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And yeah, the Catholic church doesn't like gays. Sorry guys, as long as we're human, there's not going to be a world without prejudice. Roll with it.
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Most likely true, but it’s not simply the humanity of Roman Catholics that causes them to describe homosexual acts an sinful, it’s their adherence to a doctrine which, to me as a non-believer, is in no way special or inevitable or natural. These are people who have by choice dedicated their lives to institutionalized prejudice, if not discrimination.
I admit to not having listened to or read the Pope’s actual words (I don’t even know if I’d need them to be translated), but I imagine the attitude he’s saying is best is one of encouraging people to resist their homosexual temptations rather than burning them at the stake; what he’d see as helping others instead of abandoning them to evil. And as I understand it a part of Christianity is not actually judging others, leaving that instead to God. But we all know people are pretty shit at that, and will be taking the Pope’s words as an invitation to continue social, cultural, political discrimination of gay people.
I have a question for those that believe in homosexuality as natural temptation but a sin to be resisted: Are you for or against letting gay people be religious leaders? Are they just to be excluded, or is their successful restraint exactly the right thing to be looked up to? Would their appointment be seen as moral weakness and a green card to accept homosexual acts, or would it be a step towards helping other gay people to resist?