POPE SPEAKS AGAINST GAY MARRIAGE IN CANADA: From the Associated Press

Pope John Paul II kept up his campaign against gay marriage yesterday, telling the ambassador from Canada -- where three provinces allow same-sex couples to wed -- that such unions create a "false understanding" of marriage.

In past months, the Pope has urged authorities to stop approving gay marriages, saying that they degrade the true sense of marriage.

The pontiff spoke yesterday to the new Canadian Ambassador to the Holy See, Donald Smith.

"The institution of marriage necessarily entails the complementarity of husbands and wives who participate in God's creative activity through the raising of children," he said, according to the text of the speech released by the Vatican.

"Spouses thereby ensure the survival of society and culture, and rightly deserve specific and categorical legal recognition by the State.

"Any attempts to change the meaning of the word 'spouse' contradict right reason: legal guarantees, analogous to those granted to marriage, cannot be applied to unions between persons of the same sex without creating a false understanding of the nature of marriage.''

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