Comment comes after Supreme Court upholds laws allowing gay marriage, adoption by gay couples
From staff and wire ReportS editor@dallasvoice.com
- Cardinal Juan Sandoval Iniguez
MEXICO CITY — Mexico City’s leftist mayor has filed suit against a Roman Catholic cardinal who suggested he bribed the Supreme Court to uphold a city law allowing adoptions by same-sex couples, according to reports by the Spanish news agency EFE.
Mayor Marcelo Ebrard is charging Cardinal Juan Sandoval Iniguez with slander after Iniquez said in a sermon on Sunday, Aug. 15, that same-sex marriages are an “abberration,” and asked his congregation, “Would you want to be adopted by a pair of faggots or lesbians?”
He then accused Ebrard of having bribed the Mexico Supreme Court justices to get them to uphold laws allowing same-sex couples to marry and to adopt, as well as ordering that same-sex marriages performed legally in Mexico City must be legally recognized throughout the country.
Iguinez said Monday, Aug. 16, that his archdiocese in Guadalajara has proof of his claims of bribery.
The court has denied and condemned the accusation. But the church is backing Iguinez.
In a statement, the Mexican Council of Bishops expressed its “solidarity and regards” for Sandoval Iniguez.
The council also stressed its continuing opposition to the adoption law and said “we regret that when these opinions are expressed, there are those who rebuke them and threaten to sound the alarm about intolerance.”
“We spoke out, as part of the freedom of expression guaranteed by our democratic system, in opposition to the Supreme Court ruling,without implying any disrespect for the institutions of the Mexican government.”
This article appeared in the Dallas Voice print edition August 20, 2010.
How Christ-like to say, “Would you want to be adopted by a pair of faggots or lesbians?” Those are the words spoken by a Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church in a sermon to his congregation.
Somehow I think Jesus would be offended as am I. My research into the teachings of Jesus reveal no words against homosexuality.
Cardinal Juan Sandoval Iniguez can stick his opposition to marriage equality where the sun doesn’t shine. He should worry more about the immorality of his church than what others do in the privacy of their homes. He is shameful.