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| Pope Benedict XVI’s strong stance against homosexuality makes him a dangerous threat to gay causes across the world, gay activists and religious experts said. (Photo by AP) |
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By: DYANA BAGBY COMMENTS
 
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that homosexual persons are not often generous and giving of themselves; but when they engage in homosexual activity they confirm within themselves a disordered sexual inclination which is essentially self-indulgent.”
“Letter to the Bishops of the Catholic Church on the Pastoral Care of Homosexual Persons” (October 1986)
“The Church teaches that respect for homosexual persons cannot lead in any way to approval of homosexual behavior or to legal recognition of homosexual unions. Legal recognition of homosexual unions or placing them on the same level as marriage would mean not only the approval of deviant behavior.”
“Considerations Regarding Proposals to Give Legal Recognition to Unions Between Homosexual Persons” (July 2003)
'Allowing children to be adopted by persons living in such unions would actually mean doing violence to these children, in the sense that their condition of dependency would be used to place them in an environment that is not conducive to their full human development."
“Considerations Regarding Proposals to Give Legal Recognitions to Unions Between Homosexual Persons” (July 2003)
“There are absolutely no grounds for considering homosexual unions to be in any way similar or even remotely analogous to God’s plan for marriage and family. Marriage is holy, while homosexual acts go against the natural moral law.”
“Considerations Regarding Proposals to Give Legal Recognition to Unions Between Homosexual Persons” (July 2003)
“The various forms of the dissolution of matrimony today, like free unions, trial marriages and going up to pseudo-matrimonies by people of the same sex, are rather expressions of an anarchic freedom that wrongly passes for true freedom of man.”
Speech by Pope Benedict XVI at the Basilica of St. John Lateran in Rome (June 6, 2005)
“[T]he church, while deeply respecting the people in question, cannot admit to the seminary and the sacred orders those who practice homosexuality, present deeply rooted homosexual tendencies or support so-called gay culture. Those people find themselves, in fact, i
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