Wednesday, April 2, 2008 at 2:02am
Ecuador pro-life lawmaker breaks mold
Rosanna Queirolo doesn't fit the standard profile of a pro-life activist. She's a former model who posed in skimpy outfits in Ecuadoran magazines and is a committed environmentalist. She was recently elected to Ecuador's constitutional convention on the socialist ticket. Queirolo, however, surprised her socialist Alianza PAIS party by becoming the Assembly's most outspoken advocate of human life and family, LifeSiteNews.com reported Tuesday.
Queirolo opposed attempts to insert language allowing homosexual unions into the new constitution favored by President Rafel Correa, also of Alianza PAIS. "God made us to procreate and the only way to procreate is through the union of a man with a woman. A constitution cannot include just any human invention," she said.
She also objected to the inclusion of the word "sexual preference" in the document instead of "sexual orientation," warning the former term could lead to approval of pedophilia and even bestiality.
The conflict between Queirolo and the majority Alianza PAIS heated up when Queirolo participated in street demonstrations demanding that God be mentioned in the new constitution as it is in the old and that the traditional family and the right to life be protected.
Queirolo opposed attempts to insert language allowing homosexual unions into the new constitution favored by President Rafel Correa, also of Alianza PAIS. "God made us to procreate and the only way to procreate is through the union of a man with a woman. A constitution cannot include just any human invention," she said.
She also objected to the inclusion of the word "sexual preference" in the document instead of "sexual orientation," warning the former term could lead to approval of pedophilia and even bestiality.
The conflict between Queirolo and the majority Alianza PAIS heated up when Queirolo participated in street demonstrations demanding that God be mentioned in the new constitution as it is in the old and that the traditional family and the right to life be protected.