One could only hope.  I mean... I don't think we've ever even seen that pope.

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Great to see it's not ok for someone to call homosexuality a disease, but it's ok for people to call Catholicism one? Another fantastic example of the fantastic moderation we have here! Gotta love how the Catholics are about the only group in the world that people have free reign to attack and bash without anyone giving two flying craps.

The pope didn't promote aids in Africa either. Just another example of people taking stuff he says way out of context for the sole purpose of serving their own agenda or (this wouldn't happen mind you) bash Catholicism. Absolutely shocking.

^ Blame Monty Python :D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0kJHQpvgB8

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After having it explained to me many, many times I still fail to see, apart from a few extremely tenuous verses, where the bible condemns homosexuality.

I think that it is just a side agenda that has been adopted by some Catholics and they have tried to justify it with the bible.

Eh, that's not really how it works no offense.

I doubt many catholics now have a "side agenda" about being gay.

Rather past "side agendas" lead into peoples problems now.

For example, priests not being able to marry or have sex.

People are against that now, even though it's not in the bible.

If anything it's likely do to the politcial ramifications of homosexuality in the past being ingrained into tradition.

In some ways tradition is religions worst enemy... it's like covering your hair in Islam.  Not mandatory at first, something that was done to show religious piety and eventually it evolved into something that had to be done.

Basically the people calling Catholocism a diesease aren't serious about it, just pissed off at the way groups are treated by the Catholic church. I agree that it was out of line to say it, but its kind of understandable being pissed off at an organisation saying that you've got a diesease and need to be cured or you are going to hell constantly.

Also the Pope refused to allow people to use condoms in Africa, while not directly 'promoting aids' its causing it in such an obvious indirect way. It really is a Vatican policy that may have been acceptable pre-aids but now is just shocking.

Nah it's made pretty plain that dudes doing it really pisses off God.

It was the main reason God burnt Sodom and Gomorrah to the ground because of it according to the Bible.  The word sodomy comes from Sodom.

Men having sex with men and women having sex with women is considered a sin because it deals only with pleasures of the flesh and has nothing to do with procreation.

The Pope is entitled to his opinion just as much as homosexuals are entitled to theirs in my opinion.  

I think that homosexual people have the right to do as they want and it doesn't bother me, but they shouldn't hold it against people that do find it to be "wrong" as long as they are not bashing them.