POPE RELATES LAWS ON GAY MARRIAGE/ADOPTION TO ATTEMPT AT COMMUNIST-LIKE UTOPIA

The Pope said, "In the fight for the family, the very notion of being – of what being human really means – is being called into question. The question of the family is the question of what it means to be a man, and what it is necessary to do to be true men."

The Pope agreed with France's chief Rabbi Gilles Bernheim, who has spoken out against gay marriage,  referring to Bernheim's work on the falseness of gender theories.

"Bernheim has shown in a very detailed and profoundly moving study that the attack we are currently experiencing on the true structure of the family, made up of father, mother, and child, goes much deeper," the Pope said.

The Pope said of feminist gender theorist Simone de Beauvoir's view that sex was no longer an element of nature but a social role people chose for themselves is a "... profound falsehood."

The defense of the family, the Pope said, "is about man himself. And it becomes clear that when God is denied, human dignity also disappears."

The Vatican's newspaper described laws on gay marriage as an attempt at a communist-like utopia. a day after tens of thousands of demonstrators turned out in France to support legalizing both marriages and adoption for gay couples.