According to the Pope:
"Everything that serves to weaken the family based on the marriage of a man and woman, everything that directly or indirectly stands in the way of its openness to the responsible acceptance of new life ... constitutes an objective obstacle on the road to peace," Benedict writes.
If I wasn't convinced that Pope Ratz is completely insane before, he's just convinced me that he is today.
The issue of gay marriage has nothing whatsoever to do with the conflicts that incessantly bubble around the Middle East, or numerous civil wars in Africa. Give me a break. In fact, I would go as far as to point out that the countries that permit gay marriage are among the most politically stable in the world. Even South Africa is relatively stable these days - and it's probably the most borderline of the states that allow gay marriage.
Given how many of the wars currently bubbling around in the world are based on either religious or ethnic grounds, one has to wonder just where this Pope gets off trying to dictate to the rest of us how we are obliged to live. It seems to me that we would get a great deal further if we actually tried to understand each other as human beings instead of trying to claim that any one faith has a monopoly on being "correct".
No comments:
Post a Comment