Pope calls same-sex marriage a threat to creation

[amurderofcows]

Pope Benedict XVI denounced same-sex marriage as a "threat to creation." This comes in the wake of several heavily Catholic countries (Portugal, Argentina, and Mexico, among others) legalizing or considering same-sex marriage in part or all of their lands recently. His argument was positively goofy, framing same-sex marriage in terms of a threat

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[a_tergo_lupi]

*blinks*

That's all kinds of stupid.
I assure you, LESS people (as if that were a necessary consequence of gay marriage) wouldn't have MORE impact on climate change.

[rainbow_sleeve]

Gay marriage a threat to the environment.

Spoken by the Father of Overpopulation.

.... right.

[macabremadness]

Haha, yea.

[amurderofcows]

Considering the effort he went to in order to cover up children being molested by priests, while he was Prefect for the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, you would think he'd take a more charitable view toward same-sex relationships between consenting adults. I don't know whether he's bothered more by the consenting part, the adults part, or both equally.

Or maybe he thinks priests fucking 11 year old altar boys emits less carbon than same-sex married couples do. I don't know.

[susannah]

He's rarely intellectually flimsy.

I think he's asserting that we are part of creation, and that if we break divinely-structured laws for that creation, then we damage ourselves, and in doing so damage the creation.

And I think he sees things being so interlocked, that if we damage the structure in one area, it may also damage other parts of creation.

I don't agree with his belief that gay marriage is wrong, but I think he's fairly coherent.

It doesn't help when the media uses snippet quotes, when in fact he has written at great length on subjects like this.

The point is he thinks there's a divine order that outlaws sex outside of marriage between a man and a woman.

If he extends his arguments and concerns from that premiss, I think I can see where he's coming from.

It's the premiss itself I disagree with. But I generally regard him as intellectually sharp and, if anything, ruthlessly logical.

[gingerdavid]

I'm afraid that any claim he may have had to intellectual or moral superiority was pretty much destroyed by the revelation that he was complicit in trying to cover up the sexual abuse of children by priests.

[relics]

L.M.A.O. I love you more then can be expressed in an intelligent way.

[rainbow_sleeve]

FTW, love. For Teh Fucking Win. XD

[tko_ak]

I saw the headline earlier and was trying to figure out WTF he was talking about.