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*bright* Who wants to be super offended at the Catholic Church two days before Christmas?

Pope likens "saving" gays to saving the rainforest

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Benedict said on Monday that saving humanity from homosexual or transsexual behavior was just as important as saving the rainforest from destruction.

"(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."

*head. on. desk.*

I've been doing research on the Quakers recently for this thing I'm writing. They sound awfully sane compared to this.

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I was raised Quaker so I can try to answer any questions you might have and its always worked out pretty well for me though my Meeting was really liberal, being based on the Swarthmore College campus does that.

Oh, thank you! I'll keep it in mind. :)

He's been badly mistranslated, actually. What he says is still disturbing, but he hasn't actually mentioned homosexuality at all in the original speech. The journalists are mostly having a field day with a snappy offensive soundbit.

lizw has a good summary here if you want to see.

Oh, thank you for the link! I will pass this on to people.

I have the sudden urge to go around being as openly gay as is humanly possible. -_-

Y HELO THAR

Y HELO

WANNA GO WHERE THE POPE DOES NOT BELONG? :D

I think this is a good strategy in any situation involving the Roman Catholic Church.

I now have a mental image of same-sex couples making out at pro-choice rallies. Thank you.