The Pope and Gay Marriage

Via Drudge comes this MSNBC report in which Pope John Paul II suggests (or "may have suggested") that gay marriage may reflect "an ideology of evil."

The published text now segues from the "ideologies of evil" that drove the Holocaust and Stalin's massacres to abortion: "the legal extermination of human beings conceived but unborn" decreed by "democratically elected parliaments." The European Parliament's inclination to recognize homosexual unions as "an alternative type of family, with the right to adopt children," says the book, may be the work of another "ideology of evil."

Whole thing here.

Please. If it's evil to enter into a committed relationship–and to adopt and raise children–the pope's whole "culture of death" rap strikes me as incoherent and morally opaque at best. Granted, I say this as a recovering Catholic.

Years ago for Suck, I followed the John Paul II on his big North American tour and took the papal bull by the horns. Online here.