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Pope Bashes Gays

Calls homosexuality "a destruction of God's work."

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L'Osservatore Romano/AP

Well, at least Barack Obama hasn't invited him to speak at inauguration: In his year-end address to senior Vatican staff, the Pope called homosexuality “a destruction of God’s work” and said that humanity needed “saving” from it in the same way that the rainforests need saving. The church’s duty, he said, was to “protect man from the destruction of himself”—the Catholic Church maintains that homosexuality is not a sin, but homosexual acts are. LGBT groups immediately denounced the Pope’s comments.

Read it at The Daily Telegraph

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