Pope calls gay marriage an 'attack on creation'

[ccharles000]

Pope Benedict XVI has called gay marriage laws an "attack" on the natural differences between men and women.

Speaking just after Portugal's parliament voted to legalise same-sex marriage, the pontiff addressed the comments to the Vatican diplomatic corps in a message which focused on environmental issues.

This is not the first time he has used environmental messages to preach about the sins of gay people.

In an end-of year address in 2008, he said that the existence of gay people threatens humanity as much as the destruction of the rainforests does and that "blurring" genders through acceptance of transgender people would kill off the human race.

According to AFP, he spoke about protecting or endangering creatures including humans in today's address and said: "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."

http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2010/01/11/pope-calls-gay-marriage-an-attack-on-creation/

[Solly Mack]

1. Idiot

[roguevalley]

50. and celebacy isn't. the pope is a dick. oh wait, he can't use it.

[muffin1]

2. What a turd.

Same-sex marriage = bad. Child fucking and cover-up of said child fucking = good.
Gotta love it. Give me that ol' time religion!

[HeresyLives]

3. They're gay, Bennie, not infertile.

[musette_sf]

4. So what are "celibate" men who wear dresses and molest children

(including male children) an "attack on"?

[winyanstaz]

43. those are called pedophiles....and they are not gay...

they are sick bastards that prey on kids.
Sometimes they are also called priests.

[musette_sf]

57. that was kind of exactly my point

Gay is not something one "chooses"

Gay is natural

Gay is normal

So I think Ratzo has better things to do as far as cleaning his own house is concerned. Child predators ARE actually an attack on creation.

[winyanstaz]

59. yup...

and I was just agreeing in a backwards sort of way :P

[Atticus]

5. "You no play-a the game, you no make-a the rules".---Earl Butz, Nixon's Secretary

of Agriculture, about a previous pope.

[flvegan]

6. Bigot. n/t

[hlthe2b]

7. We all know Ratzinger's not able to EVOLVE....

so, somehow, this does not surprise me. Catholic POrtugal gave him quite a fit, I guess, with their recent legalization of gay marriage. (I can almost hear him stomping his red prada slippers)

[dana_b]

8. "blurring" genders through acceptance of transgender people would kill off the human race

if that statement weren't so offensive, I would rofl. I really don't think that God would choose someone so ignorant to be his/her voice on earth.

[name not needed]

9. There's nothing I love more than listening to an 80 year old virgin criticize my sex life.

[winyanstaz]

44. exactly :).....

[Forkboy]

10. Forkboy calls the Pope an attack on intelligence.

[Skittles]

11. oh gawd

and people really want to hear what this assclown has to say? pitiful

[Starry Messenger]

12. Dear Pope,

My sainted Irish Catholic mom left the Church after 65 years over all the money spent to defeat gay marriage in Maine. Nice going. :thumbsup:

[saigon68]

13. A n enabler of child RAPISTS opens his pie hole

Ex-Nazi POS

[Terra Alta]

14. the Pope himself is an "attack on creation"

and I have to wonder, how many priests and nuns are gay/lesbian and joined the Catholic church to disguise their homosexuality.

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[jgraz]

16. Says the guy in the gold-leaf hat and red leather shoes.

:eyes:

[jwirr]

17. My guess is that he would say the same thing about birth control. nt

[GoneOffShore]

18. Cool - Is he going to smite Ham & Hovind?

Oh, I thought you meant Creationism.

My bad.

[Canuckistanian]

19. Another 283,583 Catholics lost

Keep it up, Papa Ratzi. Pretty soon, you'll have alienated HALF of your flock.

Dumbass.

[mindwalker_i]

20. As a straight married man

The pope can go fuck himself.

[TexasObserver]

21. Recommend. Nutso the Nazi is my least favorite Pope.

They're all obnoxious and presumptuous, but he's really a world class jerk.

[greennina]

22. It is an attack on creating more people...

and that's a great thing. If about 7/8 of the people in the world dissappeared, it would be great for the planet.

Of course, do you really expect an admitted member of white supremesist group to make sense? He wasn't just a run of the mill KKK member like all of the Republicans here. He was a Nazi.

[chollybocker]

23. If I were a praying man,*

I'd pray for puffs of white smoke over Vatican City. For starters.

*not

[marmar]

24. Ah Pope Rat, what would the world do without your medieval insights?

:freak:

[stillwaiting]

25. This language is what kills and destroys people's lives.

May he find his karmic due.

