Gay 'rights' are 'false rights,' Mexican cardinal asserts to transsexual advocate

Mexico's Primate, Cardinal Norberto Rivera stands firm against abortion and gay 'rights'

Diana Sanchez, a well-known transsexual and political figure in Mexico City's leftist party PRD, wrote a letter to Mexico's Primate, Cardinal Norberto Rivera insisting he and other cardinals "obey" the Pope in "abstaining from discriminating and judging homosexuals."

MUNTINLUPA, PHILIPPINES (Catholic Online) - Sanchez demanded the Primate investigate and "punish" the Mexican prelates who promoted them. According to Sanchez, they "promote discrimination against citizens based on their sexual orientation" and "allowed and encouraged homophobic attacks."

The politician specifically mentioned Guadalajara's Cardinal Francisco Robles and asserted that the decriminalization of abortion and the recent legalization of "marriage" between persons of the same sex have been a "good for the population."

The Primate released his reponse explaining, "murdering a child inside its mother's womb can never be a good for the woman who experiments this drama, let alone for the child who is deprived of the first of all of rights which is that of life."

Rivera continued on to call abortion and homosexual "marriage" "false rights."

"It is not Pope Francis who asks us to abstain from discriminating against homosexual persons, but the Catechism of the Catholic Church," he said.

In his explanation, Rivera clarified the Church teaching says homosexuals "must be accepted with respect, compassion, and sensitivity," and clarified the Church also teaches "homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered" as "'they are contrary to the natural law. They close the sexual act to the gift of life. They do not proceed from a genuine affective and sexual complementarity. Under no circumstances can they be approved' and Pope Francis has not changed this Church doctrine."

To end his letter, the cardinal stated that he will pray that Sanchez may find "the truth Jesus has revealed to us and you may live according to that truth."