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Father Raymond Gravel, pastor of St. Joachim-de-la-Plaine at La Plaine, Quebec, has been elected the Member of Parliament for the Montreal area of Repentigny in a an election. He won the by-election on November 27, 2006, representing the Bloc Québecois, the far Left party. Gravel had the support of the Vatican and his local Bishop, Gilles Lussier, of Joliette.
Gravel has made it public that he wants norestriction on abortion in Canada. At present, abortion is legal in Canada . Gravel does not want the law to be limited in any way. Gravel alsois in favor of the new change to Canada’s marriage law, making it possible for men to claim that they are marrying other men (and women other women). In an August 2003 letter to Montreal’s La Presse, Gravel said that the Vatican’s position against same-sex marriage was “discriminatory, hurtful and offensive for everyone who works to promote human rights and to re-establish justice and equality.” Gravel is an admitted and apparently active homosexual who claims to have worked for some time as a male prostitute before becoming a Priest.
Gravel’s Bishop informed the press that after consulting with his presbyteral council, he gave Gravel permission to run in the election. Under canon law, such permission could have been given only with the approval of the Vatican, Letters of protest from conservatives apparently poured in to the office of Canada’s Papal Nuncio, Archbishop Luigi Ventura to no avail whatsoever.
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Gravel has made it public that he wants norestriction on abortion in Canada. At present, abortion is legal in Canada . Gravel does not want the law to be limited in any way. Gravel alsois in favor of the new change to Canada’s marriage law, making it possible for men to claim that they are marrying other men (and women other women). In an August 2003 letter to Montreal’s La Presse, Gravel said that the Vatican’s position against same-sex marriage was “discriminatory, hurtful and offensive for everyone who works to promote human rights and to re-establish justice and equality.” Gravel is an admitted and apparently active homosexual who claims to have worked for some time as a male prostitute before becoming a Priest.
Gravel’s Bishop informed the press that after consulting with his presbyteral council, he gave Gravel permission to run in the election. Under canon law, such permission could have been given only with the approval of the Vatican, Letters of protest from conservatives apparently poured in to the office of Canada’s Papal Nuncio, Archbishop Luigi Ventura to no avail whatsoever.
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