The following is not intended as Catholic-bashing. Far from it actually. But when hypocrisy rears its ugly head…
Pope Uses Easter To Attack Gay Families
by Malcolm Thornberry, 365Gay.com European Bureau Chief
April 14, 2006
(Vatican City) In marking the Stations of the Cross during Good Friday observances in Rome Pope Benedict XVI called for the “filth” that surrounds society to be cleansed and said the world is in the grip of “a diabolical pride aimed at eliminating the family”.
“Lord, we have lost our sense of sin,” he said. “Today a slick campaign of propaganda is spreading an inane apologia of evil, a senseless cult of Satan, a mindless desire for transgression, a dishonest and frivolous freedom, exalting impulsiveness, immorality and selfishness as if they were new heights of sophistication.”
Although the Pontiff did not specifically name same-sex relationships the message was clear, less than a week after Italian voters elected a leftist government committed to recognizing gay and lesbian couples.
In a much publicized event less than two weeks before the election the pope used a meeting with the conservative coalition to launch an attack on the leftists for their support of a domestic partner law.
“Attempts to make [marriage] juridically equivalent to radically different forms of unions which in reality harm it and contribute to its destabilization,” the pope declared.
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http://www.365gay.com/Newscon06/04/041406pope.htm
.He wasn’t of course but he could have been describing the behavior of a number of his predecessors.
Let’s take a peek at the “filth” associated with some of the previous Vicars of Christ (try not to confuse this with recent GOP activity):
* selling dispensations
* participation in orgys
* pedophilia
* covering for perpetrators of child sexual abuse
* engaging prostitutes of all sexes
* incest
* torture
* bribery
* nepotism
Keep casting those stones from your glass house Benedict, however much anyone in your position has lost any moral authority to do so.
It’s truly time for penance in sackcloth-and-ashes for you and your brotherhood.
That and a megadose of begging for forgiveness, of seeking absolution and mercy from the children, the women, the dispossessed, the different–all of those to whom Jesus performed caring and loving acts.
Jesus was neither a politician nor a hypocrite, unlike the many Popes throughout history.
