Pope Benedict Compares Saving Homosexuals to Saving the Rainforest from Destruction

Well, the latest religious leader to join the dust-up over gay and lesbian rights is none other that Pope Benedict. He said that saving humanity from homosexual or transsexual behavior was just as important as saving the rainforest from destruction. Really Pope Benedict? The survival of the rainforest is akin to saving a homosexual from destruction? Totally insulting and reprehensible on his part. Many homosexuals don't see their choice as one leading to destruction. The last people who need to talk about ruining someone's life is the Catholic church. Pope Benedict, how about those priests that literally destroyed the lives of innocent kids when they molested them repeatedly? Was saving them comparable to saving the rainforest?

"(The Church) should also protect man from the destruction of himself. A sort of ecology of man is needed," the pontiff said in a holiday address to the Curia, the Vatican's central administration. "The tropical forests do deserve our protection. But man, as a creature, does not deserve any less."

The Catholic Church teaches that while homosexuality is not sinful, homosexual acts are. It opposes gay marriage and, in October, a leading Vatican official called homosexuality "a deviation, an irregularity, a wound."

The pope said humanity needed to "listen to the language of creation" to understand the intended roles of man and woman. He compared behavior beyond traditional heterosexual relations as "a destruction of God's work." He also defended the Church's right to "speak of human nature as man and woman, and ask that this order of creation be respected." Source: Reuters

I agree with him to a point, but the Roman Catholic church managed to conceal thousands of cases of homosexual acts of many priests, so to compare being a homosexual to saving the rainforest is actually an insult. Personally, the only thing I agree with him on is the issue of marriage. If it ever comes up for a vote in Georgia, I will most definitely vote against gay marriage. Sorry, folks, as a Christian, I just can't bring myself to see marriage as anything other than between a man and a woman. He needs to apologize to these people for that comparison. Since when is the rainforest on par with humanity for the same attention and compassion? Isn't he stoking homophobia from his comments?