© ReutersPope Benedict XVI
"The question of the family ... is the question of what it means to be a man, and what it is necessary to do to be true men," he said.
The Pope spoke of the "falseness" of gender theories and cited at length France's chief Rabbi Gilles Bernheim, who has spoken out against gay marriage.
"Bernheim has shown in a very detailed and profoundly moving study that the attack we are currently experiencing on the true structure of the family, made up of father, mother, and child, goes much deeper," he said.
He cited feminist gender theorist Simone de Beauvoir's view to the effect that one is not born a woman, but one becomes so - that sex was no longer an element of nature but a social role people chose for themselves.
"The profound falsehood of this theory and of the anthropological revolution contained within it is obvious," he said.
The defence of the family, the Pope said, "is about man himself. And it becomes clear that when God is denied, human dignity also disappears."
On Monday, the Vatican's newspaper described laws on gay marriage as an attempt at a communist-like "utopia", a day after tens of thousands of demonstrators turned out in France to support legalising both marriages and adoption for gay couples.
France's parliament is to debate the government-backed "marriage for all" bill early next year.
With President Francois Hollande's Socialists enjoying a strong majority, the bill is expected to pass despite vehement opposition from the right and religious groups.
Source: Agence France-Presse
dressed in a frock and being leader of a world of peadophiles he has al the merits to speak about man and God - the importance of producing stereotype families and creating further impoverishment.
Its very simple - gays want too much, act overtly and expect the heterosexuals to defend them for these excesses - I dont see it having to do with being homosexuals rather more to do with being "gay"...if homosexuals want to get married, well, form their own religion, churches and political parties...get married in a civll manner instead of this ridiculous concept of a church of other faiths that dont want them...if they want rights then look for them within a society of the their own kind because like it or not there are those offended and those that are afeared by all this and it really lacks integrity by whole male/female gay movement to expect that they should be excepted because there are a lot of people around the world also not being accepted because they are of a different religion. Grow up and get a life.
I am niether for nor against but it becomes another imposition...we ALL have fundamental rights...we should all know them...some groups take more rights than others...ergo the serious problems with peadophilia...the pope is just a human being representing a massive lie...its all about control and manipulation...people with different sexual preferrences have been with us since early civilisations...so whats new? mainline religions and perverse political entities abused homosexuals and imprisoned them for their prefference...so whats new about society?...they are killing kids in their hundreds by drones and air attacks and gays worry about getting married in a church!!!!!!!!
For heavens sake...get a life and get some consciousness.