Traditional Family = Good for you!

Church leaders reaffirm traditional family at meeting in Mexico

By David Agren
Catholic News Service

MEXICO CITY (CNS) -- Participants at the Sixth World Meeting of Families made impassioned defenses of the traditional family while rejecting allegations from protesters and local leftist politicians that the Catholic Church has been preaching exclusion.

Speakers on the first day of the Jan. 14-18 meeting, which organizers say is being attended by more than 8,000 participants from more than 90 countries, emphasized the traditional definition of family -- father, mother and children -- while discarding suggestions that the institution be expanded to include homosexual couples. The meeting was organized by the Vatican's Pontifical Council for the Family.

"The church -- we teach respect for marriage between a man and a woman because that is the foundation of the family," Cardinal Norberto Rivera Carrera of Mexico City said during his opening remarks Jan. 14.

His comments at the five-day meeting were echoed by other speakers, including Cardinal Marc Ouellet of Quebec City, who said during a discussion on values, "Marriage and the family have turned into a battlefield, where secularization is attempting to injure the family." (read more)

Let's try fifty years without a traditional family and see how the babies get made.

Retards.