Posted on 12/29/2008 4:42:02 PM PST by Publius804
“A gay-bashing tirade?”
What Pope Benedict really told the Roman Curia on Dec. 22
Both mainstream and homosexual media around the world launched into a full-court and often vicious attack on Pope Benedict XVI following his Dec. 22 Christmas address to the Roman Curia. The furor began after the Holy Father said that protecting humankind from self-destruction was as important to Catholics as protecting the tropical rainforests. Although the pope nowhere used the word “homosexuality” in his discourse, homosexuals and others seized on a portion of his description of the Catholic understanding of the created natural order in which he described the “sacrament of creation” as “matrimony - which is the lifelong bond between a man and a woman.”
Various media called Benedict XVI’s address to the Curia a “gay-bashing tirade,” a “homophobic attack,” an “anti-gay message,” and a “toxic Christmas message.” In the interest of clarity and justice, California Catholic Daily has excerpted the portion of the Holy Father’s speech that prompted the widespread outrage (it was only a brief part of an address that covered many other topics). We leave it to our readers to decide whether there was any legitimate justification for the attacks on Pope Benedict XVI.
Relevant excerpt from Pope Benedict XVI’s Dec. 22 address to the Roman Curia:
“First of all, there is the affirmation that comes to us from the start of the story of Creation, which tells of the Creator Spirit that moved over the waters, created the world and continuously renews it.
(Excerpt) Read more at calcatholic.com ...
More christophobia from the “gay pride” sodomites and their sympathizers.
A big part of the pathology of homosexuality is its insistence that everything is about itself.
Pope Benedict XVI is a major thinker, perhaps along the lines of Albert Magnamus or someone.
I think part of the vitriol is because the queer brigades’ agenda has been voted down time and time again when they tried to imitate the authentic Civil Rights movement, and is failing again now that they are trying to imitate the illegal immigrant “protests”. In their frustration, they need someone to blame, and their self-perpetuating delusions won’t allow them to consider that the failure is due to their own folly, so they attack every leftist’s favorite scapegoat, the Christians.
Yah, maybe the sodomists’ screaming rants will scare the Pope into recanting what the Catholic Church stands for, d’ya think?
I am sick to death of the term “Gay-bashing,”
Homsexuals are the, “Bashers.”
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