Over one million Spaniards demonstrate for marriage and family

Mainstream media systematically misreports attendance figures - Reuters, Associated Press deflate official figures

Over one million Spaniards demonstrate for marriage and family...

"Pray constantly your Rosary, your beads of prayer to Heaven. Remain unified in your family lives. The institution of your country--the great foundation is based on family life. Destroy the family and you destroy your country. The enemies--the enemy is already within your country. Watch and pray well, My children." - Our Lady of the Roses, June 18, 1980

LifeSiteNews.com reported on January 3, 2008:

Between one and two million people gathered in Madrid's Colón Plaza and surrounding streets on December 30th to affirm the values of marriage and family, and to protest the socialist government's attacks on the institution.

The gathering, held only three months before Spain's presidential elections, was addressed by Pope Benedict XVI by video link from St. Peter's Square, where he told the crowds that "the family, founded on marriage, an indissoluble communion of man and woman, is the sphere where the life of man is protected."

"It is worthwhile to work for family and marriage," said the Pontiff, "because it is worthwhile to work for man."

The Pope also observed that "parents have the fundamental obligation to educate their children in the faith," and said that through their marriage, couples are "the testimony in the world" of the love of Christ for mankind.

The gigantic rally, which was called the "Encuentro de las Familias" (Family Encounter) was held in response to the anti-family policies of Spain's socialist government, led by José Rodríguez Zapatero. The Zapatero regime has instituted "homosexual marriage" and has mandated a school indoctrination program that teaches students to accept homosexual behavior. In addition, the socialist government of the Province of Catalonia has officially joined an international homosexual organization which previously lost its UN recognition for promoting pedophilia (see previous LifeSiteNews coverage at http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2007/oct/07103009.html).

Spain has also experienced a skyrocketing abortion rate in recent years, and in the last month the Spanish media has reported numerous cases of illegal late term abortions. One Spanish news channel, Intereconomía, has actually broadcast footage of two late term abortions and showed viewers the chopped up remains of children at over five months gestation. Several abortion clinics in Barcelona and Madrid have been shut down and several doctors and clinic personnel, including Spain's "Abortion King" Carlos Morín, are being prosecuted.

Although the government of Madrid estimated that one million people had participated in the event, and organizers gave an estimate of two million, the international mainstream media repeatedly chose to report that "hundreds of thousands" or even "tens of thousands" had come. Others claimed that no attendance figures were available. No explanation was given by the agencies, which included Reuters and the Associated Press, for deflating the official figures.

In addition to the multitudes who came from Madrid and other Spanish cities, forty Catholic bishops attended the rally, which was lead by the Cardinal Archbishop of Madrid, Antonio María Rouco. Rouco blasted Spain's current government for its anti-family policies, warning that "principles and lifestyles opposed to indissoluble marriage and the transmission of life" are "favored by the existing laws" in Spain.

"The origin and purpose of marriage, its constitutive elements and its principles are predetermined by God through the natural law," Rouco said to the crowd. Neither private groups nor government, he said, "may manipulate those principles and essential elements at their pleasure."

"There's no time to lose!" said Rouco passionately. "The Christian response to this crucial question for our future, of Spain, and of all humanity is urgent!"

The President of Spain's Episcopal Conference, Bishop Ricardo Blázquez, told the multitude that "the family is a treasure" and added that "in this encounter we want truth, beauty, and the greatness of marriage and family to shine."

"The family is traditional, because it has its roots in the very nature of humanity," he said. "It is ancient and new, its validity is of yesterday, today, and tomorrow. The measure of its truth is its permanence."

The Cardinal Archbishop of Toledo, Antonio Cañizares, said that Spain's family is threatened by "unjust and evil laws."

Spain's ruling socialist party responded in a statement entitled, "Everything in its Place," claiming "respect" for such expressions of public opinion, but defending its policies and promising that "we won't take a single step back."

"We will continue working to ensure that Spanish citizens are freer and have more rights, and so that, at the same time, that our society is increasingly more respectful and tolerant," said the party, referring to its "gay marriage" policy.

