This story in the Buenos Aires Herald reports on the groups rallying for natural marriage, but it doesn’t give an estimate of the crowd. We’ll have to rely on our friends on the ground there, to let us know their estimates of the numbers of people there. As in the US, this cause of natural marriage is an inter-faith effort.
The demonstration was organized by the Lay Department of the Argentine Episcopal Conference (DEPLAI), the Christian Alliance of Evangelic Churches (ACIERA), the Pentecostal Evangelic Confraternity Federation (FECEP), and self-convened families, that were joined by representatives of the Muslim and Jewish communities.
(Note: The Argentine Episcopal conference is approximately the equivalent of the US Confernece of Catholic Bishops.)
This kind of interfaith cooperatiion is not so common in Latin America as it might be in the US. Once again, the Holy Spirit is at work, uniting people across the faith traditions.
Also like the US, this rally focused on the positive: what are we for, rather than, what are we against:
“We’re not against any community, but we want to be clear: marriage is between a man and a woman, and children’s rights -to have a mother and a father- cannot be violated,” one of the organizers explained to media.
In the meantime, a little birdie told me that some of our friends from Argentina will be interviewed on Radio Nueva Vida next week. they will help the Spanish-speaking community in the US become familiar with the struggle for natural marriage in South America.
