Don’t worry, gays are still horrible sinners

[n2doc]

By Mark Morford

Just to be clear, just to make sure you don’t get the wrong idea and think that somehow the Catholic church might, just might be shifting ever so slightly in the direction of love and tolerance toward gays, toward supporting alternative family structures, toward progress and light and allowing sexually active heathen liberal sluts (like you!) to walk around the place free of shame and guilt, here is a throng of old, curdled bishops to set you straight.

Hear this now: The church ain’t budging, all right? Time’s Elizabeth Dias and the Religion News Service both report (and the AP backs it up) that many of the more conservative bishops currently attending the “Synod on the Family,” a two-year drudge-fest in which a 200-thick gaggle of very grumpy old men who never have sex traipse around in heavy cloaks, debating aspects of modern love and life they know almost nothing about – many of these bishops were none too happy with recent reports that the church, given Pope Francis’ hey-now, heal-the-world vibe, might be shifting tone toward a more accepting stance on gays.

In the words of the church’s angry resident God: “As if.”

The document that caused all the furor, called a Relatio post disceptationem, which I believe translates as “sit down and shut up, you pervert heathens” (my Latin might be a little rusty) was merely meant as a conversation starter. A tentative idea. What’s more, the “Welcoming homosexual persons” section of the relatio was just a tiny hunk, one of 58 sections. It doesn’t mean much.

Got that? Not doctrine. Not proscriptive. Just a meager thought. And, according to many of the more conservative bishops, a lousy one, at that.

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http://blog.sfgate.com/morford/2014/10/16/gays-are-still-sinners/

[world wide wally]

1. I know there's a "rhymes with" joke in their somewhere

[bullwinkle428]

2. Papa Francesco has mad skills in "3-card monte".

[n2doc]

6. He is an expert in getting people to hear what they want to hear

rather than what is actually said.

[demigoddess]

3. you are listening to people who

never lived life, never had children, live and talk only with people who agree with them all the time, are put on pedestals and treated as oracles of all things etc etc. These guys are the last ones that should be listened to. Actually I think they should be ritually ignored. Every time they speak, people should say "was that a gust of wind I hear?"

[Arugula Latte]

4. I'm amazed that people still support this institution.

The church has been wrong on everything for centuries -- ask Galileo. Why would anyone put any stock into anything it says? Why support such a corrupt organization?

The same can be said for many, many other "faith" institutions. Religion is just a racket.

[hunter]

5. So are couples who use birth control.

Fundamentalists, conservatives, (whatever you want to call them), got to have sins. Without sins there can be no punishment.

Without sins and punishment the sex they have in their little dark closets isn't exciting and they don't have anyone to loathe and hate. Without the loathing and hating their lives become utterly empty and desolate. They have nothing else.

[jwirr]

7. In the eyes of the church. There are a lot of us in that boat: those who have had an abortion, those

of us who are divorced, gays, etc. Life goes on.