More Popery
Creatures, including humans, "can be protected or endangered", the pope, 82, told the Vatican diplomatic corps in a traditional January address focusing mainly on environmental issues.
"One such attack comes from laws or proposals which, in the name of fighting discrimination, strike at the biological basis of the difference between the sexes," he said, citing "certain countries in Europe or North and South America".
[excerpt from "Pope slams gay marriage", Brisbane Times, 11 January 2009.]
I am thrilled. Here with the recent move by Portugal to legalize gay marriage (see, e.g.), I thought we'd reached the stage where one more progressive country recognized loving and enduring relationships between people of the same gender.
But, if the Pope can be believed, it would seem that countries around the world, without telling me, have been outlawing heterosexual procreation, banning mixed-gender marriages, and forcing positively everyone into fruitless, same-gender unions. Such nirvana!
Does he really, really believe that the human population is threatened with extinction because some of us are not busy making babies as fast as we can? Doesn't he realize that the "what if everyone did that?" argument (about anything!) was passe even in my youth? Does he really believe that one more same-gender marriage might topple the apparently synthetic heterosexual facade and cause all straight people to come over to the forbidden dark side? I guess the pope's job description calls for being able to believe lots of unbelievable things.
As I've pointed out before, we (i.e., the homosexual menace) are quite capable of reproducing as necessary to save the species. Why, we don't even have to enjoy it to get the job done!
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on Tuesday, 12 January 2010 at 23.02
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His holiness either spoke imprecisely or it's been too long since his undergraduate studies. The biological basis of the difference between the sexes remains what it is, whether civil law provides for heterosexual marriages only, hetero and same-sex marriages or no marriages at all.
I see the pope also said, ""For man, the path to be taken cannot be determined by caprice or wilfulness, but must rather correspond to the structure willed by the Creator."
This begs the question, "Benedict, what makes you so sure gays and lesbians aren't part of the Creator's game plan, and thus their marriages aren't somehow, even if mysteriously, part of the structure He willed? You do believe in mysteries, don't you?"