Allied Forces Liberated All But Gays From Nazi Death Camps

In eastern Alsace France, up a winding road from the village of Natzwiller, the Nazis built a labor camp, Natzweiler-Struthof, the only concentration camp on French soil. The inmates originally were German who were to supply labor for building V-2 factories in man-made caves dug out of the Vosges Mountains. The prisoners would live in the cold, damp tunnels as they built them.
1943 - Natzweiler-Struthof was expanded by the Nazis with the installation of a gas chamber and crematory for the mass killing of Jews, Gypsies, and gays from Holland, Belgium, and France.
Under Paragraph 175 of the German legal code, male homosexuality was punished by confinement to concentration camps, but not female lesbianism. After 1943, male homosexuals were forced to wear a pink triangle and were sent to the death camps.
Gays were continually exposed to the terror of the SS but also the latent prejudices of the rest of the camp population. The culminating points of their maltreatment in Buchenwald were the use of homosexuals in experiments to develop immunization against typhus fever and the attempt by an SS doctor to ''cure'' homosexuality through the implantation of sexual hormones.
The Americans did not repeal Paragraph 175 (the Nazi law that allowed for the confinement of gays) and while Allied Forces liberated all the surviving camp prisoners with one exception, homosexual inmates. They were relocated from the camps to other prisons. (SS doctors tried to cure gays by forced experiments. History does seem to repeat itself at least in some churches. Wonder if they studied the Nazi's findings when coming up with their "little experiments?"
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Pope Gets Website- Pope2You

The Vatican announced their new papal Facebook app yesterday.
Part of a new site called Pope2You, the app allows facebooking Catholics to send each other virtual postcards featuring pictures and sayings of the former Nazi Benedict XVI.
Pope2You also offers a papal wiki, a link to the new Vatican YouTube channel, and an iPhone app that lets users receive updates on papal pronouncements. The Vatican made clear that the holy father himself would not have a Facebook profile.
Though the Vatican has had its own website for almost a decade, Pope2You is the result of a papal call put out back in March to engage the digital generation. Don't expect a Tweet from the pope anytime soon. The new site, which is fronted by two videos of the former Nazi Benedict, has already drawn concern that the pope will be "lowering" himself by including the YouTube channel. In response, an archbishop explained that Benedict XVI's intention is to be "where people meet." (lowering himself by being on you tube??? Unlike those that lowered themselves onto young boys??? Tell me father, which is lower?)

Article from various catholic sites

Former Nazi Warns Against The Misuse Of Religion

Former Nazi, Pope Benedict XVI has warned against the misuse of religion for political ends, in a speech to Muslim leaders on the second day of his visit to Jordan. (What? Misuse of religion? Who the fu*k is he to warn, didn't he start it?)
Speaking in the King Hussein Mosque in Amman, he argued that religion was a force for good, but its "manipulation" caused divisions and even violence. Hello, hello, pot calling kettle black.

(BBC)