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http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE8081RM20120109?irpc=932Gay marriage a threat to humanity's future: Pope
VATICAN CITY | Mon Jan 9, 2012 2:25pm EST
By Philip Pullella
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Benedict said Monday that gay marriage was one of several threats to the traditional family that undermined "the future of humanity itself."
The pope made some of his strongest comments against gay marriage in a new year address to the diplomatic corps accredited to the Vatican in which he touched on some economic and social issues facing the world today.
He told diplomats from nearly 180 countries that the education of children needed proper "settings" and that "pride of place goes to the family, based on the marriage of a man and a woman."
"This is not a simple social convention, but rather the fundamental cell of every society. Consequently, policies which undermine the family threaten human dignity and the future of humanity itself," he said.
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Hey, Your Popiness: If you're not playing the game you shouldn't be making the rules.
The Velveteen Ocelot
Jan 2012
#4
The Catholic Church needs to worry about it's pedophile priests and Pope who condoned the behavior
Pisces
Jan 2012
#8
He is an evil and petty little man going around masquerading as a holy man. n/t
totodeinhere
Jan 2012
#17
Quick......someone run and tell the other 7 billion people that overpopulation
cstanleytech
Jan 2012
#25
a bunch of men playing dress-up in skirts, vowing chastity who eschew marriage
lunatica
Jan 2012
#33
it wouldn't help priests--their preferred partners aren't old enough to marry regardless of gender
yurbud
Jan 2012
#47
Lesbians can't procreate naturally? I wonder how I gave birth to two biological children??????
yardwork
Jan 2012
#52
You don't understand. In the eyes of Benedict, a lesbian is "not natural." Hence anything they do
yellowcanine
Jan 2012
#56
If he was he would have been a she. Because without a sperm, the only way the egg could develop
yellowcanine
Jan 2012
#66
If it is really about procreation why does the Catholic Church bless marriages of old people?
yellowcanine
Jan 2012
#55
He's not against gay sex - he just thinks it should be between priests and teenagers
saras
Jan 2012
#51
I'm very sorry that that happened to you. I hope that you are in a better place now.
yardwork
Jan 2012
#77
It never goes away. I admire you for being a survivor. Thank you for sharing your story here.
yardwork
Jan 2012
#84
Sorry to burst your illusion Popey Boy, but the demise of humanity
Dont call me Shirley
Jan 2012
#71
That's pretty sad/funny considering the historical records of the popery/papacy.
Wistful Vista
Jan 2012
#73