Looks like the Pope has caused a bit of a storm with a whole range of people. Andrei has a good post up on the details. Not PC is a little surprised, but then he puts it all down to the advisers the Pope must have.
I'd just like to highlight a couple of statements that stood out to me.
Related Links: Daily Mail, New York Sun
I'd just like to highlight a couple of statements that stood out to me.
... fears over man-made emissions melting the ice caps and causing a wave of unprecedented disasters were nothing more than scare-mongering.This has been my position on climate change all along - I'm so glad I don't need to reconsider!
The German-born Pontiff said that while some concerns may be valid it was vital that the international community based its policies on science rather than the dogma of the environmentalist movement.
... the world needed to care for the environment but not to the point where the welfare of animals and plants was given a greater priority than that of mankind.Yes! All those people that are so worried about whales or giant snails - are they at all perturbed by tiny human babies being sucked out of their mother's wombs? Related to that, this Sunday marks 400,000 tiny human lives taken by abortion in NZ in the last 30 years.
"The human community cannot do without the service provided by the family. Where can young people gradually learn to savor the genuine 'taste‚' of peace better than in the original 'nest‚' which nature prepares for them."It has often been asked why gay marriage threatens traditional marriage. As if someone else's marriage could threaten another's. But the threat is not so much direct as indirect. Once the notion of marriage, all it entails, all it's responsibilities are changed, marriage is weakened. If it is considered that marriage is temporary, until one "partner" falls out of love, then marriage is weakened, and the children's ability to form life long relationships is weakened, as they've never seen how a life long relationship works. If any man and his dog can get married, then marriage becomes a joke, something no one really needs or aspires to. Yet marriage is fundamentally necessary in raising children and instilling values. Without that, everything falls apart. And we can see that happening quite clearly in NZ.
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"Whoever, even unknowingly, circumvents the institution of the family undermines peace in the entire community, national and international, since he weakens what is in effect the primary agency of peace. This point merits special reflection: Everything that serves to weaken the family based on the marriage of a man and a woman constitutes an objective obstacle on the road to peace."
Related Links: Daily Mail, New York Sun