Also Wishes to Inject Homosexual "Marriage" into Charter Document

Ecuador's President and ruling party seeks to exclude mention of God in new constitution...

"Once a country has given itself over to all manner of paganism and sin, it is not long before that country falls into a system of dictatorship, bringing great sorrow, even murder to the masses." - Jesus, May 26, 1979

LifeSiteNews.com reported on March 31, 2008:

Ecuador's president and ruling party have announced that they are opposed to mentioning God in the nation's new constitution, and have called into question the "inviolability of life" as it is phrased in the existing constitution.

The current constitution explicitly "invokes the protection of God" but according to the socialist PAIS Alliance, which currently dominates national politics in the country, it will not be included in the new constitution, which is being created in a special "constituent assembly".

A national group of evangelical protestant churches has begun a massive petition drive to request that the Constituent Assembly maintain the reference to God and the right to life guarantee in the constitution. So far it has collected 100,000 signatures and says that it plans to collect a total of two million (see LifeSiteNews coverage at http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/mar/08032704.html).

Although President Rafael Correa has stated that he wants the constitution to "guarantee the right to life from gestation, from fertilization", he has expressly stated his desire to remove the name of God from the new document.

"As a citizen of a secular government, I sincerely believe that the name of God should not be in the Constitution because it is necessary to also respect those who don't believe in God. 'Secular Government' does not mean the rejection of religion. It means that it accepts all religions, but it also accepts atheists," said Correa to a crowd of demonstrators recently.

The Constituent Assembly's vice president, Fernando Cordero, also a member of the PAIS Alliance, echoes Correa's view. He also agrees with Correa's oft-repeated endorsement of homosexual unions.

Cordero claims that there are no plans for including homosexual marriage explicitly in the constitution, but makes it clear that he wants the document to implicitly allow it. "What we want to do is to make known to the whole country that, whether we like it or not, in Ecuador and in the whole world there are people of the same sex who live together, and who end up creating a society," he says, and adds that "rights are for everyone, independently of their sexual preference."

Representative Betty Amores, also a PAIS member, has stated that she supports maintaining the "inviolability of life" in the new constitution, but hints that the phrase would leave the door open to abortion, for "public health" reasons, a slogan often used by pro-abortion forces.

"Personally I'm in agreement with maintaining the current constitutional dispositions regarding the right to life. The topic of abortion is one of public health, and will be debated in that context," she told the Ecuadoran publication El Comercio.

The socialist president of the Constituent Assembly and close ally of Correa, Alberto Acosta, tried to dismiss the actions of groups that are fighting to include the recognition of God, the right to life, and the protection of marriage in the new constitution.

"There are certain groups, who are echoed by certain members of the media, who want to make the country see that these are transcendental topics," said Acosta. "They are important, but not fundamental."

Although the PAIS Alliance has a majority of seats in the Constituent Assembly, divisions have arisen in recent days regarding life and family issues. The pro-life faction seems to be led by Rosanna Queirolo, a famous model and TV news announcer who has embarked on a political career as a representative in the Assembly. She is reportedly joined by several others within PAIS, including Rolando Panchana, Valerio Estacio, Iván Rodríguez, Édison Narváez, and Diana Acosta.

Queirolo recently participated in the delivery of 100,000 signatures demanding that the new constitution prohibit abortion, and participated in a recent pro-life march with fellow representative Diana Acosta. In response, Amores has demanded that they resign from the Constituent Assembly.

However, Queirolo is defiant. Not only will she not resign, she says, but she intends to "fight" for the right to life. According to El Comercio, she claims to have 50 signatures of support from other representatives in the 130 member Constituent Assembly, and says "if we lose, we will go out to win in the streets."

Previous LifeSiteNews Coverage:

Ecuador Churches Submit 100,000 Signatures to Prevent Constitutional Recognition of Abortion
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/mar/08032704.html

Ecuadoran President Denies Plan to Legalize Abortion
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2007/sep/07090608.html

Ecuadorans Battle Over Abortion in their New Constitution
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2007/aug/07082912.html

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Prophetic warnings of Pope John Paul II:

The Tyrant State...

