The Vatican, addressing the United Nations’ Human Rights Council today, stated its opposition to pedophilia and incest, listing them as “certain kinds of sexual behaviors [that] must be forbidden by law,” and bemoaned the “disturbing trend” it sees of people “being attacked for taking positions that do not support sexual behavior between people of the same sex.”
“When they express their moral beliefs or beliefs about human nature . . . they are stigmatised, and worse — they are vilified, and prosecuted,” spoke Archbishop Silvano Tomasi, adding, “These attacks are violations of fundamental human rights and cannot be justified under any circumstances.”
The Vatican has been under extreme pressure from western nations for its international pedophilia priest rape and sexual abuse scandal that has reached epic proportions and has cost the Catholic Church, and its local parishes untold millions of dollars, along with a diminishing rate of support of the Church, especially in the west.
Read: “Pope Faces International Charges For “Crimes Against Humanity–
The Vatican has long-opposed, at least until recently, treating any instance of a priest reported for sexually abusing children as a legal matter, instead choosing — some would add, illegally — to treat these as internal issues, bypassing local law enforcement.
The Vatican’s choice today of speaking out at the United Nations against those nations that are supportive of same-sex marriage and embracing equal civil rights for all, including the LGBT community, comes on the same day the Obama administration introduced a declaration to the UN which calls for improved treatment and protections for LGBT people internationally. That declaration already has more than 80 cosponsors.
Read: “Majority Of U.S. Catholics Support Same-Sex Marriage, Same-Sex Sex Not A Sin“
Also coincidental is the shared voice of the Vatican and the National Organization for Marriage (NOM), which recently has been focused on what it claims to see as a dwindling tolerance for religion internationally and at home. Maggie Gallagher, NOM’s chairman, has written recently, “Gay marriage advocates are no longer persuading, they are intimidating and silencing.”
The Vatican, under the leadership of Pope Benedict XVI, recently has claimed it was being treated like Holocaust victims, and blamed homosexuality and Jews on the its international pedophilia scandal.
Pope Benedict XVI himself, the head of the Vatican, has recently said of marriage that “no one can make a claim to the right to a nuptial ceremony,†and marriage is therefore not a God-given right, also earlier this year claimed that same-sex marriages were “penalizing†opposite-sex marriages.
Additionally, it’s important to remember that this is the Pope who said in a 2010 end of year message to his Cardinals that “In the 1970s, pedophilia was theorised as something fully in conformity with man and even with children,†and added that pedophilia wasn’t even considered an “absolute evil.â€
Benedict XVI has declared that laws which legalize same-sex marriage “contribute to the weakening of the principles of natural law,†and to “confusion about society’s values,†and claimed that same-sex marriage “attacks†the “endangered species†that is mankind. Even before he was elected Pope, he knew of the pedophile priest sex abuse scandal, yet did not act.