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"The act of marriage blessed by the Father must not be dissolved to suit mankind in his carnal nature and loss of the knowledge of God. What God has joined together no man shall place asunder." - Our Lady of the Roses, December 28, 1974

"Are you so blind that you do not recognize the acceleration of sin among you? Murders abound, thievery, all manner of carnage, destruction of young souls, abortion, homosexuality, condemned from the beginning of time by the Eternal Father. Yet sin has become a way of life. Sin is condoned now, even unto the highest judge of your land and your lands throughout the world. As you have sown so shall you reap. Sin is death, not only of the spirit, but of the body. Wars are a punishment for man's sin, his greed, his avarice." - Our Lady of the Roses, August 14, 1981

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THE GREAT FOUNDATION
"Pray constantly your Rosary, your beads of prayer to Heaven. Remain unified in your family lives. The institution of your country--the great foundation is based on family life. Destroy the family and you destroy your country. The enemies--the enemy is already within your country. Watch and pray well, My children." - Our Lady, June 18, 1980

JOINED
"The act of marriage blessed by the Father must not be dissolved to suit mankind in his carnal nature and loss of the knowledge of God. What God has joined together no man shall place asunder." - Our Lady, December 28, 1974

DESPICABLE
"The Eternal Father has given mankind a set of rules, and in discipline they must be obeyed. It behooves Me to say that My heart is torn by the actions, the despicable actions, of My clergy. I unite, as your God, man and woman into the holy state of matrimony. And what I have bound together no man must place asunder. And what do I see but broken homes, marriages dissolved through annulments! It has scandalized your nation, and it is scandalizing the world. Woe to the teachers and leaders who scandalize the sheep!" - Jesus, May 3, 1978

PROPAGATION
"The act of the union of the flesh was created as the means for the propagation of life upon your earth. We have seen the defaming of this sacred ritual of your God. You fornicate like animals, and when you sin you will not stand up and accept the fruits of your vulgarity.
"The union of the flesh will produce as the Father has deemed it. Should you use this in any manner contrary to the laws of your God, you shall reap what you have
sown." - Our Lady, May 10, 1972

HUMANAE VITAE*
"The encyclical of Pope Paul on birth control is true and must be followed by mankind. There shall be no rationalization of sin. There shall be no excuse for the murder of the unborn. Sin has become a way of life among mankind, but Heaven does not condone murder. Heaven cannot condone sin, though the Eternal Father in His mercy is most merciful and long suffering and forgiving." - Our Lady, October 2, 1976

*The encyclical letter, Humanae Vitae [Of Human Life] by Pope Paul VI, principally forbidding the use of artificial contraceptives in the regulation of births, under pain of mortal sin. It was issued in 1968 amidst great controversy generated by dissident theologians and others, who clamored for a reversal of this timeless doctrine. This godless pursuit was dealt a heavy glow when our Holy Father, speaking as the supreme teacher of the Church, gently but firmly articulated the constant teaching of the Church. We recommend that you read and study this momentous encyclical letter, Humanae Vitae.

STRENGTH
"The strength for souls will be found in the family circle." - Our Lady, December 31, 1972

ANNULMENTS
"Families are disintegrating. I must tell you now, My children, the family must be returned to the holy state it was constructed for. We shall never approve nor accept marriage and cohabitation without marriage. We shall not accept the annulments that are being given now to so many without due cause." - Our Lady, September 27, 1986

COMMON-LAW
"O My child and My children, never have We seen from the beginning of time a world in such chaos. And also, I shall not speak with words that affright your heart, my child, but I wish it known that this new modern role of what they call 'marriage without marriage'-which means living as 'common-law,' I understand--My children shall not be tolerated in Heaven. It was never the plan of the Eternal Father that man and woman shall live as animals.
"Fornication shall never be accepted. There is no excuse for fornication. If you cannot remain celibate, better then that you must then be married. It is better, My child and My children, to be married than to burn in hell.
"I also ask that all of My children of the world review the Ten Commandments." - Our Lady, November 1, 1985

BLACK CLOUD
"My children, when My Son returns upon your earth, will He find even a flicker of faith left in the hearts of mankind? In the days of Sodom, so too were men giving themselves over to all the pleasures of the flesh: eating, drinking, marrying, giving in marriage. All manner of sinful lusts were being committed. Men shameful with men, women casting aside their role of motherhood and lusting after women. As it was in the days of Sodom, so now is this black cloud over America." - Our Lady, July 14, 1979

SACREDNESS
"The sacredness of marriage and the married life of man and woman must not be destroyed by debased sensuality. It is a private consummation between man and woman and the family. It is not an object of derisive laughter and scornful jokes, My children.
"Your actions are observed by the Eternal Father Who looks into your heart. Pure thoughts, pure mind, pure spirit--what goes into the heart will come out." - Our Lady, August 21, 1975

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