As if on cue, the Vatican has resumed it’s quest to alienate europeans, and invalidate itself within the modern word.
From the second article, a quote from the Spanish prime minister:
“One of the guarantees of democracy is the freedom of religion, freedom of opinion and freedom to carry out a political project with the citizens’ vote.”
And on the specific topic of the spanish gay-marriage bill:
Justice Minister Juan Fernando Lopez Aguilar argued that the bill overcomes “the barriers of discrimination, many of them with deep historical or primitive roots, which affect rights and freedoms and, in a specific way, the extension of free choice in the search for happiness, an unwritten basic right”.