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sobriqueThe story of the day:
Pope in attack on UK equality law
In which the Pope declares that being gay is against natural law, and that right thinking catholics should be discriminating against them.
See, my problem isn't that he's an idiot exactly. Well, ok. It is that he's an idiot. But also that he's in charge of the Catholic church. He's no closer to God than anyone else is, because he was elected by other men, who I daresay are similarly bigoted - I mean, why else would you elect someone to represent you.
But ... why does his word carry so much weight therefore? I mean, lets have a religous election by all means, where we get all the candidates to go stand out in a thunderstorm, and the one struck by lightning is made Pope. At least there we have some basis for the whole process not being perverted by corruption, bias and bigotry.
I mean, this one - he's an idiot, but he's an idiot put there by the collective dogma of the Catholic faith. That really isn't all that good a reflection, y'know?
I respect your right to believe - or not - and to choose which faith you practise (although, I'm usually open to debating the subject). Pretty much don't care, until the consequences of that start to hurt other people - I do not believe that 'because of my religion' is allowed to be an excuse for violating a law, nor is it an excuse for being discriminatory.
Pope in attack on UK equality law
In which the Pope declares that being gay is against natural law, and that right thinking catholics should be discriminating against them.
See, my problem isn't that he's an idiot exactly. Well, ok. It is that he's an idiot. But also that he's in charge of the Catholic church. He's no closer to God than anyone else is, because he was elected by other men, who I daresay are similarly bigoted - I mean, why else would you elect someone to represent you.
But ... why does his word carry so much weight therefore? I mean, lets have a religous election by all means, where we get all the candidates to go stand out in a thunderstorm, and the one struck by lightning is made Pope. At least there we have some basis for the whole process not being perverted by corruption, bias and bigotry.
I mean, this one - he's an idiot, but he's an idiot put there by the collective dogma of the Catholic faith. That really isn't all that good a reflection, y'know?
I respect your right to believe - or not - and to choose which faith you practise (although, I'm usually open to debating the subject). Pretty much don't care, until the consequences of that start to hurt other people - I do not believe that 'because of my religion' is allowed to be an excuse for violating a law, nor is it an excuse for being discriminatory.
