EUROPE/SPAIN - “They seem to want to impose the principle that any personal life style may be made a public institution” Benigno Blanco told Fides after Canada approves same sex “marriage”

Madrid (Fides Service) - “What is happening in many parts of the world is a syndrome of our day as absolute relativism establishes its reign in more and more consciences in the West and people no longer know the truth of things or even of their own human nature”, said Benigno Blanco, Vice president of the Spanish Family Forum in a conversation with Fides with regard to a law approved in Canada to legalise “marriage” between people of the same sex. “They seen to want to impose the principle that any personal life style made be made into a public institution and that life is a great supermarket of customs where you choose the fashion you find most pleasing”.
“Nevertheless despite all these different fashions of the day divorce, abortion, manipulation of human embryos, euthanasia and now same sex “marriage” - said Benigno Blanco - the reality of family remains an immense presence. People still want traditional marriage, they still want to be faithful to this institution, they still want to raise children in a normal family. This is what the great majority of the men and women want from life, not these experiements launched by the political world. I think that at the moment we must insist on the fact that reality is healthier than the law and we must make this reality visible much more visible that the pathologies for which laws are being passed today ". For the vice president of the Spanish Family Forum "this is the way to put an end to these foolish and dangerous experiments on the family". In conclusion Blanco said: “All during the 20th century with many different ideologies it was announced that the family was dead but the family is alive and well. It is now once again under attack but the family will survive always." (RG) (Agenzia Fides 21/7/2005, righe 21, parole 313)