Image via WikipediaFrom the gays??? What? Really? We are responsible for the downturn in humanity? Has the Pope been having chats with Fred Phelps?I am amazed and disgusted. I find myself in complete agreement with the headline from Froodie's blog "Pope Benedict incites hatred, misunderstanding and probable bullying and violence.".
While I know a lot of Catholics don't agree with the Church on everything but this does not help in anyway. A lot of elderly people do listen to the Pope for advice and guidance and him saying things like this do not help.
It is a step back for the Church in general. I have a lot of respect for individual priests who hold differing views then the Pope, but this will not help those Catholics who are gay and still hold the Church in high regard.
Other blogs have reacted in various ways to this declaration. Iain Dale thinks the Pope should "Just Join the BNP & Have Done With It". Una of Unarocks points out that the Pope is teaching the wrong stuff and should be concentrating on "Love" a very good point! Also she points out
On one hand, i suppose, you can laugh this stuff off- who gives a fuck? Who cares what an old repressed dude in a wine dress says? Surely if you get pissed off by this it legitimises his statement as something worth listening to? Then on the other hand, this is a man with huge power and influence and a massive willing and listening audience who believes ten per cent of the population is evil.
And I agree with her fully on that point!
I love Joe Scanlon's post title on this issue "Plant a Tree - Shoot a fag" which basically could sum up the Pope's speech to some people!
As the papers point out (Irish Indo and UK Times) "The Catholic Church teaches that while homosexuality is not sinful, homosexual acts are". So they think the fact that you are gay is not sin (yay, therefore not a choice) but we can choose to ignore it! Really? You can ignore the fact that you have fallen in LOVE? I don't think so. Having actually experienced true love for another man, it is an overpowering experience (as it is for anyone I would assume straight or gay) that hits you. It cannot be ignored. Yet this "ancient institution" expects us do so. No thank you! There is reason I CHOOSE to no longer to be considered a Catholic. I CHOOSE no longer to be associated with comments such as this or the on earlier this year from a high ranking Vatican Official that called homosexuality "a deviation, an irregularity, a wound".
An issue that most of these posts and my comments so far are on the issue of transgender which the Pope also tosses into the mix. He opposes Gender Theory and said
"That which is often expressed and understood by the term ‘gender’ in the end amounts to the self-emancipation of the human person from creation and from the Creator," the Pope said.
"Human beings want to do everything by themselves, and to control exclusively everything that regards them. But in this way, the human person lives against the truth, against the Creator Spirit."
Wow! Even Iran is more ahead then the Catholic Church on Transgendered issues when it espousing beliefs such as this.
The Church needs to get a grip and move with the times. The Church is losing membership and it wonders why? The Church has to be seen to approach issues with a modern mindset, something it has failed to do since the election of Pope Benedict XVI in 2005.
I wonder what he will complain about next Christmas? Single mothers?
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