That’s vital. While the LDS church in Argentina had announced its neutrality to the gay-marriage legalization issue, a senior church official, Carlos Aguero had reportedly attended a rally to protest against same-sex marriage along with other religious leaders.
The church, however has maintained that this move should not be construed as an official position of the church. A church spokesperson was quoted as saying. “The [LDS] Church has made its support of traditional marriage clear but it does not involve itself institutionally in every same-sex election contest. The church took no official position on the marriage legislation in Argentina and did not organize its members to participate in opposing the legislation.”
However, the matter assumes great importance because the rally, which many prominent Christian leaders from other orthodox churches had attended, drew huge crowd support in its opposition to this landmark proposition. On Sunday, an assembly of Mormon Church leaders reiterated their support for ‘traditional’ marriage. Nevertheless, the Argentinean Senate has already ratified this, thus becoming the first Latin American country to legalize same-sex marriage. Uruguay and Colombia have already allowed civil unions for homosexual couples. Hopefully, we might see more progress soon.
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