null / Credit: ShutterstockACI Prensa Staff, May 25, 2023 / 16:30 pm (CNA).A Catholic bishop and Alliance Defending Freedom have criticized the 2022 ruling of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) on the Pavez Pavez vs. Chile case for proposing controversial nondiscrimination "training" regarding sexual orientation that could threaten the country s religious denominations.The court gave Chile, and indirectly the Church, two years to comply.ACI Prensa, CNA s Spanish-language news partner, recently interviewed Juan Ignacio González Errázuriz, the bishop of San Bernardo, Chile, where the controversy originated, to learn how the Church is dealing with the case.The prelate said the ruling handed down on April 20, 2022, against the Chilean state "implies that the independence of the Church or religious denominations is disavowed, and that is very serious and absolutely unacceptable.""The ruling jeopardizes the independence and autonomy of a religious den
Although Pavez was promoted to another position at the school, the woman decided to take legal action in the Chilean justice system, but since she didn’t get.
U.S. Senator Mike Lee, R-Utah, addresses the Conservative Political Action conference (CPAC) in Washington, February 11, 2011. | Reuters/Jonathan Ernst
Sen. Mike Lee of Utah said the United States has a strong history of religious freedom because it s âa nation of heretics.â
Lee was one of multiple guest speakers at an event on Tuesday sponsored by the International Center for Law and Religion Studies about religious freedom in the Americas.
During his comments, the senator said that âin a country like ours, in the United States of America, basically everyone falls intoâ the category of being a religious minority âin one way or another, at one time or another.â