from: Ouko joachim omolo
The News Dispatch with Omolo Beste in images
THURSDAY, JANUARY 10, 2013
A tongue-in-cheek advertisement depicting Pope Benedict XVI blessing the marriage of two gay men in New Zealand is an insult, not only to the Pope but the entire Roman Catholic faithful and Christians who oppose same sex marriage. Click here to view the advert- New Zealand Gay Wedding Ad ‘Featuring’ Pope Benedict XVI Sparks Controversy.
Gay communities have always been against the Pope for his stand against same-sex marriage. The point here is that entering into same- sex marriage is against nature in such a fundamental way that it could spell the end of humankind.
Pope Benedict XVI cited Rabbi Bernheim in a Christmas address opposing gay marriage, saying that it was wrong for people “to deny their nature and decide it is not something previously given to them, but that they make themselves.”
The Pope drew a parallel between those who deplore “the manipulation of nature” where “our environment is concerned,” but sanction it as “man’s fundamental choice where he himself is concerned.”
The chief rabbi of France, Gilles Bernheim, has cautioned about toying with the idea that gender has become “a social role that we choose for ourselves,” instead of “a given element of nature that man has to accept,” a move that has been fully supported by religious leaders in France who have become deeply involved, arguing that the government should be cautious before redefining the institution of marriage and legal “parenthood.”
The intervention of religious leaders in opposition, including Muslims, has caused something of an uproar, especially among supporters of the Socialist government. The minister in charge of education, Vincent Peillon, has even warned parochial schools against having debates in classrooms about the merits of gay marriage and adoption, citing a threat to French secularism, bringing charges of Catholic-bashing.
“To make a child, you need a man and a woman,” Ms. Barjot was quoted to have said. For a gay couple to become the legal parents of a child “is totally contrary to reality,” she said. “The problem is not homosexuality, but human filiation,” she argues — a child’s need to have legal affiliation and access to its biological parents.
In his annual “state of the Church” address at the Vatican the pope said gay marriage denies God and devalues human dignity. Speaking to the Curia, the bureaucrats who run the global church of 1.2 billion Catholics, the pope said opposition to gay marriage is a way of defending humanity: “Whoever defends God is defending man.”
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