Amidst the maddest succession of anti-family legislation proposed by any single government in Europe (probably ever), Zapatero's Socialists' latest proposal, likely to be introduced before the next general elections, would establish a "Gender Identity Act" (Ley de Identidad de Género).
As it often happens in such circumstances, the media picked the friendly cleric, Cardinal Amigo of Seville, to hear his opinion. From El País (Caution: some may find the Cardinal's words offensive):
As it often happens in such circumstances, the media picked the friendly cleric, Cardinal Amigo of Seville, to hear his opinion. From El País (Caution: some may find the Cardinal's words offensive):
The future approval of a Gender Identity Act to regulate the change of the sex and of the name of transsexuals is a "legal matter" which is not at all "frivolous", the Cardinal-Archbishop of Seville, Carlos Amigo, affirmed yesterday. A person's sex, "simply determined by an external inspection of the genital organs" may not be one's identity, he added. Amigo directed the regulation of such matters to "the experts".
A person's sex is "simply determined by an external inspection of the genital organs", and such identification may not be the most accurate, opined the Archbishop. In this, he concurs with the essence of the complaints of transsexual persons, who feel [they belong to] a sex which is not the one their genitalia portray. "Sex determination is made simply by an external inspection of the genital organs and one sex or the other is determined, but there may be a person whose only feature as a woman or as a man is this external appearance and that is not the identity of that person", he remarked.
Amigo was questioned after, in the past week, several groups of transsexuals began a campaign so that the Government fulfills its electoral pledge to regulate the change of name and sex in the Civil Registry with no need of complete surgery for the re-determination of sex.
The reporter transcribed the same sentence by the Cardinal three times, which may mean the Cardinal actually spoke it thrice or that the reporter was just surprised...
The Pope will visit Spain (Valencia) next July to take part in the World Meeting of Families (are the friendly Cardinal's words a coincidence?).
The Pope will visit Spain (Valencia) next July to take part in the World Meeting of Families (are the friendly Cardinal's words a coincidence?).
Tip: Radio Cristiandad (sidebar)
