Activists criticise Pope for anti-gay remarks

[Nerthus]

Activists criticise Pope for anti-gay remarks


7 June 2005

ROME - Gay activists in Italy and Germany on Tuesday strongly criticised Pope Benedict XVI after the recently-elected head of the Roman Catholic Church condemned same-sex unions as fake and a threat to the future of the family.

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[Prussian]

Originally Posted by Aeternitas

ROME - Gay activists in Italy and Germany on Tuesday strongly criticised Pope Benedict XVI after the recently-elected head of the Roman Catholic Church condemned same-sex unions as fake and a threat to the future of the family.

Condemned for speaking the truth? It seems the limp wrist crew don't like being reminded of their degenerate perversions that are no matter how one looks at it as the complete opposite to the concept of marriage itself. That being the holy union of the opposite genders.

[Milesian]

In Rome, Franco Grillini, a left-wing lawmaker and leading gay activist, said he had been "strongly disappointed" by the pope's "violent lecturing".

Well, Catholics who flout the Church's rules can only expect that.

"The Catholic Church should preach universal love.

Why?

Instead, we see it entrenched in a fortress intent on defending an idea of family

My God! Those evil b*stards! Whatever next!

sexuality and relationships between people that is made up of sadness and prohibition," Grillini said in a statement. The reactions followed remarks made by the 78-year-old pontiff on Monday.

The majority of people in the world (ie. decent heterosexuals) don't consider a stable, monogamous heterosexual family unit as being made up of "sadness and prohibition". Quite the contrary. Perhaps a monogamous relationship and stable families bring sadness to homosexuals like him, but that's their tough luck.

Addressing families gathered at Rome's St. John's Cathedral, the pope spoke of "the pseudo-matrimonies between people of the same sex" as "expressions of anarchic freedom which falsely tries to pass itself off as the true liberation of man".

Nicely put . Mind you the truth hurts so it was pretty brave of him to utter it publicly in this day and age of "Free Speech" and "Liberty"

German-born Joseph Ratzinger, who was elected pope last April, had already expressed strongly conservative views on homosexuality with a 2003 document he wrote while he was still a cardinal heading the Church's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, the Vatican's doctrinal watchdog.

Yup, God's Rottweiler

Gay marriages are legal in several European countries, but not in overwhelmingly Catholic Italy.

Well, I'm sure that won't last for long if it makes Mr Grillini any happier

[Ederico]

I can only say: VIVA IL-PAPA!