AMERICA/ARGENTINA - “The destruction of the family is a strategy which promotes the manipulation of society with consequences not only social, psychic and spiritual, but also economic and political ": Christian Family Movement statement on life and the family

Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - The Christian Family Movement of Argentina has issued a statement on life and the family entitled "Family, strive to proclaim with courage the Gospel of Love". The purpose of the statement is to "invite all the people of Argentina, governors and governed, to reflect on the present situation of these aspects in national and international life".
"To destroy the family means destroying society” the statement reads. And "this strategy promotes the manipulation of society with consequences not only social, psychic and spiritual, but also economic and political". The statement mentions some of the attacks on the family: content deformed with the following claims: a union of any two persons is a ‘family’; a child can grow up normally in a ‘home’ where the affective-sexual model is homosexuality, male or female; a woman has the right to dispose of her body and the life of her unborn child; poor people must be sterilised; obstacles are placed in the way of people who could offer many defenceless children a well built family; attitudes, values and ideas foreign to their age are infiltrated in the education of children which undermine the guidance parents have the right to give their children; drug abuse is encouraged; the idea is spread that suicide is ‘dying with dignity' instead of supporting the life of every human person, worthy in itself, regardless of the psychic-physical state.
Society sees the attitudes as ‘advanced and democratic', but the statement says they are not democratic "because they do not represent the sentiment and will of the majority", they are not advanced because "as history shows they lead to the degradation of a country with a sort of suicide".
The statement lists a series of important principles for life and the family in response to "certain proposed Bills and laws already approved which attack the family and life": same sex unions are not marriage or a family; no woman has the right to kill her unborn child; no authority, civil, medical, judicial, has the right to sterilise a person; no political-educational plan has the right to undermine parental guidance.
The statement recalls that many countries have recognised the danger of these policies and have taken a step back as in the United States and Australia, or refused to approve this type of legislation.
“Today there is a tendency to marginalise the majority for the benefit of some minorities: the majority is subject to insults and calumny, regarded as antiquated or reactionary, whereas they are simply defending human society and human life. (RG) (Agenzia Fides 14/7/2006; righe 37, parole 492)