Vatican: sex change operations, surrogacy and gender theory are “grave threats to human dignity”
from Religion Media Centre:
The Vatican has published a report “Dignitas Infinita: on Human Dignity,” saying sex change operations, surrogate motherhood, abortion and poverty, are grave threats to human dignity.
The declaration, which took five years to write and has been approved by the Pope, reiterates the church’s opposition to gender reassignment surgery because “sex-change intervention…risks threatening the unique dignity the person has received from the moment of conception.”
The Catholic News Agency reports that the declaration addresses growing concerns such as gender theory, sex changes, surrogacy and euthanasia in addition to abortion, poverty, human trafficking and war. “In the face of so many violations of human dignity that seriously threaten the future of the human family, the Church encourages the promotion of the dignity of every human person, regardless of their physical, mental, cultural, social, and religious characteristics,” reads the document, which was issued by the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith.
It says gay people should be respected, and denounces places where people “are imprisoned, tortured, and even deprived of the good of life solely because of their sexual orientation”.
In The Tablet, the chair of the Irish Bishops’ Council for Life, Bishop Kevin Doran, warmly welcomed Dignitas Infinita. However, the magazine also quotes Marianne Duddy-Burke from DignityUSA which campaigns for LGBT+ people, saying: “It is shocking to see gender affirmation treatments classified as the same kind of threats to human dignity as war, impoverishment, human trafficking and sexual abuse.”
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