The Irish Times (sort of) has the story here. Note a.) the melodramatic headline, b.) the lack of any kind of context - we are only told that the Pope was addressing the Curia, not when or for what reason - and c.) the absence of any quotation from his address except a few general and inoffensive words which are about as intolerant as a bowl of trifle. This didn't stop a certain "Rev." Sharon Ferguson, Chief Executive(!) of the Lesbian and Gay Christian Movement, claiming that "It is comments like that that justify gay bashing."
But here's something that might give people pause for thought before rushing out to accuse the Pope of fomenting intolerance. The first I heard of the remark was this morning, when Ann Louise Gilligan gave out about it on the radio, claiming that the Pope was denying her "humanity." I had heard nothing about it before then. I trawled through various Catholic news agencies on the internet, but was unable to find a reference to the Pope's remark. The only mention of it on the web that I could find were reports that various homosexual groups had "slammed" it. If the media hadn't kicked up a fuss, virtually no one would have heard of it at all. My question is: if the homosexual lobby was genuinely fearful that the Pope's words could lead to violence against them, would they be publicising those words so dilligently? Or is their goal simply to have another dig at the Pope and portray him as a befuddled reactionary?
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The same thing happened in Romania two years when gay community claimed that the Patriarch of Romania said that they turned Romania into a Sodome. It wasn't true, of course, even though he is against homosexuals and their way they're living. This leaded to street fight.
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