The Vatican has described gay rights as “special rights” in criticizing an historic United Nations report documenting discriminatory laws and acts of violence against gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people.
According to The Catholic Free Press, Pope Benedict XVI’s permanent observer at the United Nations in Geneva, Archbishop Silvano Tomasi, told the U.N. Human Rights Council considering High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay’s report that the Roman Catholic Church fears that the council is pressuring member states to support gay marriage.
The Vatican “condemns discrimination and violence against any human person, including those who are so targeted because of perceived sexual differences,” Tomasi said.
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