Gay Marriage Destructive to Society, Ratzinger Says.

The article looks at comments made by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, regarding gay marriage. Recent legislative proposals for gay marriage are part of a larger modern rupture between sexuality and fertility, he said. They mark a radical departure from the conviction that the union between a man and a woman guarantees the future of humanity. Cardinal Ratzinger made his comments in an interview published on November 19, 2004, in the Roman newspaper "La Repubblica." A struggle exists and we must defend religious freedom against the imposition of an ideology which is presented as if it were the only voice of rationality, when it is only the expression of a 'certain' rationalism.