Pope: God decides sex, not man

Pope Benedict XVI criticized homosexuals in his end of year address yesterday, saying that the confusion of the sexes is as great a threat to humanity as climate change. In other words sex change is as big a threat as climate change. The head of the Roman Catholic Church launched the attack against "the negation of natural laws" and caused many homosexuals in Europe to react with counter-accusations.

The fresh condemnation of homosexuals from the Vatican comes only days after the state rejected the United Nations proposals to de-penalize universal homosexuality, presented last December 18 by 66 countries.

The Pope was addressing the Roman Curia in his end of year message when he spoke out against sex or gender changes. The Roman Curia brings cardinals and prelates from around the world together.

"It is not man who decides. It is God who decides who is man and who is woman," the Pope warned, as he discredited the theory that some people are born with the genitalia of one sex but the mentality of the other.

"The order of creation is being questioned by the so-called 'gender'," the Pope lamented, as he made reference to the 70s when the question of sexual equality first arose, and even the right to be transsexual. "On this topic one must have faith in the Creator and listen to the language of creation, the disdain of which will lead to humanity's self-destruction," he said.

"If the tropical jungles deserve out protection, man ... deserves it much more," he said. The Pope defended the "ecology of man" and traditional marriage, rejecting any type of other union, including gay marriages.






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- Photo of Pope Benedict XVI World Youth Day Sydney 2008 Visit by sam_herd