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ROME, APRIL 6, 2004 (Zenit.org).- A "manifestly ideological" intention to put an end to the very meaning of matrimony is behind the move by homosexual couples to have their unions declared "marriages," says a bioethics expert.
Claudia Navarini, professor of the School of Bioethics of the Regina Apostolorum Pontifical Athenaeum, said the recent World Congress of Families, in Mexico, warned about the risk that civil society runs, by tolerating or favoring homosexual unions.
Such unions, she said, are "contrary to nature and human dignity and to the institutions of society, such as the family and marriage."
Navarini cited the recent vote by lawmakers in Massachusetts for an amendment to the state Constitution to recognize homosexual unions as civil unions, while defining marriage as the union of a man and a woman.