This upsets me...

[starry_sigh]

The Catholic Pope, who exerts considerable influence over more than a billion people worldwide (with half of those billion living here in the Americas, my home) has declared homosexuality and transgender acceptance to be very grave threats, equal in concern to environmental destruction such as deforestation, global warming, and so on

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[pure_agnostic]

The Pope's pronouncements are getting worse and worse. If this continues, he will sound a lot like Fred Phelps. If that happens, most folks in developed nations will perceive him as just another hate-mongerer.

[starry_sigh]

I would like to believe you're right. Sadly, however, most of the Catholic faithful share his negative opinions about sexual minorities.

I wrote more as a reply to your own journal's post on this subject.

[quietann]

I just could not believe what I was hearing...

[starry_sigh]

I couldn't either. I can grasp how he might feel "sad" at the acceptance things he doesn't feel are right; but, to claim they are a direct threat to the future of humanity comparable to deforestation and the like just baffles me.

[ex_serenejo]

People will die because of this. People die all the time because of the Catholic church. It makes me feel very frustrated and angry.

[starry_sigh]

I hear you. Quite a lot of things from religious "authorities" (of many different stripes) lead to my feeling frustrated and angry.