POPE: Gay marriage is "Ideology of EVIL", abortion compares to Holocaust [View All]

So the next time the Pope becomes ill and people cluck that folks are 'pissing on his grave' etc., please do keep this headline in mind. For someone who gave shelter to Cardinal Law who knowingly aided and abetted pedophiles for a few decades, this is rich stuff.

I apologize in advance to my Catholic DU friends. This is not a fight that progressives picked with the Pope. People can disagree about many things but using such inflammatory language is beyond what I would hope a peaceful religious leader would publish. Gay bashers and abortion clinic murderers can now extrapolate that they are fighting EVILLLLLL.


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ROME (Reuters) - Homosexual marriages are part of "a new ideology of evil" that is insidiously threatening society, Pope John Paul says in a new book published Tuesday.

In "Memory and Identity," the Pope also calls abortion a "legal extermination" comparable to attempts to wipe out Jews and other groups in the 20th century....

In one section about the role of lawmakers, the Pope takes another swipe at gay marriages when he refers to "pressures" on the European Parliament to allow them. "It is legitimate and necessary to ask oneself if this is not perhaps part of a new ideology of evil, perhaps more insidious and hidden, which attempts to pit human rights against the family and against man," he writes....

"And this time we are talking about an extermination (abortion)which has been allowed by nothing less than democratically elected parliaments where one normally hears appeals for the civil progress of society and all humanity," he writes. In Germany, a leader of the country's Central Council of Jews called the comparison unacceptable.



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