{"id":10199,"date":"2012-01-09T12:31:01","date_gmt":"2012-01-09T12:31:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theredphoenixapl.org\/?p=10199"},"modified":"2026-04-23T23:30:34","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T04:30:34","slug":"pope-gay-marriage-a-threat-to-humanitys-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/2012\/01\/pope-gay-marriage-a-threat-to-humanitys-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope: Gay marriage a threat to humanity’s future"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Philip Pullella<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

VATICAN CITY | Mon Jan 9, 2012 2:25pm EST<\/span><\/p>\n

(Reuters) – Pope Benedict said Monday that gay marriage was one of several threats to the traditional family that undermined “the future of humanity itself.”<\/span><\/h3>\n

The pope made some of his strongest comments against gay marriage in a new year address to the diplomatic corps accredited to the Vatican in which he touched on some economic and social issues facing the world today.<\/span><\/p>\n

He told diplomats from nearly 180 countries that the education of children needed proper “settings” and that “pride of place goes to the family, based on the marriage of a man and a woman.”<\/span><\/p>\n

“This is not a simple social convention, but rather the fundamental cell of every society. Consequently, policies which undermine the family threaten human dignity and the future of humanity itself,” he said.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Vatican and Catholic officials around the world have protested against moves to legalize gay marriage in Europe and other developed parts of the world.<\/span><\/p>\n

One leading opponent of gay marriage in the United States is New York Archbishop Timothy Dolan, whom the pope will elevate to cardinal next month.<\/span><\/p>\n

Dolan fought against gay marriage before it became legal in New York state last June, and in September he sent a letter to President Barack Obama criticizing his administration’s decision not to support a federal ban on gay marriage.<\/span><\/p>\n

In that letter Dolan, who holds the powerful post of president of the U.S. Bishops Conference, said such a policy could “precipitate a national conflict between church and state of enormous proportions.”<\/span><\/p>\n

The Roman Catholic Church, which has some 1.3 billion members worldwide, teaches that while homosexual tendencies are not sinful, homosexual acts are, and that children should grow up in a traditional family with a mother and a father.<\/span><\/p>\n

“The family unit is fundamental for the educational process and for the development both of individuals and states; hence there is a need for policies which promote the family and aid social cohesion and dialogue,” Benedict told the diplomats.<\/span><\/p>\n

Gay marriage is legal in a number of European countries, including Spain and the Netherlands.<\/span><\/p>\n

Some Churches that have allowed gay marriage, women priests, gay clergy and gay bishops have been losing members to Catholicism, and the Vatican has taken steps to facilitate their conversion.<\/span><\/p>\n

In 2009, Benedict decreed that Anglicans who leave their Church, many because they feel it has become too liberal, can find a home in Catholicism in a parallel hierarchy that allows them to keep some of their traditions.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Vatican has since set up “ordinariates,” structures similar to dioceses, in Britain and the United States to oversee ex-Anglicans who have converted and be a point of contact for those wishing to do so.<\/span><\/p>\n

(Reporting By Philip Pullella; editing by Tim Pearce)<\/span><\/p>\n

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