Pope Benedict XVI on Thursday urged Italian Catholics to oppose any moves to legalize "weak and deviant" unions in a speech delivered in the Italian city of Verona.
While he did not specifically mention gay marriage, Reuters reports that thousands of listeners at the fairgrounds in Verona's outskirts strongly applauded the two parts of his speech about the family and "other forms of unions".
He urged them to fight "with determination ... the risk of political and legislative decisions that contradict fundamental values and anthropological and ethical principles rooted in human nature," reports Reuters.
The Pope said they had to defend "the family based on matrimony, opposing the introduction of laws on other forms of unions which would only destabilize it and obscure its special character and its social role, which has no substitute."
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In another section of his speech, the Pope made another apparent reference to homosexual marriage, stating that the Church had to say "'no' to weak and deviant forms of love," reports Reuters.
Normally I would be shrieking a barrage of obscenities that would make my RA burst into flames, excoriating the pope for being a homophobic imbecile and slandering all gay people and couples.
But I just can't get over the headline: "Pope Attacks Gay Unions, Calling Them 'Weak And Defiant'"
That's an unfortunate typo to make.
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