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Spain candidate would end gay adoption

MADRID, Feb. 11 The Spanish People's Party presidential candidate Mariano Rajoy promised to end homosexual adoptions if he is elected in March, according to Spanish media reports. "In the area of adoption I'm not in agreement. I would change it, yes, I would take the right away from them (homosexual couples)," said Rajoy in an interview Sunday, LifeSiteNews.com reported Monday.

Regarding the controversial "Education for Citizenship and Human Rights" program, which teaches pro-homosexual ideology to children in Spanish elementary schools, Rajoy said he would eliminate it and substitute language and technology classes. "I think that if we are talking about teaching values or principles, that should be studied in all classes," he said.

Rajoy, whose party is regarded as the more conservative of Spain's two major parties, is running a close second to socialist president José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero. Zapatero's Socialist Worker's Party passed a "homosexual marriage" law in 2005 that has been bitterly opposed by pro-family groups, who also resent the government's attempts to impose the homosexual political agenda on their children.

Although the People's Party differs little in its social policies from the Socialist Worker's Party, it has occupied the position of Spain's major "right-wing" alternative to the socialists since 1982. This year it is positioning itself marginally closer to a pro-family position in an attempt to secure the votes of the country's orthodox Catholic sector.

Copyright 2008 by United Press International.

This news arrived on: 02/12/2008

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