Pope Angers Gay Groups: Defending Humanity Against Homosexuality As Important As Saving The Rainforest!

The media totally took the Pope's comments out of context.  If one actually reads what the Pope said, it's hard to make the homophobic leap being ascribed to him.  Here is what he wrote in 1986.  Seems pretty tolerant to me.


The human person, made in the image and likeness of God, can hardly be adequately described by a reductionist reference to his or her sexual orientation. Every one living on the face of the earth has personal problems and difficulties, but challenges to growth, strengths, talents and gifts as well. Today, the Church provides a badly needed context for the care of the human person when she refuses to consider the person as a "heterosexual" or a "homosexual" and insists that every person has a fundamental Identity: the creature of God, and by grace, his child and heir to eternal life.
Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, 1986