In his annual end of year address, Pope Benedict XVI stated that the “gay threat” is as large a threat to the world as the destruction of the rainforest. Yes, according to the leader of the Roman Catholic church, saving the environment is just as important as saving humanity from the gays, or as he puts it “self destruction” of the human race. Pope Benedict told head leaders of the church, “If tropical forests deserve our protection, humankind… deserves it no less.” The Pope continued that humanity needs “an ecology of the human being.”
This end of year speech is the Pope’s way of wishing the world a merry Christmas, whilst announcing issues he finds most vital of the time. Although the Catholic church does not condemn homosexuals, they do condemn homosexual acts and same sex marriage. The gay community breaks from traditional ideas of man and woman, and this is what Pope Benedict fears will break “God’s creation” and destroy mankind.
Pope Benedict seems to be blind to women’s rights and equality, as there has been a strong correlation between women’s equal rights to opportunity in education and the workforce with lower birth rates in the West. Apparently, this is no threat to the life of humanity. However, for the Pope to go after the “gay threat,” as he calls it, at a time when same sex marriage gains popularity, shows that the Catholic Church is deathly afraid of equality amongst all people.
In a time when the Catholic Church is finding less and less support in a more secular Europe, and finding traditionally Catholic nations legalizing same sex marriage (ie Spain), the Pope is trying to appeal to its core members in an effort to get a strong reaction. Okay, Hitler! You’ve got your scapegoat!
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