Catholic Church in Costa Rica Requests That Presidential Candidates Reject Gay Marriage. Free video

From the pulpit installed outside the National Stadium in the north of the La Sabana park, Archbishop Angel Sancasimiro yesterday demanded presidential candidates reject efforts to legalize marriage between same sex.

“We feel an obligation to show our current and future legislators, to our current and future government, what we think, long for and want in crucial issues such as family, life and all its culture,” said the Bishop of Alajuela .

The prelate made the call during the closing Mass of the Walk for Life and the Family in San Jose, organized by the Episcopal Conference of Costa Rica.

With both local Catholic Church activity ended the Year of Faith, promulgated in 2012 by Pope Benedict XVI.

“This march was not prepared as a show of force to counter others made by brothers who do not share our convictions and beliefs on the subject of family and life,” said Sancasimiro during the homily.

The activity brought hundreds of thousands of Catholics and Christians and other denominations, who came from all over the country, first, the Central Park of San Jose and then walked to the Parque Metropolitano La Sabana. There, before the Mass, there was a Catholic music concert.

In order to encourage attendance at the activities, in some parishes were suspended morning Masses.

The priest Sergio Valverde estimated that attended the walk at least 500,000 souls, while in the Eucharist were present around 150,000 faithful of the eight dioceses in the country.

The parishioners came early with banners, shirts, singing and shouting.

The only presidential candidate who attended the walk was Oscar Lopez, Accessibility Without Exclusion Party (PASE).

Lopez supported an initiative to collect signatures to propose a bill that would include heterosexual marriages in the Constitution.

The project is promoted by the Civic Movement to Rescue Marriage.

Luis Guillermo Solis, candidate of the Citizen Action Party (PAC), was on tour in Greece: “In the PAC support the bill coexistence companies (pro gay unions). It’s just that they can inherit, make sure and visit, “said Solis.

The liberationist Johnny Araya disagree with marriage between persons of the same sex, but said he supports protecting the rights of these couples.

In contrast, José María Villalta, the Frente Amplio (FA), supported gay unions: “The regulation of these rights must meet the needs of this population pressures and political or religious groups.”

Villata position alluded to the bill is stuck in Congress to give rights to gay unions.

On tour in Carthage, Libertarian Otto Guevara said, at the end of the afternoon, he will not wear through these reforms.

“There is so much unemployment, not enough money, the quality of public health walks across the floor, and we have so much insecurity problem,” replied

While they went on tour candidates seeking votes from 9 a.m. Sunday a harsh sun accompanied the walkers more than five hours between your route to La Sabana and Mass concelebrated by all the bishops of the Episcopal Conference.

Adrián Granados and Mariana Faba were with their children: “We support the family as God instituted it,” said Faba.

Former President Miguel Angel Rodriguez (1998-2002) participated in the Mass: “The freedom of individuals to act in different ways and different should be respected, but it should also be respected through the centuries of human evolution has been established.

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