Pope Benedict Compares Saving Homosexuals to Saving the Rainforest
"(The Church) should also protect man from the destruction of himself. A sort of ecology of man is needed," the pontiff said in a holiday address to the Curia, the Vatican's central administration. "The tropical forests do deserve our protection. But man, as a creature, does not deserve any less."
The Catholic Church teaches that while homosexuality is not sinful, homosexual acts are. It opposes gay marriage and, in October, a leading Vatican official called homosexuality "a deviation, an irregularity, a wound."
The pope said humanity needed to "listen to the language of creation" to understand the intended roles of man and woman. He compared behavior beyond traditional heterosexual relations as "a destruction of God's work." He also defended the Church's right to "speak of human nature as man and woman, and ask that this order of creation be respected."
I agree with him to a point on the marriage issue, but the Roman Catholic church managed to conceal thousands of cases of homosexual acts of many priests, so to compare being a homosexual to saving the rainforest is actually an insult. Personally, the only thing I agree with him on is the issue of marriage. If it ever comes up for a vote in Georgia, I will most definitely vote against gay marriage. Sorry, folks, as a Christian, I just can't bring myself to see marriage as anything other than between a man and a woman. He needs to apologize to the millions of decent, hardworking and decents gays and lesbians for that comparison. Since when is the rainforest on par with humanity for the same attention and compassion?
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Post a CommentThe headline should say "Pope Benedict Compares Saving HETEROsexuals to Saving the Rainforest." Unfortunately, the pope seems to have misidentified the endangered party.
Kelly M -- I agree with you 100 percent. I agree, as a Christian, marriage should be between a man and a woman, however, it seems a little hypocritical to say that homosexuality is inherently okay, but to engage in sexual acts as homosexuals is a sin. That's a bunch of baloney. If you believe it is not a sin, then the acts should not be considered a sin either. I went to a Catholic high school and I can tell you one thing that shook me to the core. A priest impregnated a young girl and he died in a terrible car accident. He took advantage of that young girl and that is what I find shameful and hypocritical from the Pope and others. They indirectly condoned the actions of some of their priests who engaged in homosexual acts with young boys. Those boys were violated and some, literally, destroyed by the selfish actions of these priests. What did the various diocese do? They shuffled the priests between parishes to sweep it under a rug. The problem is you can't selectivey condemn the choi
I do agree the Pope can say that 'sacramental marriage' in the Catholic Church must be between a man and a woman. That is the Church's prerogative and since we have reserved marriage for procreation it makes doctrinal sense. I do not think the Catholic Church should interfere in civil marriage though, as we do not recognize civil marriage or divorce without sacramental blessing or church annulment. Leave the state out of our Church and its view on marriage and we should stay out of the State's civil views too..
I guess I just don't understand how the Church can be saying these things. There have always been gay Catholics. There have always been both gay and straight members of the clergy (all of whom are supposed to be celibate). If a homosexual orientiation is not inherently sinful, as Catholic teaching has held for centuries, then how can homosexual behavior be disordered? I grew up being taught that both heterosexual and homosexual activity outside of marriage was sinful - not that one was more sinful than the other. Now a big change? Seriously, after all the damage done by priests and a hierachy unwilling to deal effectively with predatory behavior, the last thing my Church needs is to get entrenched in a destructive step backward in our long history of being THE church standing up for human rights....