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marmar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-30-11 06:40 AM
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More absurdity from the banks of the Tiber........


The Vatican, addressing the United Nations’ Human Rights Council today, stated its opposition to pedophilia and incest, listing them as “certain kinds of sexual behaviors (that) must be forbidden by law,” and bemoaned the “disturbing trend” it sees of people ”being attacked for taking positions that do not support sexual behavior between people of the same sex.”

“When they express their moral beliefs or beliefs about human nature . . . they are stigmatised, and worse — they are vilified, and prosecuted,” spoke Archbishop Silvano Tomasi, adding, ”These attacks are violations of fundamental human rights and cannot be justified under any circumstances.”

The Vatican has been under extreme pressure from western nations for its international pedophilia priest rape and sexual abuse scandal that has reached epic proportions and has cost the Catholic Church, and its local parishes untold millions of dollars, along with a diminishing rate of support of the Church, especially in the west. ...............(more)

The complete piece is at: http://thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/vilified-vatican-tells-u-n-anti-gay-critics-under-increased-attack/marriage/2011/03/22/18198



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xchrom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-30-11 06:56 AM
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1. poor persecuted pope ratz.
:eyes: i would like these assholes to come out with evidence that we intimidate and silence them on the issue of marriage equality.

they've had all the say so for what? two thousand years?

they just don't want to 'compete'.
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