I'm not going to get into the merits of this article except on one point:
While pundits say it is too soon to conjecture fully about the tenor of this new papacy, the well-documented religious leanings of Pope Benedict XVI – as Cardinal Ratzinger has chosen for his official papal name – suggest that the incoming pontiff will follow closely in his predecessor’s footsteps by advocating a tightly-controlled interpretation of Scripture and a renewed focus on returning the church to its ultraconservative roots.
The bolds are my own. It says something about the veracity of such 'opinion' when the writer giving the opinion is so fundamentally uninformed as to what the Roman Church's doctrine really is when it comes to Scripture. Wasn't one of the Reformation's key points against the Church that Rome did not follow Scripture closely enough? And that 'ultra conservative' point. That just makes me smile.
If the homosexual community wishes to comment on Benedict XVI and the Roman Catholic Church, by all means, it's a free country. But the least they could do is find columnists who know what they're talking about.
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