The Pope on HBT: "a threat to the future of mankind"

[gagged_Louise]

Actually I have a lot of respect for Roman Catholics, I know they can often be both warm, honest and intellectually sophisticated people, and as a group they're not near the lumped together image of dry, sour and fanatic 19th century Christians who have said goodbye to reason or understanding. That's why it makes me both sorry, outraged and angry when Pope Benedict targets any kind of homosexual/transgender practices (bisexuality isn't mentioned but no doubt included) in his christmas message and punches home the traditional position that all non-straight sexual practices are unwanted, and adds that they pose a major threat to the human race - and then he still professes that the Church loves homosexuals if only they'd abstain from gay/lesbian sex and recognize their error and sin. *deep sigh* The twist about homosexuality actually threatening mankind - because people would no longer be producing kids? or by way of the breakdown of the traditional family? - is a new twist, that kind of neo-con slag I have never heard from a pope before.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worl...says-Pope.html

Sex is essentially for procreation, and homosexuality or "blurring of the borders between male and female" is a threat to the cultural and demographic future of mankind. This is unusually glib rhetoric even for a major religious leader. The comparison with the destruction of the rainforests, which is a real danger demanding strong political and social action, is quite clueless, and there is zero attempt to question your own positions in the past. I mean, after a number of paedohile scandals among the priesthood one might start to question if celibate priests and an insistence on straight sex only is always the right way. None of this here though, just down into the trench.