Pope criticizes

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Pope Benedict said Monday that saving humanity from homosexual or transsexual behaviour was just as important as saving the rainforest from destruction.

The Church "should also protect man from the destruction of himself. A sort of ecology of man is needed," the pontiff said in a holiday address to the Curia, the Vatican's central administration.

"The tropical forests do deserve our protection. But man, as a creature, does not deserve any less."

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."

The pope said humanity needed to "listen to the language of creation" to understand the intended roles of man and woman. He compared behavior beyond traditional heterosexual relations as "a destruction of God's work."
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He also defended the Church's right to "speak of human nature as man and woman, and ask that this order of creation be respected."

-Your thoughts?

[Bob]

He is an idiot. As all Christians are. Uncle Fester has spoken.
I don't believe in god. I believe in me.

[Summer]

Since I truly believe in reincarnation, I think that many of us DO incarnate as homo-sexuals at least once throughout our lives to learn. Even dolphin's have homo-sexual behaviors the scientists have found. So it IS found in nature even in the animal kingdom. That is one of the things that really bothers me about the Christian religion. It has SO many rules about stupid things that people should be able to make up their own minds about, as we are all here to learn different things. No 2 lives will ever be the same, and that is the way God/Goddess wants it to be.