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xchrom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-20-11 10:57 AM
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The Pope's Difficult Visit to His Homeland
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,787314,00.html

One thing is already clear: The two men will be all smiles when they meet.

If all goes according to plan, German President Christian Wulff will greet the pope at 11:15 a.m. this Thursday in front of Bellevue Palace, the president's official residence in Berlin. Photographers and cameramen will be eagerly jostling for the best spots, security teams will be intently scanning the area, and Wulff will shake his guest's hand with the proper degree of decorum.

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Sticking to the Rules

Benedict is scheduled to arrive at Berlin's Olympic Stadium at 6 p.m., where he will celebrate mass and meet with Berlin's openly gay Mayor, Klaus Wowereit. Will the pope encourage Wowereit, a Catholic and a member of the center-left Social Democrats (SPD) who has been living with his partner for years, to practice abstinence and not to act out his proclivities, as his church demands of all homosexuals?

Luckily for the pope, he won't have any problems with two other prominent people he will meet in Berlin. Chancellor Angela Merkel (remarried) and German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle (gay) are both Protestants.

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thereismore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-20-11 11:01 AM
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1. Fatherland. nt
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onager Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-21-11 04:27 PM
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2. Here, let me fix that...
Luckily for the pope, he won't have any problems with two other prominent people he will meet in Berlin. Chancellor Angela Merkel (remarried) and German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle (gay) are both Protestants.

INSERT: And thanks to evil secular modernistic laws, he can no longer burn them at the stake. Along with that gay apostate.


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