New Pope Has His Priorities Straight
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Pope Benedict XVI refuses to condemn Islamo-terrorism.
But he doesn't hesitate to condemn gay marriage.
Shame on every practicing gay Catholic, especially in terror-target countries such as the U.S. and U.K., who refuses to renounce and denounce the Vatican. Staying in that church may well be the single worst form of self-loathing a gay person can manifest.
POST SCRIPT: Speaking of condemnation, some Roman Catholic cardinals want to refuse baptism to the children of gay couples. For those who believe in Catholic shamanism, that means (perhaps) spending eternity condemned to limbo.
I really wonder sometimes whether most Catholics truly understand just how utterly dumb their religion is.
UPDATE #1A: Israel is also rather perturbed at the Vatican's refusal to condemn Islamo-terror. Go figure.
UPDATE #1B: In response to the comments, I suppose I can accept the idea of a "secular Catholicism" comparable to "secular Judaism" in which those of "Catholic heritage" (?) celebrate, as Damien says, "a tradition rich in art, literature, music, wisdom and heroic lives." I like medieval religious art as much as the next 21st Century gay atheist, but that doesn't mean I have to "tolerate" (their term) today's authoritarian Roman Catholic Church bureaucracy.
But he doesn't hesitate to condemn gay marriage.
Shame on every practicing gay Catholic, especially in terror-target countries such as the U.S. and U.K., who refuses to renounce and denounce the Vatican. Staying in that church may well be the single worst form of self-loathing a gay person can manifest.
POST SCRIPT: Speaking of condemnation, some Roman Catholic cardinals want to refuse baptism to the children of gay couples. For those who believe in Catholic shamanism, that means (perhaps) spending eternity condemned to limbo.
I really wonder sometimes whether most Catholics truly understand just how utterly dumb their religion is.
UPDATE #1A: Israel is also rather perturbed at the Vatican's refusal to condemn Islamo-terror. Go figure.
UPDATE #1B: In response to the comments, I suppose I can accept the idea of a "secular Catholicism" comparable to "secular Judaism" in which those of "Catholic heritage" (?) celebrate, as Damien says, "a tradition rich in art, literature, music, wisdom and heroic lives." I like medieval religious art as much as the next 21st Century gay atheist, but that doesn't mean I have to "tolerate" (their term) today's authoritarian Roman Catholic Church bureaucracy.
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