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Hallelujah! Spanish Leader Snubs Pope

Posted on Jul 10, 2006

More than a million worshipers in Spain showed up to hear the pope deliver a homily in which he made a veiled attack on Spain’s liberal legal attitude toward gay marriage and divorce. Conspicuously not in attendance: the Spanish prime minister. It’s apparently the first time in history that a Spanish leader has missed such an address.
Que bueno. Memo to Pope Benedict XVI: Keep on dressing up hate speech as The Good News and you’ll continue to be marginalized by more-enlightened world leaders.

Telegraph:

More than a million worshippers congregated at the city’s futuristic arts and science park, where the Pope gave a homily praising the traditional family founded on the “indissoluble marriage between a man and a woman”.

In a veiled attack on the liberal laws introduced by Mr Zapatero’s socialist government since it came to power two years ago, the pontiff said: “In contemporary culture, we often see an excessive exaltation of the freedom of the individual.”

Mr Zapatero’s government has been at loggerheads with the Roman Catholic Church over a domestic programme of radical legislation, which includes giving marriage and adoption rights to homosexuals and relaxing divorce laws.

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By yours truly, July 11, 2006 at 4:14 pm #
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Exactly what should happen whenever the irrisistable force of reason and progress meets the intransigence of superstition and antiquity, Adelante, companeros

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By The Passive Cow, July 11, 2006 at 2:03 pm #
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Que bueno. Memo to anonymous author: Keep on portraying ETERNAL TRUTH as “hate speech” and you may find yourself marginalized by THE Enlightened One.

Hate speech? really now…look in the mirror.

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By TomChicago, July 11, 2006 at 7:03 am #
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Rather than attempting to pander to the “religious” right, perhaps it is not too early for Democrats to initiate a strategy that condemns all the faith-based madness that polarizes and paralyses this planet. The Sunnis hate the Shiites; the Serbs the Croats; the Muslims the Hindus…Certainly there is a constituency out here that is sick and tired of all that crap—a constituency that is not merely waiting like passive cows for the so-called Rapture, a vision of hell on earth, and seeks to ennoble the days of our lives right now.

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