reforma.
"They even give cockroaches the rank of family now because they live under the same roof," Lozano was quoted as saying. "If there's a cat, a dog, two lesbians and everything living there, it's a family."
Lozano, the Vatican's health secretary, was commenting on a proposal by Spain's government to legalize same-sex marriages.
"One of the great goals of the culture of death is destruction of the family," Lozano said, "so on all sides, not merely in Spain ... there are these proposals that say that the family consists of all those who live beneath the same roof."
Lozano was participating in the 48th International Euchartistic Congress, which has drawn thousands of Catholics to the west-central Mexican city of Guadalajara.
Marriage is More Than Living Under the Same Roof