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Tue 12 Dec 2008As world leaders talk peace, pope does opposite
OPINION:FIGHTING HOMOPHOBIA is as vital as saving the rainforests. That is not exactly what Pope Benedict XVI may have been hinting at last week, but let's run with this slightly amended version of those newspaper headlines reporting - or interpreting - the pope's address to the Curia just before Christmas.
"Rainforests deserve, yes, our protection, but the human being . . . does not deserve it less," he said.
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