Monday, July 29, 2013

"Who am I to judge gays?", asks Pope. We answer!

The Most Humble Pope Who Ever Lived (as Pope Francis seemingly wants to be known) has returned from Brasil, where he got a reception greater than that accorded to rock stars, soccer players or his predecessor who visited a couple of years ago. There's something disturbing -- to us, at least -- about the sight of millions of drunk, barely-clad yoofs waving their hands skywards and chanting "Pope! Pope! Pope!"

But anyway... the Holy (?) Father spent some time talking with reporters in the Rome-bound plane. Always good for a quote, Pope Francis answered a question about gays this way. "If a person is gay and seeks God and has good will, who am I to judge him?"

Since it seems Francis is a little shaky on his theology and the protocols of the Church, we (Walt and Len) will provide the answer to his question. Holy Father, you are supposed to be the spiritual leader of the Christian Church, according to whose teachings homosexuality is "gravely disordered", as Pope Benedict XVI said. That's who you are.

A few moments later, BBC reports, the Pope backtracked a bit. He said that Catholic teaching was ["is", surely! Ed.] that homosexual acts were sinful. "The Catechism of the Catholic Church explains this very well," he said.

However, he added, gay people "should not be marginalised because of this but...must be integrated into society." Unfortunately, that's not what the LGBT crowd are pushing for. The queer agenda these days is the reverse. They want mainstream society to turn queer, so that what must be regarded as deviant behaviour becomes "the new normal".

Pope Francis did say -- again -- that there is a very powerful gay lobby, extending into the highest echelons of the Church. "The problem is not having this orientation," he said. "The problem is lobbying by this orientation, or lobbies of greedy people, political lobbies, Masonic lobbies, so many lobbies. This is the worse problem."

So it's the lobbyists, then... Shouldn't there be a simple solution to that? If only the Holy Father weren't so "disorganized"!

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