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	Spanish Bishop Denies Equating Homosexuality with Child Molestation Earth Times January 23, 2008 http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/177271,spanish-bishop-denies-equating- homosexuality-with-child-molestation.html Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain - A Spanish Catholic bishop who linked homosexuality with child molestation has retracted his statement, saying he did not intend to compare the two, press reports said Wednesday. "I have not in any way compared, nor wanted to compare, nor do compare homosexuality with the abuse of minors," Tenerife bishop Bernardo Alvarez told a Canary Islands television station on Tuesday. "The abuse of minors is morally a very serious sin and judicially it is a crime," he explained. Alvarez made headlines nearly a month ago by linking homosexuality with paedophilia and by saying that some children desired and possibly even sought out sexual abuse. "Homosexuality harms society, and we will pay for it," he said, adding that most homosexuals lived out their sexual leanings as if they were addicts. Spain's governing Socialists (PSOE) criticized the comments as inappropriate and irresponsible. Alvarez told the television station he had been misunderstood and misinterpreted.
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