More paranoia about homosexuality from the Vatican 


The Vatican has once again expressed their paranoid obsession with homosexuality, this time in a perverse little document on feminism. While it might seem, at first glance, that the motivation for this latest missive is simply to reinforce traditional Catholic views on the roles of women, it contains a surprising statement, backed up by no argument or evidence whatsoever, that points to a much different concern: same-sex families and the increasing "normalization" of homosexuality in society. 

According to the Vatican, feminist theory has inspired the idea that same-sex relationships are equally good as hetero relationships: "This theory of the human person, intended to promote prospects for equality of women through liberation from biological determinism, has in reality inspired ideologies which, for example, call into question the family, in its natural two-parent structure of mother and father, and make homosexuality and heterosexuality virtually equivalent, in a new model of polymorphous sexuality."

There is nothing "natural" about a two-parent family structure and this latest document from the Vatican doesn't argue based on observations of nature or any other scientific, objective, evidence. It invokes only its own peculiar interpretation of scripture.

Moreover, the idea that women should (in so far as possible) be freed from the constraints of their sexual biology does not entail an equivalence between homosexuality and heterosexuality. This inference ignores the fact that it was the historically male-dominate heterosexuality that led to the oppression of women that feminism has hoped to correct. Homosexuality, per se, is neutral about the relative roles of men and women. Men and women do not compete with each other in homosexual relationships. In this regard, homosexuality is superior (not equivalent) to heterosexuality.

But, as I already said, the Vatican doesn't argue this point. It pretends that no justification is needed and moves on to formulate a religious view of the roles of men and women based on the mythology of the Bible, beginning, of course, with the mythological stories of human origin in Genesis. The fact that humans actually originated by evolution from apes, which live communally, is just ignored.


"The Vatican is so great…like having a piece of medieval history for us to study right now." — Josh Ferris 

Posted: Saturday - July 31, 2004 at 10:35 AM          

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