Pope Benedict calls same-gender marriage "dangerous!...insidious!"

[Bluebear]

What's more dangerous, or insidious? Two committed people who want to enshrine their love in law? Or a Catholic Church full of priests who molest young boys?

Pope Benedict would like you to believe the former:

"Addressing a huge crowd at the shrine of Fatima at the climax of his four day visit to Portugal, the 83-year-old Pope said that same sex marriage and abortion were among the 'most insidious and dangerous challenges that today confront the common good.' He expressed his 'profound appreciation' for anti-abortion campaigners, who he praised for defending the right to life and the 'recovery of people wounded by the drama of abortion'."

http://www.towleroad.com/2010/05/pope-benedict-calls-samesex-marriage-dangerousinsidious.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+towleroad%2Ffeed+%28Towleroad+Daily++%23gay+news%29

[TexasObserver]

1. Something, something, Dark Side. Something, something, complete.

Looks like that evil bastard from Star Wars.

[The Damned]

33. Great photo!

[ShortnFiery]

36. There's something in those eyes that creeps me out!

:scared:

[Tailormyst]

41. He is an evil human being. They call the eyes the window to the soul.

[MajorChode]

57. ...

[Soylent Brice]

54. here

[TexasObserver]

59. Thank you! That's him, officer!

[Soylent Brice]

70. .

:rofl:

[RainDog]

2. oh go cover up for your brother beating children, asshole. n/t

[mitchum]

3. He swore a loyalty oath to Adolf Hitler. THE Adolf Hitler.

[Captain Hilts]

4. Well, he doesn't have to have one. Problem solved. nt

[ladjf]

5. Pope Benedict is dangerous and insidious. nt

[nosmokes]

6. Pope Benny's a dick n/t

[JBoy]

7. I swear this guy popped out of the middle ages.

[getting old in mke]

8. Eases my mind, then

If Ratzinger is agin'em, then they must be A-OK.

[Initech]

9. And the hundreds of accusations of child molestation aren't?

Give me a motherfucking break! :eyes:

[ShadowLiberal]

10. Just like divorce used to be the most dangerous and insidious thing to the church

So much of the Catholic church's doomsday rhetoric about gay marriage reminds me of how they fiercely opposed divorces for centuries because of the bible calling it sinful, before finally being forced to give in to changing culture. Divorce used to be an excommunicationable offense, King Henry (the 4th I believe) was excommunicated for merely trying to have a divorce.

One of these days the church will be forced to give in on gay marriage to because of changing culture.

[DevonRex]

45. Until they figured out how to make money from granting annulments, that is.

Then it was just fine and dandy.

[marmar]

11. The official Catholic Church has boarded the bus to Irrelevancy.....

..... And Pope Ratz is in the driver's seat, flooring it.

[sakabatou]

12. Speak for yourself

[Mumble]

13. Never listen to anyone who dresses up to look like a clown.

He probably wears funny under ware too.

[Mz Pip]

14. I left

the Catholic church decades ago. I never had a problem with the pastoral aspects of religion; it was all the dogma that seemed so irrelevant.

This is the kind of thing that just reinforces why I left. There are many things that are challenges to the common good. The fact that Benedict zeros in on same sex marriage and abortion over war, hunger, famine, and torture just nails it for me.

[malaise]

43. I left for three reasons

I had absolutely no faith in any god
I studied their history and
I watched them in practice - from a very good seat since I attended both catholic prep and high schools and my mom used to translate for them - the definition of wolves in sheep's clothing.

[Sebastian Doyle]

15. If I remember correctly, Catholic priests take vows of marriage to Christ.

Who, as far as I know, was a dude.

[DesertRat]

16. No, they don't.

I actually attended the ordination of a Roman Catholic priest several years ago, and that was not one of the vows.

[eridani]

31. The vows are poverty, chastity and obedience.

At an elaborate ordination dinner, a clueless visitor wanted to know about the three vows. He looked around at the banquent and said "If this is poverty, what's chastity like?"

[KILL THE WISE ONE]

20. your thinking of nuns

[GinaMaria]

63. I think that is true for nuns, not sure about priests

[saltpoint]

17. Just wondering -- does the Dalai Lama wear a wrist watch?

And continuing with the tangential, I get a strong Thunderball vibe from photos of Benedict:



(Adolfo Celi played the bad guy in the 007 film THUNDERBALL.)

Ok, I guess he does, at least sometimes:

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QTqql23CCsw/Sf8yAHAcltI/AAAAAAAAA64/GSFaZAoCxWs/s400/dalai+lama.jpg

[malaise]

18. Does he ever STFU

He's worse than Lady Blah Blah.
:puke:

[Bluebear]

19. Really, go chant or something :)

[mnhtnbb]

21. I'd wager the Catholic Church has done more in the last 1600 years to harm the public good

than any amount of harm same gender husbands or wives could ever do in the next 1600 years.

