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| No one is perfect... | | Date Created: Apr 04, 2005, 08:55 AM |
Just as all the adoration and praise of the Great Communicator left a nasty taste in the back of my mouth, I can't quite wrap my head around the revisionism that has already begun about the Pope.
First of all, I'm not Catholic, so maybe there is something I just don't get. I see the people in St. Peter's crying and I think to myself, "I don't think there's a single world figure who I'd cry for if he or she died today." I'm not some inhuman monster, but I didn't know the guy, didn't buy any of his albums, and wasn't a fan of his work in general. I'm sorry people are sad to see him go, I feel sorry for his friends (Does he have family? I'm sure his folks are gone by now, but any close relatives? A Papal Cousin?)
But the guy hasn't exactly been full of sunshine and light for my kinda people:
"It is legitimate and necessary to ask oneself if this is not perhaps part of a new ideology of evil, perhaps more insidious and hidden, which attempts to pit human rights against the family and against man." Pope John Paul II, referring to same-sex marriage.
"Allowing children to be adopted by persons living in such [same-sex] unions would actually mean doing violence to these children, in the sense that their condition of dependency would be used to place them in an environment that is not conducive to their full human development. This is gravely immoral."
"Legal recognition of homosexual unions or placing them on the same level as marriage would mean not only the approval of deviant behavior...but would also obscure basic values which belong to the common inheritance of humanity.... "To vote in favor of a law so harmful to the common good is gravely immoral."
"The Holy See . . . considers that it is necessary above all to combat this disease in a responsible way by increasing prevention, notably through education about respect of the sacred value of life and formation of the correct practice of sexuality, which presupposes chastity and fidelity." (The Vatican's explanation about why it forbids the use of condoms to combat AIDS.)
And of course, the quotes go on and on and on...
Every time a gay person is interviewed about anything on television, on the radio, or in the newspaper, the media always provides some bigot "for balance." Too bad that "balance" only works one way. |
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