Pope Benedict made some ridiculous comments in an end-of-year speech to senior Vatican staff. Defending God's creation was not limited to saving the environment, he said, but also about protecting man from himself.

It is not "out-of-date metaphysics" to "speak of human nature as
'man' or woman'", he said. It came from the "language of creation,
despising which would mean self-destruction for humans". Gender theories, he said, led to man's "auto-emancipation" from creation and Creator. "Rain forests deserve, yes, our protection but the human being... does not deserve it less," he said. Translation: Gays are a disaster for humanity...

So Beni is really out of touch with the rest of the world - or perhaps he is talking about himself: let's face it: here is a guy who always wears dresses, likes fancy hats, has a couple of thousand cute boys around him and ... let's not forget paid hundreds of millions to victims of pedophile priests...