more on the Hitler Youth Pope and homosexuality

There are claims that Catholic explorations of faith and the nature of humanity are behind his latest assault on homosexuals and transsexuals. Perhaps this clarification from the Daily Mail will help dispel this lame attempt to moderate the full horror of what the Pope is up to:

'This month the Vatican opposed a proposed UN declaration, backed by all 27 European Union states, calling for an end to the practice of criminalising and punishing people for their sexual orientation.

The declaration was seen as an important condemnation of countries such as Iran and Saudi Arabia, where homosexuality can be punished by death.' Daily Mail (23 Dec 2008)

In other words, the Vatican believes in the criminalisation of people for their sexual orientation. (Amazingly, it no longer supports capital punishment.) Compared to the evils visited on the world by the Catholic church over the centuries, homosexuals seems a remarkably benign 'group', not to mention a very large one if the received estimates of people predisposed to homosexuality are reliable. Is it not time to stop respecting the Catholic church (and other churches similarly disposed) and treat it as the divisive, cruel, power-obsessed institution it really is?

reactions to the homophobic Pope

In my last blog I commented on the Pope's repulsive homophobia. Since writing this I have read many reactions in the press and on the net, a large number of which begin 'Gay and lesbian groups disgusted, etc.' This is all very well, but surely the whole community should be repulsed by the Pope's neo-Nazi comments, not just the subjects of his disgusting views. I would feel greatly relieved to read comments like 'The Prime minister and members of Parliament are disgusted, etc.' Casting the burden onto the oppressed groups is a failure of morality. It's like saying 'Jews and Jewish groups horrified at the incarceration and murder of Jews in concentration camps'.

the Pope is disgusting

At his end-of-year address to senior Vatican staff 'Pope Benedict XVI . . . said that saving humanity from homosexual or transsexual behaviour is just as important as saving the rainforest from destruction.' [BBC] So instead of a message of love and compassion, instead of words of comfort for those without jobs this Christmas due to the economic crisis, instead of a call for peace in the world's many war zones, this despicable man has come out with a message of bigotry and prejudice. Eradicating a huge group of people, or at least forcing them out of sight (people do not choose to be homosexual, 'God' decides for them in the womb), from the planet is as important as saving the forests. With so little evidence in the Bible, especially the parts dealing with Christ's teaching, to support his pronouncements on homosexuality and transsexual behaviour, we must assume that he is simply falling back on the entrenched homophobia and the urge to control human sexuality that have characterised Catholic teaching down the centuries. It is becoming easier by the day to discover what this man learnt from the Nazis.

His contribution, direct or indirect, to the already superabundant intolerance and hatred in the world makes him an evil man. The sooner people realise this the better. When they do, I hope they will line up outside Catholic churches around the world to denounce their Pope, bishops, and priests.

This Pope is disgusting.