A Roman Catholic bishop claims gay
marriage is responsible for “the destruction of the family” and
“the significant increase in children with severe disturbances of
personality.”
Bishop Casimiro Lopez Llorente of the
Roman Catholic Diocese of Segorbe-Castellon denounced marriage
equality, legal in Spain since 2005, in his final pastoral letter of
the year, titled The Good News of Marriage and the Family.
The effects of same-sex marriage, the
bishop wrote, are “weakening the lasting love between spouses,
maternal and paternal love, familial love, the significant increase
in children with severe disturbances of personality and the
development of a climate that often ends in violence.”
Lopez also doubted that the church must
adapt to changing times, saying that such progress is responsible for
the growing number of broken families and adds to the suffering of
children, Spanish news agency EFE
reported.