Pope defends family as Spanish gays hold 'kiss-in'

[defendandprotect]

Pope defends family as Spanish gays hold 'kiss-in'

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As he headed to the basilica, about 200 gays and lesbians staged a 'kiss-in' to protest his visit and church policies that consider homosexual acts "intrinsically disordered." Later, a few hundred women marched to protest their second-class status in the church and the Vatican's opposition to birth control.

On Saturday, Benedict blasted such policies, saying today's "aggressive" anti-church, secular movement in Spain was reminiscent of the 1930s, when the church suffered violent persecution as the country lurched from an unstable democracy to civil war.

At a separate, feminist-inspired demonstration, upwards of 500 people marched behind banners reading "The woman decides to be a mother" and "Condoms save, the pope damns."

One of the organizers, Montse Cervara, said it was important to voice opposition, since the church is "against all the rights we have fought to have recognized, like the right to choose."


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/eu_pope




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Of course, gays don't come from families, nor have families of their own!

And this Church is based on a priesthood -- without wives nor offspring!


:eyes:

[socialshockwave]

1. Good ol' Pope-A-Dope

The man likes to compare EVERYTHING to "secular, anti-church" things.

Atheism is Nazism according to him, and now a peaceful gay and feminist sit in is some kind of Franco-istic policy.

Gotta love Catholicism. Fair and equal and loving - if you're a straight male.

[yourout]

2. Or a male pedofile.

[Goblinmonger]

3. Yeah, sure Benny

Gays are like Franco.

What a douchebag.

[Ikonoklast]

4. Benny *wishes* gays were like Franco.

Rome LOVED the Generalissimo, even though he was a PITA to them sometimes.

[defendandprotect]

5. True ... Vatican supported Franco....American Catholics supported Franco ....

because of that --

making it even more difficult for FDR to act against Franco --


Love the way the right wing turns the world upside down to hide reality!!

:)

[Ikonoklast]

6. He was busy killin' Commies fer Christ.

Can't let them Commies take over the property of the RCC now, doncha know.


If any Communist government of movement anywhere on this planet ever told Rome that they would still have a free hand in their country no matter what, Benny would be there the next day planting kisses on their arse.

[AngryOldDem]

7. Church depends on families to provide priests.

That's why the Church often decries people who don't want/have a bazillion kids. Those families are being "selfish" because they won't be able to fork over one or two kids to the cause. Or, as I once read one priest put it, people are "selfish" for not encouraging vocations among their kids because they want grandchildren.

:crazy:

Pretzel logic. I think the Church thinks it wins arguments based on sound logic, when in fact it so twists the logic that people walk away out of disgust and futility.