Pope Tries A Rick Waren Move

I and many others have written about Nazi Pope Benedict XVI's latest attack on LGBT individuals when he said that protecting the human race from homosexuality was on a par with saving the tropical rain forests. Now the former Hitler Youth Pope through a spokesman is claiming he never made the statement and/or that it was misinterpreted. The same type of tactic that Christianist anti-gay bigot Rick Warren made when slammed for equating gay marriage with incest and pedophilia. Nice try, but it will not work since he former statements are of record. I am always baffled by those who try to claim that they never made statements event though they are in written form or on video. Nothing like documenting that you're a liar and a bad one at that. Here are some highlights from Pink News UK on the effort to spin the fiction that Ratzi did not say what he is documented to have said, as well as comments from a UK gay rights leaders:

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Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, head of the Catholic Church in England and Wales and Archbishop of Westminster, has defended Pope Benedict XVI's controversial comments about gay people.

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During an interview on this morning on Radio 4's Today programme, Cardinal Murphy-O'Connor said that the pope "wasn't condeming anyone or any person" with his comments. The cardinal went on to say that the pope was only trying to emphasise the importance of the family, and the responsibility on humans to procreate. He also said that Pope Benedict's comments were "quite difficult to interpret" and as a result of this that he had been "very much" misrepresented in the media.

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London Gay Christian Movement chief executive Rev Sharon Ferguson said: "There are still so many instances of people being killed around the world, including in western society, purely and simply because of their sexual orientation or their gender identity. "When you have religious leaders like that making that sort of statement then followers feel they are justified in behaving in an aggressive and violent way because they feel that they are doing God's work in ridding the world of these people."

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"This must be the most ourtrageous and bizarre claim yet made by the Pope who has already got a well-deserved reputation as one the most viciously homophobic world leaders on a par with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran and Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe," said PTT secretary and trustee George Broadhead. "The Vatican has already reinforced its anti-gay reputation by strongly opposing a UN declaration calling for an end to discrimination against gays, but this latest Papal outburst is clear evidence of an obsession about homosexuality which is tantamount to paranoia."

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Gay equality activist Peter Tatchell wrote on PinkNews.co.uk: "The suggestion that gay people are a threat to human survival is absurd and dangerous. It is poisonous propaganda that will give comfort and succour to queer-bashers everywhere.