Paying for Pope visit no one wants
IF the Pope asserted a faith-based right to exclude all black people from senior positions in the Roman Catholic Church, such an outburst would quite rightly be received with howls of protest.
Yet he criticises the Equality Bill, currently before parliament, for protecting homosexuals from religious discrimination
he thinks is morally justified! Meddling in our affairs,
he said the UK equality legislation 'violates the natural law'.
Should we be so surprised?
In December 2008,
Pope Benedict gave the global gay community a Christmas present which amounted to a kick in the teeth. Pope Benedict XVI (aka Joseph Ratzinger) wrote in 1986 that homosexual orientation is an 'objective disorder' towards an 'intrinsic moral evil'.
To add insult to injury, in September, taxpaying lesbians and gay men will
be dipping into their pockets to find the 20 million to fund a state visit from an offensive old bigot most of us – gay and straight - don't want.
Narvel Annable,
Dovedale Cresc,
Belper, Derbyshire
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