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absolutely terrible so bad
david what were you thinking
if they are is any doubt in your mind remaining that homophobic bigotry is the
official institutional policy of the roman catholic church that has now been
eliminated u_s_ bishops persecution of algae bt people has been blessed
by pope benedict the what what what number is in the sixty benedict the
sixteen th
he went on according to national public radio and the washington post
boat benedict the sixteen th
dove smack dab into the middle of the battle over marriage equality today and
rest delivered at the vatican to a delegation of visiting bishops from the
u_s_
and he forcefully denounced the quote powerful push
through grants same-sex couples the freedom to marry in the u_s_ he's eighty
four years old he acknowledged his cup comments might sound anachronistic
or calendar of cultural
particularly to young people benito bishops not to back down in the face of
powerful political uncles cultural currents seeking to alter the legal
definition of manage of marriage he said a weakened appreciation for traditional
marriage has led to grave social problems bearing an immense human and
economic cost of course he didn't say what the cost was
because it's an outright lied and there is no cost for a
so it you know i'd know most people who consider themselves part of the world
what is it about a billion catholics is that what it is roughly uh... rusher
sounds about right by think it is here
uh... not most of those people are
as anti gay is the pulp right
up some of them are but most of them are and and really a lot of catholics
actually have a verse back
for for equality among
all people so this really is a time were i'm having trouble imagining white lies
the catholic church church
still uh... as big as it is that i haven't do people just
pick and choose and say well
i don't believe that but i'm going north
be going beyond that there are people who are being convinced by the catholic
church's position on on algae bt equality
and the church is creating
anti-gay sentiment entitle g_a_t_t_ sentiment and it's it's incredibly
dangerous right now i mean do it
to be blind as soon as all these old falls diet and the people who grew up
in uh... it
more modern
logical times multiple times
uh... start taking over
you're gonna see changes and things are going to go more of the way of of logic
and reason is that what you had to get a quality we just need to know
absolutely me like you said this guy's howled eighty-four eighty four years old
e considering uh... the the type of atmosphere he grew up in you really
expect him to be open-minded about anything like this nag has not
i mean you know there there are still rumors that pope that pope benedict is
getting
it you know that i mean i've talked to a number of people who are involved in the
catholic church they don't personally know him but they do know a number of
different people in their lives are where where of uh... his assistant is
getting homosexuality and
and uh... bother dates
in uh...
in the church i mean that they're pretty
for our what i stir rampant it's it's rampant mileage is it i have someone who
would say that it's reacted yeah in the church yeah i think in the same person
ahead so
there it is but i i think we we time
being things will change
you hold forth of hope you're right