Pope Calls Gay Marriage Part of 'Ideology of Evil'

ROME (Reuters) - Homosexual marriages are part of "a new ideology of evil" that is insidiously threatening society, Pope John Paul says in a new book published Tuesday.

In "Memory and Identity," the Pope also calls abortion a "legal extermination" comparable to attempts to wipe out Jews and other groups in the 20th century.

In following paragraphs he says that legally elected parliaments in formerly totalitarian countries were today allowing what he called new forms of evil and new exterminations.

"There is still, however a legal extermination of human beings who have been conceived but not yet born," he writes.

"And this time we are talking about an extermination which has been allowed by nothing less than democratically elected parliaments where one normally hears appeals for the civil progress of society and all humanity," he writes.

In Germany, a leader of the country's Central Council of Jews called the comparison unacceptable.

It can only be an unacceptable comparison in so far as the numbers are concerned, it seems. What we are witnessing, here in the United States for example, is nothing less than the wholesale slaughter of over 250,000,000 children. This number is based on all abortions from 1973 to the present by all means, including especially the abortions which occur due to contraception.

This is not meant to diminish, in any way, the horrendous atrocities committed by the Nazis during World War II. In fact, one can we see similarities such as the unrestrained murder of those who are not wanted or who are deemed burdensome or inconvenient and the evil experimentation of the defenseless for the acquisition of "knowledge". What was never to happen again, is happening again, and on a scale never before seen in human history.

[Cardinal] Ratzinger said the Pope "was not trying to put the Holocaust and abortion on the same plane" but only warning that evil lurked everywhere, "even in liberal political systems."

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