And PS: Women will make their own decisions regarding contraception and child-bearing, thank you very much. They don't need or want your permission. So STFU.

[Angry Dragon]

22. The church is so worried about the unborn children

yet once they are born they could care less. They are against abortion yet masturbation is a sin, taking birth control is a sin, having sex for fun is a sin, sex education is a sin. Everything is a sin to the church. Perhaps if they worked on educating people about sex, let them stop unwanted pregnancies there would be less abortions and then the abortion problem would be manageable

[RagAss]

23. The face of evil on earth.

[ruggerson]

24. that pic looks like "Sister Bertrille: The Senior Years"

n/t

[ShortnFiery]

37. ,,,

:spray:

The Nuns of Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception are not amused! :silly:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouQVthzlvOU&feature=related

[SemiCharmedQuark]

25. He looks like he's getting ready to attack.

[Maru Kitteh]

26. OMG that's NOT A PHOTOSHOP?

My eyes just got scared. :yoiks:

[Robeson]

27. He's 100% right. You don't realize all the time I spend at night, securing my windows...

...and doors in order to keep the "dangerous' and "insidious" gay couples from invading my home. It's like Dawn of the Dead around here. I can't get no sleep.

[awoke_in_2003]

60. Beware the Gay Banditos...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-id4GKsaQk

[slay]

28. It's hard to take a group of child molester enablers seriously on moral issues

stupid pope and his zombie followers.

[TlalocW]

29. It amuses me that they think

They still have some sort of position in the world to weigh in on moral/ethical issues.

TlalocW

[Beam Me Up]

30. The Catholic Church has made itself a dangerous and insidious anachronism,

the remnants of an ancient civilization whose absence of morality is legion. Plenty of bluster about saving the unborn, among other things, but very little leadership in helping humanity find true peace. Of all the things that are "dangerous and insidious" in this world, the Pope directs our collective attention to same sex marriage and abortion? I, myself, barely a religious man at all, can easily think of several far more pressing moral concerns that have direct impact on the quality and sacredness of life. Oh, you know, illegal resource wars under pretexts of fighting terrorism, the institution of torture and rendition, the environmental costs of erecting a technological civilization on non-renewable resources, thus destroying this Earth we are here to husband and shepherd. Things like that and it is a very long list. So, either the Pope is a Dope and has no concept of what kind of true moral leadership is needed in the world today, or, more likely IMO, he is simply a coward. It would take a *very* strong and powerful Pope to acknowledge, identify and stand up against the true Evils of this world, He and the Church itself having long been one of them.


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[Shallah Kali]

32. Oh the humanity! They want... they want........ they want to commit MONOGAMY!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1Y73sPHKxw

and do it with someone who is NOT a minor!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1Y73sPHKxw

The horror of it all!

:sarcasm:

sometimes I wish I believed in hell so I could enjoy the thought of Pimp Ratzinger frying there.

[Scuba]

34. Rape little boys? OK. Marry someone you love? Not OK.

[ima_sinnic]

35. and why is there STILL "a huge crowd" coming out to see this evil man?

people are so fucking stupid :cry:

[olegramps]

46. They are of the same mentality as the Tea-baggers.

I see that he made this pronouncement during his pilgrimage to Fatima. This is an example of mentality of the "faithful" in which they actually believe in miraculous cures. How can you expect someone who is so damn stupid that they believe such utter nonsense to be able to be logical.

I will believe in miracles when I see a person who has no legs instantly provided a healthy pair. Seems to me that it would be a snap for someone as powerful as their almighty God that made a man out some clay and a women from a piece of bone after creating an entire universe that is beyond comprehension. It is difficult for sane people to understand how supposedly intelligent beings could still be ruled by superstitious nonsense that a piece of bread is mysteriously transformed into the body of Christ yet it still looks like and tastes exactly the same as it did before this astounding transformation. So don't expect this pathetic fool to be anything other than a brainwashed dimwit.

[ima_sinnic]

48. heh, for some reason those "miracles" only happened in "the olden days"

things like burning talking bushes, a sea whose waters split down the middle, an ark big enough to contain one pair of every living creature on earth (yeah, like penguins and polar gears were within easy reach of anteaters, 3-toed sloths, and giraffes--kind of like in Swiss Family Robinson--and of course they had a pair of all the millions of insect species--and did they HAVE to bring fire ants, scorpions, cockroaches, and rattlesnakes? Was it hard getting the lions and grizzly bears onboard??--and of course, there was all the right kind of food for every animal, including more animals to feed the carnivores, and a greenhouse, I guess, to keep the plant-eaters happy for 40 days and nights--and no mess at all with elephant poop, monkey poop, donkey poop, raccoon poop, panda poop etc ad nauseum)--and those dinosaurs! were all these animals in separate cages, or did they just free-range on the decks of the boat and not terrorize the other animals or humans? so many questions!)

so how come people don't live 800 years NOW?

