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Ärende: Re: Pope signals inter-faith alliance against gay marriage
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> The Pontiff has issued a new decree that makes perfect sense. They
> will partner with other religions in fighting the homos marriage
> farce. .... b&c
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> Pope Benedict XVI waves as he leaves after leading his Wednesday
> general audience in Paul VI's Hall at the Vatican December 19, 2012.
> REUTERS/Giampiero Sposito ~ [CLICK TO ENLARGE]
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> By Philip Pullella
>
> VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Benedict on Friday signaled the Vatican
> was ready to forge alliances with other religions against gay
> marriage, saying the family was threatened "to its foundations" by
> attempts to change its "true structure".
>
> The pope's latest denunciation of gay marriage came in a Christmas
> address to Vatican officials in which he blended religion, philosophy,
> anthropology and sociology to illustrate the position of the Roman
> Catholic Church.
>
> The Vatican has gone on the offensive in response to gains for gay
> marriage in the United States and Europe, using every possible
> opportunity to denounce it through papal speeches or editorials in its
> newspaper or on its radio station.
>
> Throwing the full weight of his office behind a study by France's
> chief rabbi on the effects the legalization of gay marriage would have
> on children and society, he said:
>
> "There is no denying the crisis that threatens it (the family) to its
> foundations - especially in the Western world."
>
> The family had to be protected because it was "the authentic setting
> in which to hand on the blueprint of human existence", he added.
>
> Speaking in the frescoed Clementine Hall of the Vatican's Apostolic
> Palace, the 85-year-old pope said the family was being threatened by
> "a false understanding of freedom" and a repudiation of life-long
> commitment in heterosexual marriage.
>
> "When such commitment is repudiated, the key figures of human
> existence likewise vanish: father, mother, child - essential elements
> of the experience of being human are lost," the leader of the world's
> 1.2 billion Catholics said.
>
> In the speech, one of the most important the pope gives every year, he
> said people could not "dispute the idea that they have a nature, given
> by their bodily identity, that serves as a defining element of the
> human being".
>
> The "pre-ordained duality of man and woman" had to be respected, he
> said, if families and children were not to lose their place and
> dignity.
>
> People could not become what he called "abstract human beings"
> choosing for themselves what their nature would be, added.
>
> RELIGIOUS ALLIANCE
>
> In some countries, the Catholic Church has already joined forces with
> Jews, Muslims and members of other religions to oppose the
> legalization of gay marriage, in some cases presenting arguments based
> on legal, social and anthropological analyses rather than religious
> teachings.
>
> Significantly, the pope specifically praised as "profoundly moving" a
> study by Gilles Bernheim, France's chief rabbi, which has become the
> subject of heated debate in that country.
>
> Bernheim, also a philosopher, argues that homosexual rights groups
> "will use gay marriage as a Trojan Horse" in a wider campaign to "deny
> sexual identity and erase sexual differences" and "undermine the
> heterosexual fundamentals of our society".
>
> His study, "Gay Marriage, Parenthood and Adoption: What We Often
> Forget To Say", argues that plans to legalize gay marriage are being
> made for "the exclusive profit of a tiny minority" and are often
> supported because of political correctness.
>
> In his own speech on Friday, the pope repeated some of the concepts in
> the Bernheim study, including an assertion that children raised by gay
> couples would be more "objects" than individuals.


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