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Gays and Heaven: A Cardinal Clarifies . . . Sort of
By David Gibson - Politics DailyThe Vatican cardinal whose comments about homosexuals being barred from heaven have sparked quite a furor has said his remarks were misrepresented. Although Cardinal Javier Lozano Barragan's clarification doesn't really get him out of the hole he dug on Wednesday, when he told a Rome news outlet that "transsexuals and homosexuals will not enter into the Kingdom of God." Cardinal Barragan, a Mexican churchman who this year retired as the Vatican's chief spokesman on health care issues, had justified his position by noting that "I do not say this, but Saint Paul does" -- a reference to the first ...
Vatican Cardinal on Gays and Transsexuals: 'No Heaven for You!'
By David Gibson - Politics DailyCardinal Javier Lozano Barragan, a Mexican cardinal who this year retired as the Vatican's chief spokesman on health care issues, including AIDS, has given a pointed interview to a Rome magazine in which he says that homosexuals and transgendered people will not go to heaven, and he cites Saint Paul by way of backup. In the interview with the aptly named magazine Pontifex, Barragan begins by talking about abortion, saying that even the morning-after pill, as an abortifacient, is comparable to "an assassination." Each abortion, he says, "is a crime" and as such "merits punishment." The ...
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