Pope Escalates Anti-Gay Marriage Holy War, Compares Gay Marriage To Polygamy

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Pope Escalates Anti-Gay Marriage Holy War, Compares Gay Marriage To Polygamy
by David Badash on November 13, 2012


After three U.S. states voted to extend the institution of marriage to same-sex couples, and a fourth refused to enshrine a ban into its constitution, and on the footsteps of Spain upholding its same-sex marriage laws and France pushing forward with theirs, the Vatican escalated Pope Benedict XVI‘s international anti-gay marriage holy war.

“In a front-page article in Saturday’s Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano, the Holy See sought to frame itself as the lone voice of courage in opposing initiatives to give same-sex couples legal recognition,” the AP reported in The Huffington Post:

In a separate Vatican Radio editorial, the pope’s spokesman asked sarcastically why gay marriage proponents don’t now push for legal recognition for polygamous couples as well.

Catholic teaching holds that homosexuals should be respected and treated with dignity but that homosexual acts are “intrinsically disordered.” The Vatican also opposes same-sex marriage, insisting on the sanctity of marriage between a man and woman as the foundation for society.

The AP adds:

The article insisted that Catholics were putting up a valiant fight to uphold church teaching in the face of “politically correct ideologies invading every culture of the world” that are backed by institutions like the United Nations, which last year passed a non-binding resolution condemning anti-gay discrimination.

“The church is called to present itself as the lone critic of modernity, the only check … to the breakup of the anthropological structures on which human society was founded,” it said.

Vatican spokesman the Rev. Federico Lombardi, for his part, said gays can have their rights protected by means other than through legal marital recognition. He stressed that children should have a right to say they have a father and a mother.

“If not, then why not contemplate freely chosen polygamy, and naturally so as to not discriminate, polyandry?” he asked sarcastically. Polyandry is when a woman has two or more husbands.

Noting “what’s most laughably ridiculous about the Vatican’s latest outburst against LGBT rights is that it just can’t let go of one of the oldest, dumbest arguments against them in the world,” Salon’s Mary Elizabeth Williams has a few thoughts for Pope Benedict: ..................(more)

The complete piece is at: http://thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/pope-escalates-anti-gay-marriage-holy-war-compares-gay-marriage-to-polygamy/politics/2012/11/13/53617

[justiceischeap]

1. It's the time honored slippery slope argument

When that doesn't work, it's the animal comparisons that are next. "Next thing ya know, people are going to want to marry animals or kids." It always goes there.

[brooklynite]

3. Well, it's not like the CHURCH would ever support polygamous marriage...

[Indydem]

2. So what?

Polygamy, polyandry, gay marriage, straight marriage, no marriage.

Who CARES??

Let people be free to do whatever they want. FREEDOM.

If it is sinful, and their is a God and a hell, then they will burn in hell. Why is it government's job to give a shit?

[Dawson Leery]

4. The Pope's Cardinals and Bishops must register as foreign agents.

[Arugula Latte]

5. "The church is called to present itself as the lone critic of modernity"

Yeah, we all know your Church longs for the good old days of medieval times, you sick creepy freaks.

[closeupready]

7. Gotta love that Wizard of Oz imagery and syntax.

The pomposity of it is ridiculously funny.

[Arugula Latte]

9. Wizard of Oz -- That's a good way to put it

So many similarities there, except it turns out the Wizard wasn't such a bad guy in the end, but the Pope definitely is.

[Ken Burch]

15. Yeah...the good old days...days like THIS:

[mike_c]

6. whoa! gay polygamy!

Who gives a rat's buttocks what the pope has to say about this or anything?

[MineralMan]

8. Roman Catholic dogma on this issue and

the issue of reproductive choice, especially as it applies to non-Catholics, is "intrinsically disordered." The Pope is full of crap on those issues, and is not Emperor of the World. May his lips speak no more of this.

[bayareamike]

10. I wish the Vatican would be thrown into the dustbin of history where it belongs. nt

[hifiguy]

11. Let me take yez to school, Ratzi.

In the United States, and in most developed countries around the world, one can choose to be married in a civil ceremony - before a judge - or in a religious ceremony in which the participants presume that an all-powerful Invisible Sky Wizard or perhaps the Flying Spaghetti Monster or the Invisible Pink Unicorn or some benevolent cosmic entity is consecrating the ceremony.

People married before a judge are just as "married" as people who get married in a church or somewhere near a beer volcano. My parents were married by a judge. I worked for a judge who must have married two dozen couples during my time with him. If your particular Invisible Sky Wizard, among the many who have been alleged to exist as the ONLY ISW, doesn't want to observe Teh Awful Geyhz getting hitched, so be it. Believe in whatever benighted bullshit you want to believe in. Gay couples can go find a more enlightened religious organization that puts the whole brotherhood of humanity (including the female half) thing into actual, ya know, practice, or they can hie themselves down to the courthouse and have Judge Jones perform the ceremony.

They will be just as married.

Butt out, Ratzi. Don't you have some child-rapists to transfer somewhere?

[Ken Burch]

12. This is right up there with Benedict's claim that ordaining women is just as evil as pedophilia.

Please God...take the old Hitler Youth alum home soon. He's destroying everything beautiful and worthwhile in your Church. Nothing will be left.

[MineralMan]

13. Let's just shut the whole Roman Catholic Church down,

have a global garage sale to sell everything it owns and then give all the money generated directly to the world's poverty-stricken peoples. Then, we could say that the Roman Catholic Church contributed to ending poverty as its last act, in its death throes.

I'm being serious here, BTW.

Put an end to indefensible dogmatic things like what is described in this thread: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021817890

[Dr. Strange]

14. I got no problem with it.

“If not, then why not contemplate freely chosen polygamy, and naturally so as to not discriminate, polyandry?”

Totally agree--they should be legal.

[we can do it]

16. STFU pope dracula