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December 27, 2008
The Pope--Benedict XVI--- in the context of his Christmas "greeting" to the Roman Curia made some controversial remarks about gender and homosexuality along the lines of protecting the rainforests from destruction in the same vein as protecting heterosexuals from homosexuality. The full text is here.
The pope's concession to the environment is perfunctory and superficial – "Yes, the tropical forests merit our protection" – and subordinated to "the human being as a creature (which) merits no less protection – a creature in which a message is written which does not imply a contradiction of our liberty, but rather the condition for it."
This is a religion that gives human beings dominion over nature, the conquest of which has been one of its proudest achievements. It is not likely that it will contribute anything very helpful to the discussion of the relationship either between humanity and the earth
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Is he doing the Y from the Village Peoples song Y.M.C.A?