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Civil Liberties

Pope Attacks Gay Marriage on Twitter

Says gay marriage denies God

Reason Staff | 12.21.2012 12:00 PM

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Benedict promoted traditional marriage in his annual 'State of the Church' speech at the Vatican and added posts lauding truth, faith and family to his popular personal Twitter account this week.

Gay marriage denies God and devalues human dignity, Pope Benedict XVI said Friday in his annual "state of the Church address at the Vatican.

Speaking to the Curia, the bureaucrats who run the global church of 1.2 billion Catholics, the pope said opposition to gay marriage is a way of defending humanity: "Whoever defends God is defending man."

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