The head of the Vatican’s delegation to the UN has identified “gender ideology” as “violent” to the unborn and to the “integral needs of women and men within society.” In a speech to the fifty-fourth session of the Economic and Social Council's Commission on the Status of Women, Archbishop Celestino Migliore said that the concept of gender is becoming increasingly “ideologically driven, and actually delays the true advancement of women.”

            Migliore said that the goal of equality between men and women is being considered largely in the “context of gender equality.” Recent documents by the UN, he said, have used the gender concept to “dissolve every specificity and complementarity between men and women.”

             “These theories,” he said, “will not change the nature of things but certainly are already blurring and hindering any serious and timely advancement on the recognition of the inherent dignity and rights of women.”

What is gender ideology:

            Gender ideology, or “gender theory” is a key concept in the radical feminist and homosexualist ideologies. It proposes that the concept of “gender” is distinct from biological sex and that it is a learned set of behaviours or models that can be changed either at will or by social environmental factors.

            Gender ideologues have proposed that there are not two, but as many as eleven possible “genders” for human beings. They hold that the belief that “gender” is synonymous with biological sex is the foundation of homophobia and bigotry.

            In 2008, German author Gabrielle Kuby wrote in an essay that “gender mainstreaming” is a force that is being used to “dismantle civilization.” “The gender ideology,” she wrote, “is in the process of creating a new man, whose freedom should include the choice of his sex and sexual orientation.” (Hilary White, LifeSiteNews.com, Mar. 10/10).