Liberal family values threaten humanity: pope

Pope Benedict XVI yesterday warned that liberal family values were threatening the future of humanity, in a veiled reference to homosexual marriage and adoptions by gay couples.
"Policies which undermine the family threaten human dignity and the future of humanity itself," the pontiff said in a speech at the Vatican.
"The family, based on the marriage of a man and a woman ... is not a simple social convention, but rather the fundamental cell of every society," added the 84-year-old pontiff.