Valletta, Malta, Jan 12, 2009 / 21:53 pm
A Maltese professor and political candidate, citing his outrage at Pope Benedict XVI’s reported comments on the environment and homosexuality, has excommunicated himself from the Church.
Dr Ing. Patrick Attard, the first openly homosexual candidate for parliament in Malta, also criticized the Holy See’s opposition to a proposed U.N. resolution calling for the decriminalization of homosexual relationships, the Malta Independent reports.
On December 22, Pope Benedict delivered his Christmas address to the Curia. Throughout the course of several paragraphs, he said:
“When the Church speaks of the nature of the human being as man and woman and asks that this order of creation be respected, it is not the result of an outdated metaphysic.