You've Got to be Carefully Taught

Remarking on the news that the Catholic Church in Rhode Island was to kick off a program to "educate" parishioners about the "dangers" of marriage equality:

[P]eople must be coached into seeing [gays and lesbians who wish to marry] as a threat, since the instinct is to see us as the benign lovers that we truly are.

[Jeremy Hooper, "Just in time for Lent, RI Catholic leaders give up all pretense of church/state separation", Good As You, 26 April 2011.]

Posted on April 26, 2011 at 15.32 by jns · Permalink
In: All, Common-Place Book, Faaabulosity

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  1. Written by rightsaidfred
    on Thursday, 19 May 2011 at 21.36
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    I don't think there is a "natural" acceptance of homosexuality. Historically most communities took procreation seriously, and this didn't leave much dispensation for the non-reproductive. Same-sex is more of a luxury consumption.

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