Indian bishops at odds over decriminalization of homosexual acts [CWN]

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A spokesman for the Church in Kerala-- the southwestern Indian state that has been the nation’s Catholic stronghold since its evangelization by St. Thomas the Apostle-- has condemned the federal’s government’s proposal to decriminalize homosexual acts. This stance is at odds with that of the Catholic Bishops Conference of India, which opposes same-sex marriage but is not opposed to the proposed decriminalization.

In December, Vatican spokesman Father Federico Lombardi said, “The well-known principles of respect for the fundamental rights of the person and the rejection of all unjust discrimination-- recognized clearly by the Catechism of the Catholic Church itself-- evidently exclude not only the death penalty, but all violent or discriminatory penal legislations in relation to homosexuals.”

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