EUROPE/SPAIN - President of Catholic University of Murcia issues a statement of total rejection of proposed amendments to the Spanish Civil Code which he considers “an unprecedented attack on history and an act of total disregard for marriage”

Murcia (Fides Service) - D. José Luis Mendoza, President Catholic University of Murcia and a consultor of the Pontifical Council for the Family issued a statement rejecting the proposed amendment to Spain’s Civil Code in order to allow same-sex ‘marriage’ and adoption of children which he called “an unprecedented attack on history and an act of total disregard for marriage foundation of the family and guarantee for social stability” .
“Instead of defending moral and social order in our society, the socialist government in this way becomes the enemy and destroyer of the social model of the family established centuries ago society”, he said adding that the government is leading Spanish society in a “process of de-humanisation and moral degrade which threatens to cause serious social problems. By attacking the present model of the family it is promoting moral and social deterioration in Spain”.
“Mr Zapatero wants to change the model of family?” D. José Luis Mendoza asks. “I trust God will not allow him to commit such an act of barbarity” recalling that God created man and woman, not man and man or woman and woman "unions which cannot give birth to life.”
He concluded by saying “Spain has given up its freedom and is subject to a government which intends to impose religion without God with aggressive secularism unprecedented in the history of Spain." (RG) (Agenzia Fides 3/5/2005, righe 19, parole 261)