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Vatican City, Dec 18:

The Vatican’s newspaper slammed laws on gay marriage as an attempt at a communist-like “utopia”, a day after tens of thousands of demonstrators turned out in France to support homosexual unions.

In a scathing front-page editorial yesterday, the official Osservatore Romano daily said gay couples were in “a different reality” from heterosexual couples.

The paper took particular issue with a decision by French Catholic weekly Temoignage Chretien to offer its support for a controversial proposal to allow gay marriage in France, which is due to go before parliament next year.

“It is upsetting because in taking this position, the most banal politically correct arguments were used,” the Osservatore Romano said, adding: “Being Catholic is about much more than embracing fashionable cultural standpoints.”

“We cannot base a society on these foundations without then paying a very high price as happened in the past when there was an attempt to achieve total economic and social equality,” the paper said.

“Why repeat the same mistake and chase after an unattainable utopia?”

Gay rights campaigners held a small protest on Sunday near St Peter’s Square during Pope Benedict XVI’s weekly prayers in which they held up cut-out paper hearts with slogans like “Love Thy Neighbour” and “Love Has No Barriers“.

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Gay marriage is a "Communist-like utopia"?! Gay marriage is an "unattainable utopia"?! Gay marriage is a "fashionable cultural standpoint"?!

They're getting nuttier and nuttier as they lose ground.

I have this feeling that by the end of the 21st Century, the "Holy" Roman Catholic Church will be relegated to a footnote in the history books. Who knows... maybe this former NAZI is their last leader.

I find it mildly amusing that the religious right assigns the word communist to whatever they hate and/or fear.

I assume that they want to make it appear more evil, since trying to use their guide book to prove something is evil has failed over and over again.

Oskar, what you posted is exactly what I was thinking as I read the OP.

I don't think the "true" religious right likes the Catholic Church either.

There's a "true" religious right?

Bad terminology on my part. I am thinking of the Evangelical Christian Right. Those who preach to us that our way will lead us to hell and their way is the only way.

"Evangelican Christian" is a title used to differentiate an individual from a Catholic Christian or an Orthodox Christian. An evangelical Christian is a believer who holds to the inspiration, inerrancy, and authority of Scripture, the Trinity, the deity of Christ, and salvation by grace through faith alone. No good deeds necessary, and this is where they really don't like the Catholic church.

Too many good deeds by Catholics?

It goes back to the buying of indulgences.

MY bil who has found Les Feldick on cable TV recently told my non-practicing Catholic husband he was going to hell for being Catholic.

I am more or less sick of the whole thing.

Perhaps non-practicing Catholic hubby needs to tell bil to mind his own bidness.

Evangelicals think spreading the good news is their business. LOL!!!

Anyway Catholics went for Obama the last two election cycles. The Vatican is out of touch. Also interesting that the Pope's recent book debunked a whole lot of classic Nativity Story.