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# Pope: Saving world from homosexuality like saving rainforests
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## The Pope said that "saving" humanity from homosexual or transsexual
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behaviour is just as important as saving the rainforests.
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![Pope: Saving world from homosexuality like saving rainforests ][1]
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The Catholic Church teaches that while homosexuality is not sinful, homosexual
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acts are Photo: AP
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By Our Foreign Staff 6:33PM GMT 22 Dec 2008
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In comments at the Vatican that are likely to provoke a furious reaction from
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homosexual groups, Benedict also warned that blurring the distinction between
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male and female could lead to the "self-destruction" of the human race.
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In his address to the Curia, the Vatican's central administration, he
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described behaviour beyond traditional heterosexual relations as "a
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destruction of God's work" and said that the Roman Catholic Church had a duty
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to "protect man from the destruction of himself".
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It is not "outmoded metaphysics" to urge respect for the "nature of the human
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being as man and woman," he added.
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"The tropical forests do deserve our protection. But man, as a creature, does
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not deserve any less."
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The Catholic Church teaches that while homosexuality is not sinful, homosexual
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acts are. It opposes gay marriage and, in October, a leading Vatican official
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described homosexuality as "a deviation, an irregularity, a wound".
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The Pope said humanity needed to "listen to the language of creation" to
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understand the intended roles of man and woman.
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He also defended the Church's right to "speak of human nature as man and
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woman, and ask that this order of creation be respected".
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