my gaydar is up and it is pointing right at his holiness the clown in a dress - the Nazi who is totally responsible for convincing the last pope to continue hiding the sex scandals for years and trying to keep them out of court so the cardinals wouldn’t lose their precious palace and endless riches - looking toward the Vatican gives one the feeling of complete despair knowing how they stole the riches of every country to gain such wealth - they should not have worked so hard - they could have gone to Wall Street and done a terrible job - they would have been rewarded billions and billions of tax payer money.

BTW -I lived in the very midst of the sex scandal and I know what happened to the victims - the horrible lives many of them led - the affliction of drug and alcohol - the suicides - the church has no shame - they helped those sick perverts destroy one small child’s life after another - it is enough to make you vomit

After the clergy got caught literally with it’s pants down in the closet with the altar boys a panic set in. This panic was accelerated when the jury awards started depleting the church treasuries (all they REALLY care about). Right away it was decided that their troubles were the fault of homosexuals in the world. The doddering old John-Paul croaked so the cardinals set their minds to selecting a real hard ass who would take the ball of scapegoating and run with it. They were fortunate enough to find a German, ex-proud, Hitlerjungen by the name of Joseph Alois Ratzinger. They burnt paper up the chimney and called him Pope Benedict XVI. Almost immediately he commenced a purge of gay priests, suspected or merely accused gay priests and anyone else that might cost them money down the road. He produced pronouncements stating that they were in a big PR mess because of gay people who somehow slipped past the radar into the church. No mention of the ridiculous policy of clerical celibacy, their medieval attitude toward sex education and empowering priests to assert unquestioned authority over the people creating an attitude of unaccountability for whatever some priest might dream up to do to some powerless communicant. No mention that girls and women were also abused over the years.

So this week Pope Neonazi thought that the “joyous Xmas time” was good enough for him to pronounce gay people on a par with environmental degradation and bio-terrorism. This man-made-god-man must know that he is authorizing witch-hunts and gay-bashings and suicides. I suspect that since he MUST know this, that HAS to be his intent in making this proclamation. His pronouncements, for those who are not familiar or aware, are mandatorily read from every pulpit in the world within a specified range of time after they are issued. I plan to monitor the fallout from this and track a body-count of incidents resulting from the soft-headed adherents acting on this license to hunt and destroy gays. This might be hard to track but I personally would consider ANY incident that occurs after this is announced to be laid at HIS door.

A celibate in a dress who defended child abusers and moved them around to molest other kids and was a member of the nazi youth - give me a break - do these people live in a complete world of denial or what!

Yes, Warren and the Pope are “knuckle draggers” as Tony Wilcher calls them. But, the scary part about the entire matter, is not that “knuckle draggers” think that gay marriage is unnatural, but, that, people that are often thought of as “progressive” feel that way. Or, at the very least, find it entirely acceptable that others do.

We expect it from the Pope. We expect it from neo-con preachers like Warren. It should still come as a surprise that Peop 8 can pass in CALIFORNIA(!) , and, that a person who agrees with it will speak at a Democratioc anaugeration.

First oh “Grande Poopa”, who the frig were Cain and Able shtupping if not each other?

Why is this criminal still holding court for the world and on Truthdig? This man was central in the pedophile coverup in the RCC. Who cares if homosexuality is “unnatural”? And who the hell asked this douche-nozel for his uneducated opinion? The only sexual determination to be made for this man is who gets first dibs on his Pontifical orifice in hell. If only there were a hell.

The Holy See later apologized (much later), calling the church’s attitude toward Galileo a tragic mistake.
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Give ‘em another 375 years, and the Holy See will be saying the same thing about homosexuality!

OHhhhhh?...WHAT is playing “poke butt” with an unwilling alter boy?Hide the SAUSAGE???????The pope is in DENIAL….

“nature of the human being as man and woman”

Who was he talking about Michael Jackson? Oh, no that was ADVANCED metaphysics they used to put a woman’s head on HIM.

Actually, I never really knew what that meant until this strange person tried to seduce me one time. I couldn’t figure out which it was. After looking it over for awhile I concluded it was neither. It was Horny as a Catholic Schoolgirl though, but I couldn’t figure out what to do except go back to the bar!

This asshole can go to hell.  And if there is one, no doubt he will.

It seems to me that homophobia is somehow connected to patriarchy. The Pope like Rick Warren is a knuckle-dragging patriarch. This comes of reading the Old Testament too much. Those were the days when real men had 999 wives. We are slowly making progress.

Re: Kdelphi

I’ll second that.  Remember… nuns are the brides of Christ…. so it appears, marrying dead people (if the historical Christ actually existed, at all) and polygamy ARE acceptable to the pope.  Right…?

Of course, I can’t tell you how many times I saw “father what’s his name” swaggering back from the nunnery in the early morning hours when I lived across the street from my pious neighbors….

I at least give him credit that he was chasing the nuns instead of the children in the congregation, seemed to be having a mighty fine time of it too.

Yeah? Well, the Cathiolic Church speaking out against ANY kind of sexuality seems more than a bit hypocritical, until those lawsuits againast the pedophile priests are paid off…log out of thine own eye..

What makes the Pope think he’s an expert on the natural world? His whole lot in life is to look after the supernatural, isn’t it?

When it comes to studying nature, I’ll lean on science, thanks.

When I need an expert on things that don’t actually exist in nature… well, I’ll probably still lean on science.

What a good Nazi you are, Mr. Ratslinger.

Gays:  Popes Are Unnatural
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Now he tells us!

If he’d spoken up a little sooner, he’d be the one giving the invocation at the inauguration ceremony!

What’s unnatural is believing in superstitious nonsense that dictates one’s behavior and worldview.  The Pope is mammal like the rest of us.