Pope says Gay marriage is a threat to creation

[LadyBlaBlah]

This guy is such a homophobic idiot.

I notice he has still had nothing to say about the endemic paedophilia in the Catholic church.

uk.news.yahoo.com/22/20100111/tts-uk-pope-ca02f96.html

I was about to post a comment about his blase attitude to the rape of young children but see you beat me to it.

Grrr! He makes me go all shouty.
2 consenting adults having sex = wrong
1 male priest raping a child = perfectly ok and let's cover it all up and not make a fuss.
Total fecking idiot!

it's so depressing how the world seems to be going backwards - all on the belief of a giant invisible being

I googled quickly and found that he has said quite a bit about child abuse:

Here he is apologising

here he is again

and again

god religion is shit

a giant invisible non-existent being. IMVHO.

I recently asked a Catholic priest his opinion on the God Delusion book by Richard Dawkins, and he got very aggressive and started shaking me (yes physically and the only excuse is that it was at a wedding and he had had a few beers) about how I could mention such an insulting book.

Goes without saying that there was no reasonable discussion about it......just a torrent of abuse.

exacklty what i was goiung to post madam. idiot.

People with these views always seem to be inferring that gay marriage is the thin end of the wedge that will turn us all gay and we won't any of us have children and then the human race will die out and then where will we be eh? eh? eh?

Barking.

I don;t understand why someone who's job is to reinforce the omnipotence of God seesm to imply that his existence would be so damaged by gay people (who presumably were created by God in the first place).

If there is a God I'm sure he'll struggle on in peaceable co-existance with gay people

The pope says a lot of things.

I don't listen to any of them.

Yep, I don't think 10% of the population (and of course far less than that since lots of gay people have children) not procreating will stop the human race buggering (pun not intended) up the planet in a myriad of different, foolish, short-sighted ways.

Certainly far sooner than homosexuality will have any effect on creation.

Actually, the thing I find depressing is not so much that he says these stupid things, but that millions of people around the world will blindly accept that he is right.

So that's all right then, abraid1. Have any clergy actually been punished for the abuse and for the cover up?

silly Pope.
Glad I am not a Catholic.
My friend who is a gay Catholic says no-one she knows takes any notice of him, though.

it's not just the pope though, on that religious sunday morning show they were 'debating' about homosexuality and one woman vicar type thing thought they could be 'turned' through prayer . it's alot of cock.

I no longer regard my self as catholic because of this kind of shit.

You know, I get [warning, controversy alert] really pissed off with gay Catholics. It's like being a black member of the BNP - what are they thinking of!

So the leader of a religion with a distinctly morally dubious history (both him and the religion) says something offensive, closed-minded and stupid. Again.

This is news? The man's like Prince Phillip in a frock and silly hat. He obviously can't not say stupid and offensive things.

Treat to creation??.... Im a lesbian and currently CREATING RATHER THAT THREATENING as im pregnant.....

Im happy to hear peoples views, if they actually have some intelligent argument/substance to what they are saying.... This is just a statement!

And you can't just say, as a Catholic"Oh, take no notice of the Pope" You're not actually a Catholic if you do that - you're something else. A very High Anglican, perhaps?

It's hardly news, is it? The Catholic teaching about homosexuality hasn't changed.

harmoine, I am sure you are a treat to creation!!!

'Have any clergy actually been punished for the abuse and for the cover up? '

Yes. If you google 'mailed priests for sex abuse UK' you'll see quite a number--thank God. The police and CPS don't not prosecute because someone's a priest.

And if any are uncovered in the UK now, the congregation are under a strict obligation to go either to the child protection officer attached to the parish (who is lay and trained in child protection by bodies appointed post Nolan) or directly to the police.

I put out the pens at a Sunday school and had to leave because I was constantly asked to attend child protection courses which I couldn't make because of work and family obligations. They are (rightly) paranoid now.