Pope greeted by kissing gays
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Published: Nov. 7, 2010 at 10:27 AM
BARCELONA, Spain, Nov. 7 (UPI) – Pope Benedict XVI, in Spain for the second time, was greeted by 200 gay couples who kissed to protest the Catholic Church's rejection of same-sex marriage.
Following the pope's consecration of the Sagrada Familia church in Barcelona Sunday, the gay couples went outside and kissed in protest of church policies, Radio France Internationale reported. More than 6,000 people attended the consecration.
About 20,000 people celebrated same-sex marriages in the past five years in Spain, where it is easier to get an abortion and end a marriage.
The pope also spoke out against abortion.
"For this reason the church resists every form of denial of human life and gives its support to everything that would promote the natural order in the sphere of the institution of the family," Benedict said.
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WHen the UK banned discrimination against gays in service related issue {ie; hotels, adoption, etc, etc} the government gave them 7 years {a 5 year automatic extention and a 2 year automatic extention} to comply with the law.
The catholic church got tax money to fund their adoption agency. They wanted a total exemption allowing them to continue discriminating against gays for eternity, while using tax money. The gov gave them the 7 extra years, but in the end, the catholics decided leave the adoption business completely instead of being non bigoted.
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Cool as the demonstration was, I doubt that Benedict even noticed.
He lives in his own little world, behind that bulletproof glass and within the confines of his tightly closed mind.
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Cool as the demonstration was, I doubt that Benedict even noticed.
He lives in his own little world, behind that bulletproof glass and within the confines of his tightly closed mind.
:true:
Although true, sadly in this world, everyone is entitled to their own opinion. That being said however, that doesn't mean that everyone has to agree with the opinion of others.
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Actually, I think he probably did notice. Now Gays are a tiny minority compared to other groups, but the Church does respond over time. Women are lectors, girls are altar servers (altarboys) and not much is said. They wouldn't dare, in USA anyhow. The donations would drop off too much and there would be too much protest.
