So, it’s been a while since we posted on here, which may signal the increasing busyness of Caucus’s head blogger (something that won’t end any time soon now that she’s working!). But for now, something caught our eye that just couldn’t go without comment.
It’s the Pope. Ah, Popey. You always have something odd and controversial to say, don’t you? From releasing a Ten Commandments of ethical driving to praising Muslim-slaughtering Crusaders, we just never know what sort of wacky or offensive thing you’re going to say next. And you haven’t disappointed us this week!
Yes, we’re happy that you’re still talking about environmental protection. That’s a good thing. Way to go! But did you really have to equate saving the Earth with saving humans from ‘gender ambiguity’ – that is, for you, homosexuality and transsexuality? (Of course, feminism also argues for the same thing, but apparently it’s not even on your radar, just the gay bogeyman.)
Gender theories, he said, led to man’s “auto-emancipation” from creation and Creator. “Rain forests deserve, yes, our protection but the human being… does not deserve it less,” he said.
Right. Embracing the unique gifts you’re born with is spitting in G*d’s face. Forcing yourself to fit into a narrow box of what “your” gender is supposed to be in whatever cultural context you happen to live in – now, that’s holy obedience with divine will! It all makes so much sense!
Thank G*d for Vladimir Luxuria, the former Italian MP who happens to be transsexual, and who can speak well to the dangerous implications of such hurtful comments:
“I’m someone who was born as male and has a spiritual and female soul, and it’s contradictory that a Pope just thinks of people just made as flesh and not made of a spiritual aspect.”
Now, Pope Benny, we know that you’re going to get, well, reamed for this in progressive press. Sooner or later someone will undoubtedly observe that a man who never touches a woman and runs around in big dresses and showy robes might seem rather like a pot calling the kettle transsexual. And as funny as such lines would be to make at your expense, we won’t stoop to that level.
As Christians with hearts open to the working of the Spirit in all persons, we are very disappointed in you. But, sadly, we aren’t all that surprised. Why don’t you try shocking us by addressing true issues of faith and justice for a good long while, instead of siding with bigotry and prejudice?
