Pope Says Gay Marriage Threat To Creation

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Pope Says Gay Marriage Threat To Creation

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Pope Says Gay Marriage Threat To Creation

Philip Pullella
VATICAN CITY
Mon Jan 11, 2010 10:10am EST

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Benedict on Tuesday linked the Church's opposition to gay marriage to concern about the environment, suggesting that laws undermining "the differences between the sexes" were threats to creation. The pope made his comments in an address to diplomats in his yearly assessment of world events. The main theme of the address was the environment and the protection of creation.

"To carry our reflection further, we must remember that the problem of the environment is complex; one might compare it to a multifaceted prism," he said. "Creatures differ from one another and can be protected, or endangered, in different ways, as we know from daily experience. One such attack comes from laws or proposals which, in the name of fighting discrimination, strike at the biological basis of the difference between the sexes," he said.

"I am thinking, for example, of certain countries in Europe or North and South America," he said. This was a clear reference to legislation either enacted or proposed in several part of the world. Last month, Mexico City became the first capital in Catholic Latin America to allow same-sex marriage. In California, the U.S. state's ban on gay marriage goes to trial on Monday in a federal case that plaintiffs hope to take all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court and overturn bans throughout the nation.

Gay marriage is legal is several U.S. states and some European countries. "Yet freedom cannot be absolute, since man is not God, but the image of God, God's creation. For man, the path to be taken cannot be determined by caprice or willfulness, but must rather correspond to the structure willed by the Creator," he said. In his speech to diplomats from more than 170 countries, the pope repeated the themes of his message for the Church's World Day of Peace on January 1, which said industrialized nations must recognize their responsibility for the environmental crisis, shed their consumerism and embrace more sober lifestyles.

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- The only thing gay marriage is a threat to is your old ass and all those funny hat-wearing wags of yours, who genuflect at your command. Because your scam would be over and you know it, you old fart. Well, you can holler and whine all you want but that day is coming anyhow. The lie of religion is falling apart at its tattered seams.

One would have thought any comments you'd be making right now would be directly to the victims of your sexually abusive priests from Ireland rather than scrambling around trying to save your old Nazi ass from its deserved fate. So suck it Pimpster......
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