Re: Activists criticise Pope for anti-gay remarks
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In Rome, Franco Grillini, a left-wing lawmaker and leading gay activist, said he had been "strongly disappointed" by the pope's "violent lecturing".
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Well, Catholics who flout the Church's rules can only expect that.
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"The Catholic Church should preach universal love.
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Why? 
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Instead, we see it entrenched in a fortress intent on defending an idea of family
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My God! Those evil b*stards! Whatever next! 
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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.
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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.
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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".
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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" 
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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.
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Yup, God's Rottweiler 
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Gay marriages are legal in several European countries, but not in overwhelmingly Catholic Italy.
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Well, I'm sure that won't last for long if it makes Mr Grillini any happier
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Wednesday, June 8th, 2005
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