Blessed bigotry: Pope Benedict XVI is "Anti-Gay Person of the Year"

[racaulk]

http://www.sovo.com/2005/12-30/news/worldnews/worldnews_pope.cfm

Presiding over what some describe as the “strongest bully pulpit in the world,” Pope Benedict XVI, just eight months into his tenure, has unilaterally targeted gays as moral threats to society.

From banning gay priests to publicly lobbying against legal recognition for gay couples in Spain and Italy, Pope Benedict XVI has aggressively lobbied against gay rights across the globe.

“His rhetoric is obscene. He wants gays clearly taken care of — it’s almost like the Final Solution,” said Kara Speltz, a Catholic lesbian activist for Soulforce, an organization dedicated to ending anti-gay discrimination within all religions.

For 20 years, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger served under Pope John Paul II before being elected April 19 as the 265th pope.

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[Zambero]

1. Let the Holy-caust begin!

What's at the root of this? Might this man's motivation have as a basis some deeply hidden and shameful secret, leaving him full of self-loathing? At any rate, his own background as a Hitler youth should come in handy when it comes to persecuting gays and any other oppressed minorities that need to be "dealt with".

[Imagine My Surprise]

3. I think it's safe to assume that Cardinal Rat Face and Roy Cohn...

share a few similarities. Methinks the queen doth protest too much.

[tuvor]

2. Wish he'd clean his own pedophilia-ridden house out first.

Popes don't really seem to have a problem with man-boy relations, do they?

[xchrom]

4. the pope gets his purge on.