[awoke_in_2003]

61. "burning talking bushes"

Why did I automatically capitalize one of those B's :evilgrin:

[Stevenmarc]

38. Yeah, hold that thought Benny and get back to me when your own house is in order.

[ShortnFiery]

40. Whoa! We need someone to make an Elton John song parody and entitle it ...

Bennie And His Peds (Pedophiles)? :silly:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjUk3Bp16zs

[Sebastian Doyle]

65. And the flip side to that would be

"Don't Let Your Son Go Down On Me" :hide:

[Tailormyst]

39. Dear Pope Prada: Worry about the sexual predators in your house.

They are FAR more dangerous. Stop obsessing over who people love and women internal organs.

May your god call you home sooner rather then later, before you harm more people with your hate.

[Ichingcarpenter]

42. He broke his oath to Adolf

Or did he?

I'm so tired of their shit, someone needs to nail a new list on the church doors or burn it down.
I feel like I'm reliving the 15th century with these assholes

[Bluenorthwest]

44. He thinks the world looks at him as if he and his church were

moral. He does not understand that most outside his cult see him and them as a criminal child abuse ring. He is vile.

[DevonRex]

47. True evil is thinking that molesting children is good but loving married gays are bad.

There is NO way around that conclusion.

[MajorChode]

49. Nothing more than diversion from the problem of priests diddling kids

If the nazi pope really wanted to talk about something dangerous or insidious, or actually more like an evil cancer, he should be talking about priests and other church officials diddling kids and how the catholic church has been covering it up for decades, if not centuries.

[ej510]

50. Religion is dangerous.

[MajorChode]

53. It certainly has enormous potential to be abused

I tend to agree with what Barry Goldwater had to say on the subject:

However, on religious issues there can be little or no compromise.
There is no position on which people are so immovable as their religious
beliefs. There is no more powerful ally one can claim in a debate than
Jesus Christ, or God, or Allah, or whatever one calls this supreme
being. But like any powerful weapon, the use of God's name on one's
behalf should be used sparingly. The religious factions that are
growing throughout our land are not using their religious clout with
wisdom. They are trying to force government leaders into following
their position 100 percent. If you disagree with these religious groups
on a particular moral issue, they complain, they threaten you with a
loss of money or votes or both. I'm frankly sick and tired of the
political preachers across this country telling me as a citizen that if
I want to be a moral person, I must believe in 'A,' 'B,' 'C,' and 'D.'
Just who do they think they are? And from where do they presume to
claim the right to dictate their moral beliefs to me? And I am even
more angry as a legislator who must endure the threats of every
religious group who thinks it has some God-granted right to control my
vote on every roll call in the Senate. I am warning them today:
I will fight them every step of the way if they try to dictate their
moral convictions to all Americans in the name of 'conservatism.'

[joeybee12]

51. Now that's ironic cuz I always called ratzi dangerous and insiduous! n/t

[Arugula Latte]

52. Why do people keep propping up these evil creeps?

Oh what a wonderful day when people stop attending mass and forking over $$ to this corrupt cult. That goes for all religions, BTW.

[cliffordu]

55. I wonder if he goes to the NAMBLA conventions.....

[moriah]

56. "Drama" of abortion? Did TNT start a new show?

Reality TV at it's finest -- see real-life struggles with abortion and its aftermath, on TNT -- they know drama.

[Zoeisright]

58. Um, right. So an unmarried, 'celibate' old man would know.

What a dickhead.

[fascisthunter]

62. he is an abomination

"let's pick on something that makes us feel uncomfortable, yet has no implications for the rest of us."

How about coming out of your own closet... what makes you claim this is dangerous is that people like you will be pressured to admit what you hate about yourselves. Fucking pathetic useless judgmental prick.

[kenny blankenship]

64. That bad huh? Well if it gets worse maybe we can just transfer it to another parish

Oh, wait...

[bulloney]

66. Let me get this straight...condemn the gays but show tolerance to child molesters?

And praise those who incite violence toward pro-choicers.

[Goblinmonger]

67. Time for this video again.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHRDfut2Vx0

Warning: Lots of F-bombs.

[Liberal_in_LA]

68. But he's ok with child rape n/t

[thereismore]

69. These guys are experts at marriage. Every priest does marriage counseling. What could go wrong? nt