Did you realize that efforts to legalize gay marriage are part of a new "ideology of evil"? That's the judgment of Pope John Paul II in his most recent book. Apparently it isn't enough to categorize it with the "culture of death," so a new rhetorical phrase had to be found.

Reuters reports

In one section about the role of lawmakers, the Pope takes another swipe at gay marriages when he refers to "pressures" on the European Parliament to allow them. "It is legitimate and necessary to ask oneself if this is not perhaps part of a new ideology of evil, perhaps more insidious and hidden, which attempts to pit human rights against the family and against man," he writes.

The Advice Goddess comments:

This is so sick, but so over-the-top, it's almost funny. Let's take a glance "the ideology of evil" -- two people, who happen to be of the same sex, who want to make the same lifelong, legal commitment to each other that two people of different sexes are able to do. The guy who bought my old Mercedes is gay. He bought it because his boyfriend needs their Scion to drive their adopted child to school. Do you see Satan in this picture? Or is it in some old man, head of the church that's spent, probably centuries, shuffling around pedophile priests?

It's pretty sad to think that two people who love one another and want to marry should be categorized as part of an "ideology of evil" simply because they want to do what everyone around them is doing.

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