Catholic bishops blast gay marriage in Spain.Roman Catholic officials in Spain are sounding increasingly shrill shrill adj. shrill·er, shrill·est 1. High-pitched and piercing in tone or sound: the shrill wail of a siren. 2. in their attacks on the government's plans to legalize le·gal·ize tr.v. le·gal·ized, le·gal·iz·ing, le·gal·iz·es To make legal or lawful; authorize or sanction by law. le gay marriage and advance efforts to separate church and state. Fernando Sebastian, archbishop of Pamplona in northern Spain, railed against gays when he declared in early January that "(There is) a veritable epidemic of homosexuality, a fount of psychological problems and painful frustrations," according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse (AFP) French cooperative news agency. Based in Paris, it has roots in the Bureau Havas, created in 1832, which in 1835 became the Agence Havas, the world's first true news agency. . The Catholic hierarchy in Spain has steadily ramped up its rhetoric aimed at domestic policy initiatives being advanced by Spain's Prime Minister Jose Luis Zapatero. Zapatero unseated the right-wing Popular Party Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar shortly alter the Madrid terrorist train attacks in March 2004. Zapatero and his Socialist Party Socialist party, in U.S. history, political party formed to promote public control of the means of production and distribution. In 1898 the Social Democratic party was formed by a group led by Eugene V. Debs and Victor Berger. , which holds a majority in the country's parliament, has pushed a social agenda that polls say is widely popular. Besides preparing to officially recognize same-sex unions, Zapatero's administration has signaled it will revoke a law enforced by Aznar making it mandatory for public school students to study Catholicism. |
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