Pope Benedict's Christmas message, which said that saving humanity from homosexuality was at least the equal of saving the world from the effects of climate change, was shameful and a throw-back to attitudes at least 100 years out of date.
Comments of this sort from the head of the world's biggest Christian faith can do nothing but stir up hatred and discord when the secular forces in the western world have sought to overcome these traditional attitudes which blighted our society for too long.
Does the Pope think a person chooses his or her sexuality? Surely that is something as ordained by God (if He exists) as one's ability to be a Shakespeare or an Einstein?
It is one thing to suggest what membership of a particular Christian church believe...that is the Pope's right as head of that church and the right of others to either endorse that view or disagree with it, but the Pope went much further than that. He suggested that the human race was in peril from homosexuals..and that is akin to witch-hunting - at which the Catholic Church has proved notoriously enthusiastic over the centuries.
Anyone would think homosexuality was a new 'fad' rather than an orientation which has existed since human beings existed and it is so depressingly mediaeval that the Pope should use his Christmas message - supposedly bringing peace and love to ALL mankind - to create division and the possibility of encouraging 'gay-bashing' as a result.
It is not merely depressing but grossly hypocritical coming from a church which not only opposes the genuine love between two people of the same sex, but is so keen to avoid tarnishing the reputation of its clergy that when homosexual abuse of young children has been committed by the Church's own representatives, it has gone to great lengths to cover it up and protect the guilty regardless of the misery inflicted on those unfortunate children.
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