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  • Pope Calls Gay Marriage Part of 'Ideology of Evil'

    02/22/2005 12:46:48 PM PST · by Clint N. Suhks · 435 replies · 8,469+ views
    Reuters ^ | Feb, 22, 2005 | Philip Pullella
    ROME (Reuters) - Homosexual marriages are part of "a new ideology of evil" that is insidiously threatening society, Pope John Paul says in a new book published Tuesday. In "Memory and Identity," the Pope also calls abortion a "legal extermination" comparable to attempts to wipe out Jews and other groups in the 20th century. He also reveals that he is convinced the Turkish gunman who shot him in 1981 did not act alone and suggests that the former Communist Bloc may have been behind the plot to kill him. The 84-year-old Pontiff's book, a highly philosophical and intricate work on...