more on the Hitler Youth Pope and homosexuality

There are claims that Catholic explorations of faith and the nature of humanity are behind his latest assault on homosexuals and transsexuals. Perhaps this clarification from the Daily Mail will help dispel this lame attempt to moderate the full horror of what the Pope is up to:

'This month the Vatican opposed a proposed UN declaration, backed by all 27 European Union states, calling for an end to the practice of criminalising and punishing people for their sexual orientation.

The declaration was seen as an important condemnation of countries such as Iran and Saudi Arabia, where homosexuality can be punished by death.' Daily Mail (23 Dec 2008)

In other words, the Vatican believes in the criminalisation of people for their sexual orientation. (Amazingly, it no longer supports capital punishment.) Compared to the evils visited on the world by the Catholic church over the centuries, homosexuals seems a remarkably benign 'group', not to mention a very large one if the received estimates of people predisposed to homosexuality are reliable. Is it not time to stop respecting the Catholic church (and other churches similarly disposed) and treat it as the divisive, cruel, power-obsessed institution it really is?