Extreme Papal fallibility

The BBC News website mentioned that Pope Benedict XVI asserted that "saving" humankind from homosexuality is as important as saving the rain forest.

Two points. First is the question of a lecture in sexual morality from a man who was the point man during the last pontificate for the Church's efforts to keep the US pedophilia scandal under wraps and trying accused priests in secret ecclesiastical courts in Rome.

Second is the vastly different levels of scientific foundation for the threat levels involved. There is a scientific consensus that rain forests provide a great deal of the world's oxygen (in addition to being an important carbon sink). The idea that homosexuality is some sort of disorder was been dimissed by the American Psychiatric and American Psychological Associations back in the 70s.