From the gay rights news site Edge:

Ten years ago, the Catholic Church so vehemently opposed the inclusion of equality language for GLBTs in a reform of Venezuela’s constitution that those protections were excluded from the country’s bedrock law.

Now Catholic Bishops are protesting legislation, the “Organic Law for Gender Equity and Equality,” which they say would extend marriage to Venezuela’s gay and lesbian families.

Read the (LifeSiteNews) site’s text, “Although Venezuela is regarded as having the most leftist government in South America, its president, Hugo Chavez, has done little to promote anti-life and anti-family policies during his tenure.

“It remains to be seen if the alliance of socialist parties that support Chavez will advance the bill or will block it in accordance with traditional Venezuelan values.”

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