Pope Benedict XVI has said that saving humanity from homosexual or transsexual behaviour is just as important as saving the rainforest from destruction.
He explained that defending God's creation is not limited to saving the environment, but also protecting man from self-destruction.
The pope was delivering his end-of-year address to senior Vatican staff.
His words, later released to the media, emphasised his total rejection of gender theory.
Pope Benedict XVI warned that gender theory blurs the distinction between male and female and could thus lead to the "self-destruction" of the human race.
Gender theory
Gender theory explores sexual orientation, the roles assigned by society to individuals according to their gender, and how people perceive their biological identity.
 |  If tropical forests deserve our protection, humankind... deserves it no less  Pope Benedict XVI |
Gay and transsexual groups, particularly in the United States, promote it as a key to understanding and tolerance, but the pope disagreed.
When the Roman Catholic Church defends God's Creation, "it does not only defend the earth, water and the air... but (it) also protects man from his own destruction," the pope said.
"If tropical forests deserve our protection, humankind... deserves it no less," the 81-year-old pontiff said, calling for "an ecology of the human being."
It is not "outmoded metaphysics" to urge respect for the "nature of the human being as man and woman," he told scores of prelates gathered in the Vatican's sumptuous Clementine Hall.
The Catholic Church opposes gay marriage. It teaches that while homosexuality is not sinful, homosexual acts are.
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Well, sanay na ako kay German Shepherd. Conservative talaga xa. I think he was against girls being servants of the altar
ReplyDelete1. ano ba meaning nung self-destruction of man? extinction ba? mukhang eh. mangyayari yun kung lahat naging homosexual tapos lahat gusto same sex marriage. kasi malaki na ang chance na baka wala nang magka-anak. ang-extreme nito.
ReplyDelete2. oo nga... lahat love ni God. Ayaw lang Niya yung mga masasamang actions natin. pero nahihirapan parin akong paghiwalayin ang homosexual at homosexual acts.
3. naiinis ba ako sa nabasa ko? OO. kasi bat ganun yung analogy? kung homosexual ako at nabasa ko yan, masasaktan ako. Mafi-feel ko na parang isa akong disease. kung gusto nilang mambago ng tao, wag naman sana nilang saktan ng ganyan.
(anggulo ng reply ko. anghirap kasi ng subject na ito eh... )
joan, when he say, self-destruction, he doesn't mean the literal destruction. He means moral destruction, because the Catholic Church (and German Shepherd himself) opposes homosexuality. As I've said above, Benedict XVI is sooooo conservative. I know that he stands against homosexuality, doing his papal duties, etc, but that comments were too harsh. If he believes that homosexuality is a sin, then why don't he help the homo people to usher themselves from homosexuality? His views are so conservative that some of them are medieval.
ReplyDeletei thought of the dog...
ReplyDeletewell, you can always express what you feel and what you want to talk about regarding "this topic". and I agree strongly at your #3.
ReplyDeleteyeah, despising people what he thinks are "filthy" won't change the situation. either he accepts homos as equal, or he does what I have quoted in you.
ReplyDeleteHahahaha... He was dubbed like that because (1) he is German (2) becuase he's like a guard dog pagdating sa fierceness. Personally, I'm more fussed in John Paul II than him.
ReplyDeleteyeah. I don't see that point brandishing these people away, I mean, like they're here, what are you supposed to do with them? Personally, I am against homosexuality but I really felt sick when I read this.
ReplyDeleteI'd gladly bring him to Baguio City...
ReplyDeletewhy Baguio?
ReplyDeleteever heard of askals na dinadala doon? para... you know...
ReplyDeletehahaha...I see...
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