[ThomCat]

26. He is a bigot

and he promotes bigotry. :grr:

And yet people whine and complain if we don't pretend to respect this asshole. :wtf:

[nadinbrzezinski]

27. He'd love to bring the mother church back to the 10th century

and he is an idiot.

By the way idiot, what will be about 10% of the population doing what OTHER HIGHER CHORDATES do as well?

Oh never mind, we are above nature, aren't we? :sarcasm:

[pipi_k]

28. Just wondering when he thinks all this "blurring of genders" business started

I mean, did it just start in October of 1992?


Maybe his Pope-ness doesn't realize that gays, etc., have been around for millennia. If what he says is true about it killing off the human race, we should all be dead ten times over.

sigh...even popes can be idiots....

[lazarus]

29. idiot

but no different from all the other idiots opposed to gay marriage. Well, a little different, since some people seem to take his shit seriously.

[ruggerson]

30. like the gown, but your handbag is on fire, you asshole

n/t

[Nikki Stone1]

31. Says a celibate with no children who encourages other men to do the same?

The irony meter just broke.

[Jamastiene]

32. So, Hitler Youth wasn't?

What a fuckhead. He needs to atone for his bullshit before he goes throwing stones at others.

[LeftyMom]

33. A man in a hand embroidered dress, red Prada shoes and a hat that would embarrass Aretha

really has no business holding others to strict gender roles.

[Bluebear]

34. "Celibate" child molesters are an attack on "creation". nt

[Union Yes]

35. We live in the age of science. Where is the scientific evidence of a creator, Mr Pope? nt

[Initech]

36. Nazi Popes fuck off.

[Forkboy]

37. heh

:thumbsup:

[LeftyMom]

38. I award you +1 internet.

Use it wisely.

[Initech]

39. I wont spend it all in one place!

[Generic Other]

40. would someone please cast him into the sea

in front of the Japanese whaling fleet?

Oh and edited to add. Didn't his God make the first transgender person out of Adam's rib?

[KamaAina]

41. And who would know more about attacks than an alumnus of the Hitlerjugend?

:shrug:

[piratefish08]

42. fuck you pope nazi.

religion will be the final blow to this planet.....

[donheld]

45. To hell with that fool

[Betty Karlson]

46. Mr Ratzinger is an abomination unto the Lord

Every time he uses God's holy name, he does so in connection with lies, distortions, or superstitions that have nothing o do with God's laws and grace. The man is a continuous blasphemy.

May God forgive him - few others will.

Incidentally, for someone so vociferous in his objections to the death penalty, it was probably too much to ask to pontificate on the present plight of gay and lesbian people in Uganda (where even the suspicion of being gay can get you a death sentence)? Of course it was. He was probably too busy wooing the homophobe anglicans of Nigeria to come over to his church.

[Flying Dream Blues]

47. Because Jesus was all about the hate, I'm sure he's glad you're

here to represent him, Ratzi.
:sarcasm:

[DRoseDARs]

48. The altar boys under his gilded dress agree. n/t

[Zhade]

49. Better go after the animal kingdom then, RATzinger.

Lots of same-sex lovin' going on there.

I can't believe that there are still people dumb enough to give a fuck what this moron says in this day and age.

[sofa king]

51. Now that I think of it, I guess it is.

Discrimination against homosexuals is bullshit, and so is creation. If you've got to defend all the bullshit at the same time, then yeah, calling out one obvious bit of bullshit is sure to draw attention to all the other bullshit, and the next thing you know the Cardinals are fighting over the Tarn-X 'cause you can't afford to buy it in bulk anymore.

But I happen to think that a smart guy like the Pope can probably figure out how to admit one of those two things is crap, while still keeping an army of doofuses on the line for all those other things.

Between you and me, Ben, I'd tell 'em God said it.

[tango-tee]

52. I really hate to admit it,

but I'm from Germany. Worse, I'm from Bavaria. This is also where I live at the moment. Bavaria, where in this fool's home town they bake pope-cakes (shouldn't they be perhaps be called poop-cakes) in his honor?

Is there no end to this idiocy? There are times I want to despair.

In solidarity and love with my GLBT brothers and sisters.

[mdmc]

53. Won't somebody please think of the big bang!

How will it stand this attack!

[thereismore]

54. Is Pope's God shaking in his boots like he is? Such little faith! nt

[Nye Bevan]

55. Jesus never said that.

And Jesus never said not to use condoms.

This guy should concentrate on what Jesus taught, instead of just making stuff up.

[mnhtnbb]

56. The Catholic Church is becoming more irrelevant every day.

[Soylent Brice]

58. how come more catholics have not questioned their faith and religious leaders since

this guy was "voted" in?

dumbfounding.