As the media continue to churn out condemnations of the Pope by gay activists you have to wonder ...

... have any of them read the Pope's words at all?

Giles Fraser, for instance, a pro-homosexual Anglican, claims that "this is the sort of religious homophobia would be an alibi for all those who would do gay people harm."

Well, read for yourself the offending words and see if they fill you with a desire to rush out and attack homosexuals:

"It is necessary to have something like an ecology of man, understood in the right sense. It is not outdated metaphysics when the Church speaks of the nature of the human being as man and woman, and asks that this natural order be respected.

"This has to do with faith in the Creator and listening to the language of creation which, if disregarded, would be man's self-destruction and therefore a destruction of God's work itself.

"That which has come to be expressed and understood with the term "gender" effectively results in man's self-emancipation from creation (nature) and from the Creator. Man wants to do everything by himself and to decide always and exclusively about anything that concerns him personally. But this is to live against the truth, to live against the spirit creator." (Translation by Teresa Benedetta.)

That, believe it or not, is it. That's what has prompted Ann Louise-Gilligan to accuse the Pope of "denying her humanity" and Senator David Norris (in today's Indo) to call the Pope "an appalling man". A single mention of "gender", no mention at all of homosexuality.

What a lot of media-engineered hysteria. Damien Thompson has a wry take on the situation here.