The following excerpt is from Pope John Paul II's encyclical, The Gospel of Life:

There is an even more profound aspect which needs to be emphasized: freedom negates and destroys itself, and becomes a factor leading to the destruction of others, when it no longer recognizes and respects its essential link with the truth. When freedom, out of a desire to emancipate itself from all forms of tradition and authority, shuts out even the most obvious evidence of an objective and universal truth, which is the foundation of personal and social life, then the person ends up by no longer taking as the sole and indisputable point of reference for his own choices the truth about good and evil, but only his subjective and changeable opinion or, indeed, his selfish interest and whim.

This view of freedom leads to a serious distortion of life in society. If the promotion of the self is understood in terms of absolute autonomy, people inevitably reach the point of rejecting one another. Everyone else is considered an enemy from whom one has to defend oneself. Thus society becomes a mass of individuals placed side by side, but without any mutual bonds. Each one wishes to assert himself independently of the other and in fact intends to make his own interests prevail. Still, in the face of other people's analogous interests, some kind of compromise must be found, if one wants a society in which the maximum possible freedom is guaranteed to each individual. In this way, any reference to common values and to a truth absolutely binding on everyone is lost, and social life ventures on to the shifting sands of complete relativism. At that point, everything is negotiable, everything is open to bargaining: even the first of the fundamental rights, the right to life.

This is what is happening also at the level of politics and government: the original and inalienable right to life is questioned or denied on the basis of a parliamentary vote or the will of one part of the people—even if it is the majority. This is the sinister result of a relativism which reigns unopposed: the "right" ceases to be such, because it is no longer firmly founded on the inviolable dignity of the person, but is made subject to the will of the stronger part. In this way democracy, contradicting its own principles, effectively moves towards a form of totalitarianism. The State is no longer the "common home" where all can live together on the basis of principles of fundamental equality, but is transformed into a tyrant State, which arrogates to itself the right to dispose of the life of the weakest and most defenseless members, from the unborn child to the elderly, in the name of a public interest which is really nothing but the interest of one part. The appearance of the strictest respect for legality is maintained, at least when the laws permitting abortion and euthanasia are the result of a ballot in accordance with what are generally seen as the rules of democracy. Really, what we have here is only the tragic caricature of legality; the democratic ideal, which is only truly such when it acknowledges and safeguards the dignity of every human person, is betrayed in its very foundations: "How is it still possible to speak of the dignity of every human person when the killing of the weakest and most innocent is permitted? In the name of what justice is the most unjust of discriminations practiced: some individuals are held to be deserving of defense and others are denied that dignity?" When this happens, the process leading to the breakdown of a genuinely human co-existence and the disintegration of the State itself has already begun.

To claim the right to abortion, infanticide and euthanasia, and to recognize that right in law, means to attribute to human freedom a perverse and evil significance: that of an absolute power over others and against others. This is the death of true freedom: "Truly, truly, I say to you, every one who commits sin is a slave to sin" (Jn 8:34).

- Pope John Paul II, The Gospel of Life (Evangelium Vitae), #19-20, March 25, 1995.

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"Learn a simple lesson from the past, My children. When the morals of a country start to go down into darkness, and the teachings turn from God to man, that country will soon be ended. First the spiritual life and then the material life of your country shall be destroyed." - Jesus, October 2, l976

"A country is known by the moral values, My children. In the history of your world, if you consult and look, My children, you will find that your country and many in your world are now proceeding along the same course taken before the fall of an empire!" - Our Lady of the Roses, February 10, 1976

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Pope John Paul II says abortion to lead to downfall of democracies
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https://www.tldm.org/News8/PopeBenedictRelativism.htm

Spanish Cardinal: Totalitarian State inevitable without objective morality
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U.S. Comptroller General: Learn from the fall of Rome
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Without morality, America will collapse
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Archbishop Chaput says abortion is "central social issue of this moment" in U.S. history
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The parallels of slavery and abortion issues, Dred Scott and Roe v. Wade decisions
https://www.tldm.org/News7/ParallelsSlaveryAbortion.htm

America: Slouching towards Gomorrah
https://www.tldm.org/news5/gomorrah.htm

Separation of Church and State: "a fatal theory"
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President Washington: “Religion and morality are indispensable supports” to our country
https://www.tldm.org/news5/Washington.htm

Paul Harvey: "If I were the devil"
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God and our American Presidents
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President Lincoln's Proclamation for a Day of Prayer and Fasting
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Terrorism prophecies in Our Lady's message:

Our Lady of the Roses predicted 9-11, eleven years before to the day
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September 7, 1974 prophecy: "You will find the world engrossed in not only a worldly war of the flesh, but one of the spirit--a war of religion"
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