The Pope doesn’t like..
I read yesterday that the Pope is bitching about the U.K having equality legislation for gay men and women.
“Your country is well-known for its firm commitment to equality of opportunity for all members of society,” he told the Catholic bishops of England and Wales gathered in Rome.
“Yet, as you have rightly pointed out, the effect of some of the legislation designed to achieve this goal has been to impose unjust limitations on the freedom of religious communities to act in accordance with their beliefs.
“In some respects it actually violates the natural law upon which the equality of all human beings is grounded and by which it is guaranteed.”
So he doesn’t mind the U.K’s “firm commitment to equality” as long as it doesn’t offer it to certain members of society. He feels it will offend Catholics who believe that gays shouldn’t have equal rights, as they are living against the “natural law”. It’s funny how he tries so hard not to actually mention anything to do with gays, as if it will make it any less obvious. Apparently his remarks..
have been interpreted as an attack on the Sexual Orientation Regulations which forced Catholic adoption agencies to consider gay couples as potential adoptive parents. By the time the regulations came into force in January last year, five of the agencies in England and Wales had cut ties with their Roman Catholic dioceses in order to comply with the new laws.
I doubt there will be a huge crowd to greet him when he arrives at the airport. The whole Pope thing should just wrap up. They make the Catholic Church look even worse. Most Popes are still stuck in the Middle Ages, as regards their views on women and sexuality. Of course they have to be, liberal factions of the Church will never get to wear that pointy hat.
Hopefully another crazy woman will try to pounce on him again. Might give him another fantasy to play around with at night.
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Speaking of that, in this month’s Dubliner, in a piece about the many strange and odd things that go on in the net cafes of Dublin (drug-taking, pick-pocketing, sleeping rough), there was one story I found very funny. One owner recalls how there was a priest watching porn on a computer. Eventually, a big crowd gathered at the window looking in at him, causing him to get very nervous and sweaty. He then left. For god’s sake if you are going to look at porn in a place like that and you are a man of the cloth at least take off the white band, it’s a dead giveaway. What is it with people that watch shit like that in public?
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It has recently been revealed that the late Pope John Paul II used to whip himself. It’s okay to practice S&M folks, as long as you don’t get your rocks off. There are whispers that he may be canonized in 2010.
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Pope Ratzinger doesn’t like the gays, but what would he think of the Calendario Romano, a calendar of rather photogenic priests being published by an Italian photographer.
He is now looking for Irish priests to capture for the 2011 calender, but only young and good-looking ones need apply. Ahem, exactly who is their target audience?