Up to 50,000 participants, are expect for the counter-demonstration during the Pope's visit to Berlin.

On 22 September, Pope Benedict XVI. his four-day visit to Germany in Berlin begin. An alliance 'The Pope is', which includes over 20 different organizations and many individuals will, make him a' hot reception. "

Even if you do not know how to be the summer in Berlin, one thing is already clear: The September is hot! Because then visited Pope Benedict XVI. Germany is on 22 September also speak at the German Bundestag. has joined the dislike of a large group of people who are in alliance 'The Pope is' on the initiative of the Lesbian and Gay Association of Berlin-Brandenburg (LSVD). Over 20 organizations and many individuals are already supporting the Alliance activities, because, according to the members of the Pope is a misanthropic gender and sexual politics. They limit of people and discriminatory. was therefore in yesterday's alliance meeting a joint resolution adopted. "We reject the Pope as one of the most responsible for the oppression of lesbian, gay and transgender people in the world at the international level, is fighting the Vatican side by side even with brutal dictatorships of human rights of lesbian, gay and transgender people. The decisions of democratically elected parliaments to give legal recognition of same-sex couples revile Joseph Ratzinger as "legalization of evil" and called on Catholics to resist, "according to excerpts in the resolution.

But not only the attitude of the Pope and the Vatican on homosexuality is criticized, but the disregard for the rights of women, such as by banning contraception and abortion. Furthermore, the sex and condom policy, the disabled in many countries massively effective HIV prevention and plunging people into serious conflicts of conscience, or the anti-democratic policies of the Pope, who calls the liberal society is a 'dictatorship of relativism'. So he did, for example, the Pius brothers back into the church, although in their series Holocaust deniers find they reject liberal democracy and call for the criminalization of same-sex relationships.

This criticism was shared by many devout Catholics, to invite the organizers to support the protest. "Raise the aspirations of the Pope's own dogma to state standards in other countries, we oppose our resistance," says the LSVD and expected at the demonstration on the day of the Pope's visit to Berlin, 22 September, up to 50,000 participants. The authorities declared the demonstration had already been approved but not yet. Interested persons are of course welcome at the next meeting on 5 participate in May in Berlin. Pre-registration by mail is requested.

Source: Gaywien.at