A leading Catholic figure has blamed Britain's gay rights movement for the UK's social, religious and political problems, this week.
Edmund Adamus, a leading adviser to the Archbishop of Westminster,
blamed abortion and gay equality for turning Britain into a "selfish,
hedonistic wasteland" which has become "the geopolitical epicentre of
the culture of death".
He also suggested pro-gay legislation had turned
Britain into a country which persecutes Catholics in the same way Saudi Arabia,
China and Pakistan persecute Christians.
According to The Telegraph, Adamus told Zenit, a Catholic news agency: "Whether we like it or not,
as British citizens and residents of this country ... Britain, and in
particular London, has been and is the geopolitical epicentre of the culture
of death."
"Our laws and lawmakers for over 50 years have been the most
permissively anti-life and progressively anti-family and marriage, in
essence one of the most anti-Catholic landscapes, culturally speaking –
more than even those places where Catholics suffer open persecution."
He added that: "permissive laws advancing the 'gay' agenda" were one
example of how Britain had become such a "wasteland".
The comments come as public reaction to Pope Benedict XVI's state-funded visit reaches fever pitch.
Peter Tatchell's eagerly-anticipated Pope documentary will be broadcast
on 13 September – three days before the pontiff's State Visit to
Britain.
