Cardinal fears Church could face court on abortion. Cardinal Alfonso Lopez Trujillo, head of the Vatican's Pontifical Council for the Family, criticized several Western countries for allowing abortion and introducing gay marriage and civil unions. Here is the Reuters article.

The Cardinal says:

I fear that faced with current legislation, speaking in defense of life, of the rights of the family, is becoming in some societies a crime against the state, a form of disobedience of the government, a discrimination against women. The Church risks being brought in front of some international court, if the debate gets any more tense, if the most radical opinions are heeded.

The Cardinal also said that gay marriage is "absolute nothingness". He said:

Civil unions are a legal fiction, two people who promise each other nothing, who promise nothing to their children nor to the state but want the same rights as marriage.

The countries he singled out for his concerns included Spain, Belgium, the Netherlands and Nordic countries. If American liberals get their way, these teachings could also become "crimes against the state" in the States. As Ann Coulter says, liberalism is entrenched as the state religion of this country, and liberals are intolerant of any challenges to their secular religion.