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Gay Lovemaking to Murder |
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By Ernest S. Barteldes
Special from Brazil to GayToday
This statement, which, strangely, became the paper's headline in a broad interview about other matters, came after the paper's reporter inquired about Pope John Paul II's refusal to include Roman Catholic persecution against homosexuals in last week's Vatican mea culpa. According to the Archbishop, same-sex preference is a human failure just as is any resort to violence, homicide or other "deformations." The Archbishop acknowledged that many kinds of oppressed peoples have been ignored over the years. However, he said, the Roman Catholic Church should not beg forgiveness from homosexuals nor should it consider a homosexual's preference as something natural, "which, in fact, it is not."
The newspaper's reporter inquired if comparing homicide to homosexualism wouldn't be sheer religious intolerance, to which the archbishop replied that "a tendency is one thing, and its practice is another. A human being might have homicidal tendencies but never murder anyone, just as someone else might have homosexual tendencies without ever putting them into practice." "All are invited and embraced by God's mercy," he stated, and "all are called for conversion." The interview concluded with a focus on other issues of local and national importance. |
Fortaleza,Brazil – In an interview published by O Povo 
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