‘Gender Identity’ Theory Seen as Threat to African Families

[Humanist_Activist]

[div class="excerpt" style="margin-left:1em; border:1px solid #bfbfbf; border-radius:0.4615em; box-shadow:3px 3px 3px #999999;"]VATICAN CITY — Representatives from the Pontifical Council for the Family gathered in the Republic of the Congo with more than 40 bishops last week to discuss the state of families in Africa, highlighting both strengths and challenges they face.

“The bishops are very glad and positive about the family because it is really the structure of African society,” Father Andrea Ciucci told CNA July 11; however, “there are some problems not typically African but that Africa is learning from Europe and America.”

A priest of the Pontifical Council for the Family, Father Ciucci traveled last week to Brazzaville, the capitol of the Republic of the Congo, along with the council’s president, Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, to meet with the Association of Episcopal Conferences of Central Africa (ACERAC).

Bishops from each of the six nations composing the ACERAC — Congo Brazzaville, Cameroon, Chad, Gabon, Central African Republic and Equatorial Guinea — met alongside various other international bishops to discuss the theme of the family in Central Africa.

“The bishops are very glad and positive about the family because it is really the structure of African society,” Father Ciucci observed, “but on the other side there are some problems.”


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Curious as to what they hope to change here, hope it doesn't create another Uganda situation like what evangelicals brought about.

[DreamGypsy]

1. Same old nonsense..

OK, Africa, like every mix of peoples, has unique cultural aspects:

There is “the traditional marriage, the legal marriage and the religious marriage,” the priest said, describing how central African bishops are trying to unite “these three ways of marriage.”

That seems to be a reasonable topic for discussion.

However, on the gender identity question it's the typical religious response of denying the experience of many, many people, especially the young (emphasis mine):

In addition to these challenges, Father Ciucci explained that “gender identity” is an increasing problem for the family in Africa and is something that is not a natural phenomenon, but, rather, is being learned through technology and the Internet.

Father Ciucci said, “This way of understanding life is not an African problem, but all young African people are connected to the Internet, so the younger ones are listening to this” and seeing this “way of humanity, sexuality and the relationship between a man a woman.”

"Although the “gender identity” theory propagated through the Internet is “just a hypothesis,” the priest explained that questions regarding “gender” are very common in African youth, and Church leaders there are “trying to understand this problem and how this culture of gender is penetrating in Africa and in the different generations of Africans.”

[muriel_volestrangler]

2. 'Family' is the last rhetorical refuge of the social scoundrel

See: American 'Family' Association, Focus on the 'Family', 'pro-family' etc.

[libodem]

3. Family Values

Inherently subjugates the woman and children as chattel.

Somebody to rule over when animal husbandry is insufficiently fulfilling.