People wonder why the Catholic Church is hemorrhaging both practicing members and clergy. Certainly, the Church's steadfast protection of pedophile priests severely tarnished its reputation in many western countries. Another part of it is that while the world and its inhabitants are entering the 21st century, the Vatican is stuck in the 17th.
Most recently, the Church's leader, Pope Benedict XVI, actually said that saving humanity from homosexual and transexual behavior was as important as protecting the environment.
I understand the Church continues to follow ancient Jewish law that stipulates that both sex and marriage should be done strictly for pro-creation. Got that all you childless married couples out there!
To be say that non-heterosexual behavior was a threat to humanity is both absurd and vile.
I am just one example of someone who was born, raised and confirmed as a Catholic but has consciously after much reflection (not accidentally or because of laziness) stopped practicing because of the Church's moral decrepitude. If you're a man who has consensual sex with another man, you're a threat to humanity. But if you're a man who rapes a young boy, you merit protection. This has been the Church's de facto stance for some time.
The Pope even said that words like gender identity and sexual orientation "create serious uncertainty in the law."
Worse yet were his pathetic weasel words at the end lamely trying to defuse the inevitable controversy. He said that of course "unjust discrimination" against gays should be avoid.
But if gays are the serious threat to humanity that Benedict claims, then shouldn't this threat be eradicated at all costs? What sort of punishment or restriction can possibly be unjust against something as serious as a threat to humanity?
Thanks for your warm inclusiveness this holiday season, Mr. Ratzinger.
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