This appeal is contained in a statement issued by participants at the recently concluded meeting of the organization held in Cape Town, South Africa, and made available to the Nigeria News Agency in Lagos on Monday.
The statement labeled "Cape Town Declaration" reaffirmed the critical role of traditional male-female marriage as the foundation of civilization.
According to the statement, "the family is the" first and foremost community "and that marriage is" the conjugal bond of man and woman.
"This definition is not a matter of preference or temperament or taste," the signatories declared, but "the heart of any just social order."
A prosperous culture will firmly resist every attempt to redefine marriage to include: homosexual or group ties, or sexually open or temporary relationships. "
The document also stated that the nature of marriage between a man and a woman is "a truth that no government can change."
He said the statement was a historic step in the global struggle to preserve the truth about marriage.
He said that forcing the agenda of same-sex marriage in nations by manipulating foreign aid or the like was a deplorable practice.
Those who signed the declaration pledged to work to regain true understanding of marriage in places where governments had imposed an unwanted and unjustified distortion of marriage on society, he said.
"In addition to betting their names on the document, the signatories also pledged to resist the growing cultural imperialism of the Western powers whose governments seek nothing less than the ideological colonization of the family.
"Do not bow down to any earthly power, using every fair measure, we will not waver or fight until the truth about marriage is embraced in our laws and honored in our lands," the document said.
"The new text is reminiscent of the 2009 Manhattan Declaration, which garnered some 440,000 signatures in its first year.
"While the Manhattan Declaration pointed to three points: the sanctity of life, the dignity of marriage and religious freedom, the Cape Town Declaration decided to specifically focus on marriage and family.
"Our goal is to win 2 million signatures in the Cape Town Declaration within a year from today: December 11, Universal Human Rights Day," the statement said.
NAN reports that this statement was released on 10 December, International Day of Human Rights to commemorate the anniversary of the proclamation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the United Nations General Assembly in Paris on 10 December Of 1948.
Mr. Brian Brown, President of IOF, Bishop Emmanuel Badejo of the Catholic Diocese of Oyo, Nigeria, as well as other religious, political, social and civic leaders from other continents, added their signatures to the document.
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