Realwomen of BC - Archives - April2003

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Vatican’s Lexicon causes stir A few months ago the Vatican’s Pontifical Council for the Family released a Lexicon of the Family publishing the deceptive language used to disguise pro-abortion and pro-homosexual tactics within the United Nations. According to pro-life activists working at the United Nations, developing countries have often great difficulties making sense of the language that is being used in the disguise of assisting women, children and families. The Lexicon points out that the term “voluntary interruption of pregnancy” is a euphemism for abortion and “reproductive health” simply means contraception. Additionally, the language used to discuss the family within the UN is often ambiguous and phrases are never properly defined as to what they actually mean. The Lexicon is now in the process of being translated into the English language and since the release of the Italian version, considerable controversy has sprung up. The homosexual community is in an uproar over the Lexicon as it describes “homosexuality as having no rights because it has no social value” and “homophobia as a term created by homosexual associations to stigmatise all those who question and do not accept the banalisation and the ‘normalisation’ of homosexuality.”
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