Transgender Catholics Can't Be Godparents, Vatican Says

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Alex Salinas, 21, is a Spanish Catholic who was assigned female at birth but identifies as a man. In June, Salinas requested to become his nephew's godfather, but his request was denied, Spanish media report. He was not eligible to become a godparent, his church said, because he is transgender, which is incongruent with Catholic teachings.

Salinas's bishop, Rafael Zornoza Boy of the diocese of Cádiz and Ceuta, initially reversed that decision but reached out to the Vatican's doctrine-enforcing arm, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, for clarification, owing to "confusion among some of the faithful" and "the complexity and media attention garnered by this issue," the Catholic News Agency (CNA) reports.
On Wednesday, the Vatican rendered judgment, agreeing with the initial decision against allowing transgender Catholics to become godparents. In a statement, the Vatican said it is "impossible to allow" a transgender person to become a godparent, according to the CNA.

Bigots.

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1. Link

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http://www.newsweek.com/vatican-transgender-godparents-368142

You're welcome.

[Sienna86]

2. Just when I think the church is changing...

this has nothing tondo with aiding the spiritual development of a child, in fact, one could argue the adversity a transgender person faces gives them more to offer.

[Warren Stupidity]

5. as with the recent non-announcement on the abortion jubilee year one time free offer

the important thing is to shame and humiliate the sinner. Out of love, of course.

[Goblinmonger]

3. Kind of judgy

given the "who am I to judge" line the apologists fall back on so often.

[AtheistCrusader]

4. The WonderPope showed his true colors on day 2 of his Philippines visit.

He's every bit the bigot he was in Argentina.

[Warren Stupidity]

6. the apologists can't click a link that is labeled "bigots" either.

[cleanhippie]

10. The dolts don't like links that remind them of themselves.

[rug]

14. No, the dolts forget about editing timestamps.

[rug]

13. That's why you changed it to a link one minute after I gave you the link.

Time stamps, you know.

[trotsky]

8. Ah but you see, *he* isn't judging.

It's just everyone in the organization that he leads and could change at any time he wants.

But he can't because reasons. And murder.

[muriel_volestrangler]

7. So the Vatican says no transgender person can be a True Catholic?

But they don't think that's discrimination. It's not about who the person has sex with (or not), or lives with (or not); just being transgender "reveals in a public way an attitude opposite to the moral imperative of solving the problem of sexual identity according to the truth of one's own sexuality" so "this person does not possess the requirement of leading a life according to the faith". And they think that's "objective".

[Fix The Stupid]

9. I'll never set foot in a Catholic church in Spain! n/t

[Warren Stupidity]

11. the list of acceptable catholic churches shrinks daily.

[Act_of_Reparation]

17. We have a saying in Human Resources:

If there's something wrong with the employees, there's something wrong with management. The rationale here being that management is responsible for shaping corporate culture.

It's amazing how those who would agree with this premise when it is, say, Denny's franchises treating black patrons like shit, totally lose their fucking minds when we start talking about the Roman Catholic Church.

[trotsky]

18. And thus you have a small yet vocal bunch...

who scream "anti-theist bigotry!!!!" at the folks who are pointing out the bigotry, sexism, racism, etc. in religion.

[Act_of_Reparation]

19. I believe a certain Austrian cigar aficionado called it "projection".

He also said this:

Where the questions of religion are concerned people are guilty of every possible kind of insincerity and intellectual misdemeanor.

Fitting, isn't it?

[beam me up scottie]

12. LOL!

[gcomeau]

16. Why just Spain?

The Vatican made the ruling.

[Lordquinton]

20. Because as humor it has to hold a certain amount of credulity

where the truth, that the entirety of the RCC is trash, is far too absurd to comment on.

[Lordquinton]

15. Honestly, what do you expect asking the inquisition a question?

Remember their leader in the 90's and how well that turned out?

[beam me up scottie]

21. But atheists criticize the RCC's homophobic policies.

According to certain Catholic posters on DU that PROVES they're the real bigots.