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So a few weeks back I emailed some loony Christian organisation in the US as part of a protest, basically to tell them to stop being such total wankers (they were advocating a boycott of Hallmark because Hallmark, horror of horrors, were selling cards that acknowledged that not everybody is heterosexual, or something).
Their revenge, apparently, was to sign me up for their newsletter. Curses!
(Except not, ‘cause I had the sense to add "nospampleasefundiewankers" to the address, so I can filter it no problem…)
Wow, what an astonishing lot of bollocks this Cardinal Rouco has come out with. Typically for a Catholic spokesman [1], he manages to make a lot of claims (about how wonderful and perfect "God’s law" is) without even a shred of evidence – after all, why would he need evidence? He’s speaking on behalf of God!
I especially love the nonsense he’s spouting about "biological limits". Though he’s far from clear, I think he’s trying to make two points: a) that legal rights for gay people have come about because of "gender ideology" – feminism? – and b) that "gender ideology" is somehow opposed to human biology. I can’t be bothered commenting any further on this bigot.
| [1] | I actually wrote spokesperson there without thinking, but I doubt the Catholic church has many, if any, women who speak on its behalf. |
Rick Santorum has been whinging about the recent California Supreme Court decision to legalise same-sex marriage:
The California judges also ruled, for the first time in American legal history, that sexual orientation is just like race.
The California court just declared that those of us who see marriage as the union of husband and wife are the legal equivalent of racists. And openly racist groups and individuals can be denied government benefits because of their views, including professional licenses (attorney, physicians, psychiatrists, marriage counselors), accredited schools, and tax-exempt status for charities. Have fun with the rest.
So, he’s upset that the Roman Catholic Church (and others, obviously) will be subject to legal sanctions if it continues to spread anti-gay hate speech. How sad for it. If the RC Church was openly racist, it would be subject to these sanctions; as it is openly homophobic it should be too. While we’re at it, why not force it to be an equal-opportunities employer, too – where are all the female priests?
Bigotry is not okay just because your God says it is.
Al Gore describes why he’s in favour of gay marriage, and his explanation pretty much demonstrates the double standards of conservatives–they’re opposed (understandably, I suppose) to any kind of promiscuity, and in favour of marriage and commitment and "family values" and so on, but also opposed to allowing a sizable minority of the population to marry; that’s obviously not going to promote promiscuity, but neither is it doing anything to help their other goals.
"Shouldn’t we be promoting the kind of faithfulness and loyalty to one partner regardless of sexual orientation? Because if we don’t do that, then to that extent you are promoting promiscuity and promoting all the problems that can result from promiscuity."
On a similar note: an article on why "family values" doesn’t necessarily mean heterosexuality.
I meant to post this last night, but forgot. It’s a letter written a few years ago by Thomas Bushnell, explaining why homophobia isn’t like racism.
It’s on his LiveJournal, here.
(Actually, read more of his blog, there’s quite a bit of good philosophical stuff there.)