Pope Benedict, speaking just 10 days ahead of Italy's national elections, lashed out against gay marriage and abortion on Thursday and said the Church had the right to speak out on thorny political issues.
Opposition centre-left politicians who advocate some legal recognition of the rights of unmarried heterosexual and homosexual couples accused the Pope of meddling in politics.
Addressing lawmakers from the European People's Party (EPP), Benedict said the Church's position on such issues was "non-negotiable".
He said the Church had a right and duty to defend "the recognition and promotion of the natural structure of the family as a union between a man and a woman based on marriage".
It would oppose "attempts to make it juridically equivalent to radically different forms of union which in reality harm it and contribute to its destabilisation", he added.
Opposition politicians slammed the Pope's words on abortion and gay marriage as political interference.
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one has to wonder how the pope would feel being followed by some gay boys getting it on....prolly seen it in the alter boy change room already anyway
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