Opposition To Catholic Activism
In November 2009, Besen wrote an opinion piece in the San Francisco Bay Times arguing that the gay community has a "gigantic Pope problem", and that under the leadership of Benedict XVI, the Vatican has become an enemy of liberalism, modernity and LGBT rights. He was responding to a recent ecumenical manifesto known as the Manhattan Declaration, which calls upon Christians to oppose laws and policies that attempt to undermine their private religious consciences.
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“A man with your experience in affairs must have seen cause to appreciate the futility of opposition to the moral sentiment. However feeble the sufferer and however great the oppressor, it is in the nature of things that the blow should recoil upon the aggressor. For God is in the sentiment, and it cannot be withstood.”
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