The Pope’s advice to trans people? ‘Accept the body God gave you’

[Fearless]

He wrote: “The acceptance of our bodies as God’s gift is vital for welcoming and accepting the entire world as a gift from the Father and our common home,” the Pope wrote.

The Pope also attacked gender theory, suggesting that trans people are actually just struggling with same-sex attraction.

“For example, I ask myself, if the so-called gender theory is not, at the same time, an expression of frustration and resignation, which seeks to cancel out sexual difference because it no longer knows how to confront it … the removal of difference in fact creates a problem, not a solution.”

“Whereas thinking that we enjoy absolute power over our own bodies turns, often subtly, into thinking that we enjoy absolute power over creation,” he continued.

http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2015/06/19/the-popes-advice-to-trans-people-accept-the-body-god-gave-you/

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Don't forget this next time you think he's a reasonable 21st Century thinker. He is NOT.

[uriel1972]

1. Blah blah blah...

We tell you how to think Blah blah blah...

The Wonderpope lost his gloss in my eyes a long time ago...

No, wait a minute, he never had it...

I remember reading his statements re: lgbt people from before he became pope and didn't expect much.

[rainy]

2. Is he saying that with gay people

they are born being attracted to the same sex not with any flaws in their bodies but transsexuals say there is a definate flaw in the body God gave them that needs to be altered and is that idea just excepting the societal norms placed on gender?

[Downwinder]

3. Tell that to Cheney.

[SusanCalvin]

4. Sigh....

Sooner or later most religious leaders say something that causes me to roll my eyes. He's better than his predecessor, is all I can say.

[Betty Karlson]

7. A potted flower would be better than his predecessor. eom

[SusanCalvin]

8. Yeah, at least a potted flower is decorative. nt

[LostOne4Ever]

5. This is what drives me bonkers about this pope.

[font style="font-family:'Georgia','Baskerville Old Face','Helvetica',fantasy;" size=4 color=teal]His positions are no different in anyway what-so-ever than the last two popes, but because of his wonderful PR management, people make him this great liberal....and HE'S NOT.

He is just as much a homophobe as the last pope and the only things that puts him over Benedict is that he was never an actual Nazi.[/font]

[Betty Karlson]

6. That's bigotry 2.0

we care - about making you feel miserable.

God damn him and his fellow blaspheming Vatican clique to Hell.

[Jamastiene]

9. I get disgusted with people who are otherwise liberal in their views

falling for his two faced method. He will say something like this one week, then the next week he will say something about the right wing. There are some liberals who will fall all over themselves to claim he is great when he does that and totally gloss over when he says stuff like this. He seems to be playing both sides. He talks out of both sides of his mouth depending on who he is talking to at the time. I don't trust someone who does that.

[BeanMusical]

10. "suggesting that trans people are actually just struggling with same-sex attraction."

Wut? What a load. Ignoratio est felicitas except that this guy is doing severe damages to Trans People with his ignorance..

[chrono884]

11. fuck the pope

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[chrono884]

12. playing devils advocate

"The Pope also attacked gender theory, suggesting that trans people are actually just struggling with same-sex attraction."

that's a step in the right direction, the pope is at least willing to acknowledge gay relationships.

[LostOne4Ever]

14. They have acknowledged homosexuality exists for a long long time

[font style="font-family:'Georgia','Baskerville Old Face','Helvetica',fantasy;" size=4 color=teal]They just demand that all gay men and lesbians remain celebrate...[/font]

[chrono884]

15. "They just demand that all gay men and lesbians remain celebrate... "

and before that they stoned them.

see progress

[LostOne4Ever]

16. +100 (nt)

[font style="font-family:'Georgia','Baskerville Old Face','Helvetica',fantasy;" size=4 color=teal]And welcome to DU![/font]

[MillennialDem]

13. I like women and I'm mtf trans. What the fuck Pope?

[Heddi]

17. Heddi's Advice to the Pope? "Shut the fuck up, you wrinkled old bigot"

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