Madam, – The world’s media were very quick to report – and condemn – Pope Benedict’s comments on human nature during his recent address to the Curia. As usual, however, the pope has been misquoted, on this occasion to an almost criminal extent.
Here is how Reuters reported the speech: “Benedict said on Monday that saving humanity from homosexual or transsexual behaviour was just as important as saving the rainforest from destruction.”
Pope Benedict never said those words and the controversy that has arisen since was utterly contrived. In fact, the pope never mentioned homosexuality or transsexuality in his address.
What Benedict did say is that we need to protect the nature of man in the same way as we protect the environment. One way to protect it is to resist gender ideology which states that the differences between men and women are the product of society rather than nature.
The disappointment remains that a story which was so easily contrived should have been accepted so uncritically by a lazy media and therefore by many members of the public. – Yours, etc,