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The Pope has used his Christmas message to say that “saving” humanity from homosexual or transsexual behaviour is as important as protecting the rainforests.

Benedict XVI said: “It [the Church] must defend not only the earth, the water and the air as gifts of creation belonging to everyone, but it must also protect mankind against the destruction of itself. The tropical forests deserve our protection, but man as a creature deserves it no less.”

In comments which provoked outrage among human rights groups, he went on to say that the failure to respect the “order of creation” as a union between a man and a woman was a form of “auto-destruction of mankind”.

Anything that deviated from this was a “destruction of God’s works,” the Pope told the Curia, the Vatican’s ruling body.

Under the teachings of the Catholic Church, homosexual acts are a sin and it also strongly condemns same sex marriages. Two months ago the Vatican said that homosexuality was “a deviation, an irregularity, a wound”.

The 81-year-old Pope also attacked those who underwent sex changes, saying: “It is not man who decides who is a man or woman but God.”

The Vatican expressed concerns this month at a UN attempt to decriminalise homosexuality because they feared it would encourage same sex unions.

Aurelio Mancuso, president of Italian gay rights group Arcigay, said: “While Italian citizens are tackling one of the worst economic crisis in the history of the country, the Catholic Church has for weeks talked only of the gay threat the world faces.” Mr Mancuso said that “gays have become an obsession” with the Pope, adding: “He spends his whole time talking about gender, an argument that geriatrics are passionately obsessed about.”

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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/pharaohzulu1/ pharaohzulu1

    …”As so created … anything, any group, or entity, that are not ['self sustaining'] shall surely perish.”

    For the realist – these are the simplistics enshrined in the LAW of evolution, and howsoever, absolved (spun), its fundamental allegiance is, and will always be purely academic … homosexuality does not incorporate nor does it promote change, thus, stagnant – life and the whole of its processes are about ['change'] movement … that which doesn’t, produces a negative which is left to feed upon itself…

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/RFFNY1/ RFFNY1

    There is one and only one thing that Satan really wants, and that is to be exactly like the Most High; GOD. In the Holy Bilbe, which is the rule and guide for our faith and practice in life, it mentions GOD’s inheritance throughout. That inheretance is your soul. If your soul is denied by the Most High, it goes to HELL where Satan will most assuredly welcome the companay. GOD gave man/woman choice. It’s your choice; CHOSE. And for those who try to use the “crutch” that “I was born this way”; remember this ” MANY MAKE PLANS TO MAKE PEACE WITH THEIR GOD AT THE MID-NIGHT OF THEIR LIVES; ONLY TO DIE AT ELEVEN THIRTY.

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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/KnotChoAverageJoe/ KnotChoAverageJoe

    Now this is news we should be getting. Good post too. Nice to know more people know that choosing gayness has nothin to do with civil rights.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Vidian-Lawrence/100000716673427 Vidian Lawrence

    There is One God. Jehovah is the Lord Hunter God. His Consort is the Birth Mother Goddess Wisdom (Sophia) of Proverbs 8. They are ONE in Marriage, as Adam and Eve are ONE in Marriage. Jesus Christ is Their Son. The Goddess Wisdom Possessed Christ. She was Possessed by the Lord Before the Foundation of the Earth. Christ Claims to be Her when He said in John 17:24, “Father…… You loved Me Before the Foundation of the Earth.” Wisdom said this in Proverbs 8. Every Church Pastor, Priest, Minister, Etc., knows of the Goddess Wisdom, but deny Her existence. Solomon Worshiped Her as well as King David. Wicca Means the Craft of the Wise. One cannot be Wise without the Consort of Jehovah, Wisdom. She is the Goddess of Alchemy. The Jewish Star is an Alchemical symbol. The Wiccan Pope of WiccanPope.com serves Israel. Christ is the King of the Jews. The first Pope was Peter a Jew!!! The 12 disciples or Coven (Church) consisted of Jews. Rome Stole Israel’s Church. Judaic Christianity is the true Religion of Christ and His children. The Wiccan Pope believes a Jew needs to be Pope of the Christian Church, not a Previous Nazi Roman. Peter had a Wife. She was his Popess. The belief that the Pope and his so called Priests not being able to marry is against the original Judaic Christian Law. Peter said, “Don’t Christians have a right to marry a sister of the faith, like Peter?” Hail Israel, and her King Christ who is Mother Wisdom incarnate. Wiccan Pope

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_GXXPV4QQHPFEMMWIKWZOWE6ZJU Edward

    oh shut up with that nonsense

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_GXXPV4QQHPFEMMWIKWZOWE6ZJU Edward

    that’s just a different kind of racism. Using God to hide behind it – your sad.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_GXXPV4QQHPFEMMWIKWZOWE6ZJU Edward

    Satn, satan, satan – grow up and take a reality check. Hell and heaven is what you make it. Don’t put off that responsibility on invisible magic people. Hiding behind a bunch of bulls**t religious mumbo jumbo. Speak english and don’t parrot a bunch of crap you here in your little store front rip-off church. you people who do that just show how you don’t think for yourself and take responsibilty.

  • Anonymous

    You would think that we, as a people treated as animals and then second class citizens, would have more respect for the civil rights of others. But instead we hide behind God and superstition, so that we may hold on to our outmoded bigotries.

    I am embarrassed, because I cannot explain to my gay friends why African Americans are so closed minded, and unwilling to give others the respect that we insist for ourselves.

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