REGARDING the Pope’s unprecedented attack on the British government for  pursuing “unjust” equality laws in regards to homosexuals: I commend Pope Benedict XVI for condemning the proposed U.K. Equality Bill which is contrary to “natural law”.

The primary goal of homosexuals in “coming out” is to change society’s rejection of homosexual activity and lifestyle into gradual, even if reluctant, acceptance.

The sole purpose of the U.K. Equality legislation is to criminalize the Bible and use the threat of federal prosecutions and long jail sentences to silence Christians from expressing their Biblically-based religious belief that homosexual conduct is a sin. It elevates those persons who engage in deviant sexual behaviors, including pedophiles, to a special protected class of persons as a matter of federal law and policy. Herein lies the real discrimination.

The Bible clearly and unequivocally condemns homosexual acts. They are contrary to natural law. Further, no scientific study has found a gay gene, gay DNA, or gay center of the brain. Definitive studies show that there are much higher rates of psychiatric illness, such as depression, suicide attempts and drug abuse among homosexuals than among the general population.

The Christian and scientific approach to modern-day homosexuality must distinguish between the respect due to persons and the necessary repudiation of any exalted ideology of homosexuality.
With respectful and cordial best wishes I remain,