Pope Likens Saving Gays To Saving The Rainforest

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Benedict said on Monday that saving humanity from homosexual or transsexual behavior 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.

Read the whole story here.

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[bobo5]

This was aimed at gay Brazilian lumberjacks who lurk in Sao Paulo and sway impressionable young Catholic men in puberty away from the Priesthood.

[Carpenter001]

I propose that the philosophy of the "Pope" in this case, is that we could eventually remake our selves in to a "Man acceptable to God through our own evolutionary process. Perhaps a genetically improved man, or a "hybrid man", could be considered... "ecologically acceptable to God?". I would hypothesize that The pope and his contacts are planning to proliferate this idea. Also , the unification of all religion and the "dispensing with" all of the sick and needy that the Lord came to save.
I would asked; Dose the "Church save Man " Or Dose Jesus save the Church? I was always under the impression that Jesus saves us, the church, in our sins, and through repentance, not "ecology".
watch out, this is what some of us call priming the pump. But, For all of us sinners, Jesus is enough to save. and it is out of love for him that we are changed from our sinful behavior.. Not ecology.

[BobSF94117]

Catholicism finds itself in -- you'll have to pardon me -- a devil of a pickle. So much of its authority is tied up in "Natural Law". The problem, though, is that Natural Law is based on flawed observations of nature. When his Popitude pontificates (hehe) about the role of men and the role of women, let alone his pronouncements about gay people, his theories are based on observations made over a thousand years ago. Philosophers, being human, saw what they expected to see. They also only saw what was around them in Southern and Central Europe.

Would Catholic theology be a lot more tolerant if Aquinas had witnessed couples of male Emperor penguins, mated for life, caring for the abandoned eggs of hetero penguins?

I would hope so (but I tend to think people operate with the best of intentions, so I'm probably wrong).

[Oonagh]

Oh..... pedophilia is the problem not being gay..... save the children.....

[BSERIUS]

Basically 8 pages of hatespeech from yokels who did not read the article

[JohnFromCensornati]

From said article:

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

What is it that we misunderstood about the N@zi pope's h@te speech?

[redkim]

Below is the fuller story, without the ridiculously sensationalist headline provided by Huffpo:



Pontiff Calls for "Ecology of Man"


Warns Against New Theories of "Gender"



VATICAN CITY, DEC. 22, 2008 (Zenit.org).- While protecting nature is an essential mission of the Church, it's no more important than protecting the nature of the person, says Benedict XVI.

The Pope spoke today of what he termed an "ecology of man" during his traditional exchange of Christmas greetings with prelates and members of the Roman Curia.

"Given that faith in the Creator is an essential element of the Christian creed, the Church can not and should not limit itself to transmitting to the faithful only the message of salvation," he affirmed. "It also has a responsibility with creation, and it has to fulfill this responsibility in public."

The Pontiff added that while the Church needs to "defend the earth, water, air, as gifts of the creation that belongs to all of us [... ], it must also protect the human being from his own destruction."

"It is necessary that there be something such as an ecology of man, understood in the proper manner," he said.

This human ecology, he affirmed, is based on respecting the nature of the person, and the two genders of masculine and feminine.

Complete story here

http://www.zenit.org/article-24652?l=english

[BobSF94117]

I loved the Papal "Clarification" (all things Papal get Capitalized).

Roughly: I wasn't dumping on gays and trannies!! I was dumping on women who don't know their place!!!!

[BobSF94117]

Do you really think that presenting MORE of what he said provides a defense?

His nattering on about Nature while obstinately ignoring the reality present in nature is, well, bizarre.

And that's being kind.

[redkim]

Do you honestly believe that the Pope doesn't keep up with advances in the sciences regarding biology, etc.

Come on.

[NoSillyName]

Oh, yeah. 'Moes are taking over the world!!! There will be no more babies!!! Humankind will cease to exist!!! God help us!!!

[DCato]

So, on one side, he believes in biological diversity and, on the other, he doesn't believe in, well, biological diversity.
It must be nice to be able to believe everything at the same time.

[imusintheevening]

The Pope's church is a scam.

[JohnFromCensornati]

Ponzi or pyramid?

[simmary]

Why does the Pope comment aloud on a topic where he does not identify his sources of information?

[Oonagh]

A long line of Popes...... as I typed it first came out Poops....

[scribe3s]

The destruction of the rain forest, huh? Here we go with another nut in office: we get rid of GWBush and now we have to worry about some guy with a funny hat making absurd references to the Earth's ecological balance and somehow (much like Hitler and the Jews) liking it to homosexual and transsexual behavior.

I'm a heterosexual married guy who works for an AIDS hospice. Herr Benedict teaches what should have died in 1945; his references along with it. If we can't see each other as people, regardless of color, religion, (party affiliation is a new one this year), nationality, etc....., we're no better than the jack-boots wearin' religious fanatics who just refuse to accept everyone. History has shown us: Popes support those in power, be it the Nazis, the Usatasa, or the revolutionaries. Where the father's and brother's have fallen, the pope remains intact: evil in a bad hat..........................................and let's not talk about the fact they don't marry; who do you think THEY fantasize about.........................women, rarely, I'm sure!

[redkim]

You wrote:

The destruction of the rain forest, huh? Here we go with another nut in office: we get rid of GWBush and now we have to worry about some guy with a funny hat making absurd references to the Earth's ecological balance and somehow (much like Hitler and the Jews) liking it to homosexual and transsexual behavior.

My response:

Except that he's NOT liking it to homosexual behavior. Please read the link to the article I provided.

[weatherwaxx]

Y'know what? I'm not Catholic and I don't give a d@mn what this whited sepulchre says.

[grata2ude]

Oh Gees....another "religion" heard from.

[wandering girl]

"saving them from themselves" - wasn't that the impetus of the Spanish Inquisition?

look how well that turned out, Benedict.

[weatherwaxx]

His previous job title was "Grand Inquisitor." No joke.

[Usman]

Pope Gone Wild!

[LITU]

I don't think the Pope read the book. Man saving man is contrary to HIS belief system. Salvation doesn't come from the Vatican. Sounds like he's out of the loop.

Used to be in the old days, say the Dark Ages, the Catholic Church removed the opposition publically and with great humiliation. Nowadays they do it more surreptitiously.

[redkim]

Man saving man is contrary to Catholicism? Not really. Humanity has always been an agent of saving since the beginning. Ultimately, the savior of mankind IS Christ; but this work is done through others.

[LITU]

You are so incredibly wrong!

[wandering girl]

and only done through *personal witness and testimony,* not coercive humiliation. the focus of Christianity is a *personal* relationship with Christ - and I have yet to see a relationship that can exist by proxy.