The Vatican Opposes Legalised Homosexuality

Tor Billgren and other prominent gay bloggers around the world appear shocked by the religious hatred of gay people expressed by the Catholic Church in recent days. And they are right; the Vatican’s opposition to a UN resolution banning imprisonment, execution, and corporal punishment on grounds of homosexuality is grotesque. But it should not surprise anyone that the Vatican lobbies so hard to keep violence against gay people legal. After all, the current pope was the man who described gay people as “intrinsically disordered”. In some backward way, the Pope probably thinks he is helping us by denying us human rights. In 2004, the Pope—then Cardinal Ratzinger—expressed his thoughts on gay people and the law in an interview:

Q: Homosexuality is a topic that regards love between two people and not just mere sexuality. What can the Church do to understand this phenomenon?

Cardinal Ratzinger: Let me say two things. Above all, we must have great respect for these people who also suffer and who want to find their own way of correct living. On the other hand, to create a legal form of a kind of homosexual marriage, in reality, does not help these people.

In other words: Gay people need to be discriminated against. It is for our own good—to prevent us from getting the deluded idea that we are equal to others. We are not, because, as Ratzinger says later in the interview, we are first and foremost “destructive to the family and society”. The society better rid itself of such evil creatures.

Note at 21:19: Misspellings fixed.