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   > The Pontiff has issued a new decree that makes perfect sense. They   
   > will partner with other religions in fighting the homos marriage   
   > farce. .... b&c   
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   > Pope Benedict XVI waves as he leaves after leading his Wednesday   
   > general audience in Paul VI's Hall at the Vatican December 19, 2012.   
   > REUTERS/Giampiero Sposito ~ [CLICK TO ENLARGE]   
   >   
   > By Philip Pullella   
   >   
   > VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Benedict on Friday signaled the Vatican   
   > was ready to forge alliances with other religions against gay   
   > marriage, saying the family was threatened "to its foundations" by   
   > attempts to change its "true structure".   
   >   
   > The pope's latest denunciation of gay marriage came in a Christmas   
   > address to Vatican officials in which he blended religion, philosophy,   
   > anthropology and sociology to illustrate the position of the Roman   
   > Catholic Church.   
   >   
   > The Vatican has gone on the offensive in response to gains for gay   
   > marriage in the United States and Europe, using every possible   
   > opportunity to denounce it through papal speeches or editorials in its   
   > newspaper or on its radio station.   
   >   
   > Throwing the full weight of his office behind a study by France's   
   > chief rabbi on the effects the legalization of gay marriage would have   
   > on children and society, he said:   
   >   
   > "There is no denying the crisis that threatens it (the family) to its   
   > foundations - especially in the Western world."   
   >   
   > The family had to be protected because it was "the authentic setting   
   > in which to hand on the blueprint of human existence", he added.   
   >   
   > Speaking in the frescoed Clementine Hall of the Vatican's Apostolic   
   > Palace, the 85-year-old pope said the family was being threatened by   
   > "a false understanding of freedom" and a repudiation of life-long   
   > commitment in heterosexual marriage.   
   >   
   > "When such commitment is repudiated, the key figures of human   
   > existence likewise vanish: father, mother, child - essential elements   
   > of the experience of being human are lost," the leader of the world's   
   > 1.2 billion Catholics said.   
   >   
   > In the speech, one of the most important the pope gives every year, he   
   > said people could not "dispute the idea that they have a nature, given   
   > by their bodily identity, that serves as a defining element of the   
   > human being".   
   >   
   > The "pre-ordained duality of man and woman" had to be respected, he   
   > said, if families and children were not to lose their place and   
   > dignity.   
   >   
   > People could not become what he called "abstract human beings"   
   > choosing for themselves what their nature would be, added.   
   >   
   > RELIGIOUS ALLIANCE   
   >   
   > In some countries, the Catholic Church has already joined forces with   
   > Jews, Muslims and members of other religions to oppose the   
   > legalization of gay marriage, in some cases presenting arguments based   
   > on legal, social and anthropological analyses rather than religious   
   > teachings.   
   >   
   > Significantly, the pope specifically praised as "profoundly moving" a   
   > study by Gilles Bernheim, France's chief rabbi, which has become the   
   > subject of heated debate in that country.   
   >   
   > Bernheim, also a philosopher, argues that homosexual rights groups   
   > "will use gay marriage as a Trojan Horse" in a wider campaign to "deny   
   > sexual identity and erase sexual differences" and "undermine the   
   > heterosexual fundamentals of our society".   
   >   
   > His study, "Gay Marriage, Parenthood and Adoption: What We Often   
   > Forget To Say", argues that plans to legalize gay marriage are being   
   > made for "the exclusive profit of a tiny minority" and are often   
   > supported because of political correctness.   
   >   
   > In his own speech on Friday, the pope repeated some of the concepts in   
   > the Bernheim study, including an assertion that children raised by gay   
   > couples would be more "objects" than individuals.   
      
      
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