The concept of equality is being misused in order to radically redefine the family, a leading Vatican official has 
said.
Bishop Jean Laffitte, Secretary of the Pontifical Council for the Family, spoke [1] to an audience at the Student Union Hall of St. Mary’s University College in Twickenham on “Marriage and the Family in a Culture of Relativism”.
He said that the past three years had seen “severe and rapid” changes in law in regards to the definition of the family.
Primary among these legal changes, he said, are the creation of legal recognition of unions of the same-sex, that he said are “abusively called marriage.” These have been the result of the growth of “relativism around sexual differentiation” that started only “a few years ago.”
Edmund Adamus director for Marriage and Family in Westminster, told LifeSiteNews.com that Bishop Laffitte’s talk “set the scene” to explore not only the “centrality of the family in the life of society” but also that “marriage and family is at the heart of the mission of the Church as the primary agent of evangelisation.”
The institution of “egalitarian marriage,” as it was called by these activists in the government in Argentina, is a “central point of a true revolutionary project that seeks to overturn the most fundamental structures of social life,” Bishop Laffitte said.
Emphasising that this is not merely his own personal interpretation, he quoted the French Justice Minister Christiane Taubira, who called the recently passed French same-sex bill “a true change of civilization.”
He tracked the process used by such activists to normalise “sexual relativism,” using homosexuality as a wedge issue by using “equality” propaganda.
He noted that the “diffusion of the ideology of gender and the denial of the original and essential character of sexual complementarity” has been achieved with great haste.
Starting in the 1990s, he said, “one could see the intent to trivialize the exercise of the sexual faculty between persons of the same sex.” This brought on the “spread of behaviors which expressed ethical relativism – about which [Pope] Benedict XVI had warned of in many instances. [These] began to exert their influences and take their toll in public morality and society at large.”
“No one could have ever imagined that what was accepted in a great majority of cultures regarding the definition of marriage would soon by the object of radical reconsideration,” he said. “Such convictions of bygone times no longer exist, and therefore in almost all cultures the Church is faced today with challenges that were inconceivable even half a century ago.”
He said he is convinced that the “accelerated nature” of the “innovation” of legal recognition of homosexual unions is a signal that “there is a deliberate intention to transverse culture and finally to impose a new morality and a new organization of life in society.”
He related the story of his visit to Buenos Aires, Argentina, the former diocese of the new Pope Francis, where he met with several legislators to discuss the push to create same-sex marriage. Some of them pointed out, he said, “that for the first time the government had made use of a legal argument that seemed impossible for them to contradict: the argument of ‘equality’”.
This doctrine of “equality,” he said is being used to “justify the initiative of a totally revolutionary law.”
“These parliament members,” he said, “perfectly understood that the principle of equality is almost infallible,” and provided a means to “marginalise the opposition.”
After his trip to Argentina, Bishop Laffitte travelled to France where he warned family associations that, “after a delay of several months” the “equality” language would be employed to force “gay marriage” into “several different countries, beginning with France.”