AMAZING innit,? before the arrival of the new ed, there would have been some real firey dicussion here,
But this seems to have fallen flat, because, I suspect, That people are afraid to post their thoughts,
This is a hard one as I'm not homophobic but I do understand his point. I judge people as they come and not on their race, creed or sexual orientation. You cannot escape the fact....Man and Woman = babies. Man and Man or Woman and woman = no babies.
On June 28, 1935, the Ministry of Justice revised Paragraph 175. The revisions provided a legal basis for extending Nazi persecution of homosexuals. Ministry officials expanded the category of "criminally indecent activities between men" to include any act that could be construed as homosexual. The courts later decided that even intent or thought sufficed. On October 26, 1936, Himmler formed within the Security Police the Reich Central Office for Combating Abortion and Homosexuality.
Youre right ethel.
The difference between the nazis and the current popes ideas are massive.
Womna and woman can equal babies iether with the help of an active participating man or thru ivf
As for the church.
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".
So you can see theyre streets apart from the nazis , though the pope was a hitler youth member.
Surely that cant have any beariing on his opinions.
In 1986 Ratzinger issued a letter to the Catholic Bishops in which he wrote that homosexuality was a �tendency� towards an �intrinsic moral evil�. A few years later, in 1992, he rejected the notion of human rights for gays, stressing that their civil liberties could be �legitimately limited�. He followed up by remarking that �neither the church nor society should be surprised� if �irrational and violent reactions increase� when gays demand civil rights. Not a man to mince his words, Ratzinger urgently set to work to ferret out gay-sensitive clergy.
You gotta love the pope meh?
I hear that gary glitter may be in the running for next pope.