RE: Vatican fires high ranking priest for coming out
October 3, 2015 at 10:08 pm
(This post was last modified: October 3, 2015 at 10:15 pm by Regina.)
http://edition.cnn.com/2015/10/03/world/...amsa-feat/
"A Polish priest who served with the Vatican's doctrinal arm will no longer be able to carry out his duties after announcing he is gay on the eve of a major Church meeting, a Vatican spokesman said.
With his partner at his side, Monsignor Krysztof Olaf Charamsa held a press conference Saturday in Rome, calling on Pope Francis to revise Catholic doctrine on homosexuality, which considers same-sex relationships sinful."
the bold bit done by me.
First off, I don't know whether to call bullshit on this entire story because it said this guy had a partner. I thought Catholic priests were supposed to be celibate, irrespective of their sexual orientation. It might just be that he got fired for not being celibate, not necessarily because he wasn't celibate with another man. You know how sometimes the gay community loves to get an apparently anti-gay incident and fucking milk it to shit.
On one hand I want to give him kudos for trying to get the Pope to revise teachings on homosexuality, but then to me that's not what the fight for LBGT rights should be about. Getting this church to do a 180, on perhaps the most controversial issue to Christians in the 21st century, is a massive undertaking and an uphill battle. To me I just want to take their power to influence politics away. I really couldn't care less what they think of gay people as long as they don't have power.
I also say it again, I still don't understand the thought process of any gay person who wants to get cosy with this religion. Given power it would trample you into the dirt in a heartbeat and not think twice about it. Have some damn self-respect, for goodness sake. I'm gay and I want nothing from this church, I don't want their false reluctant approval and I don't want one of their child molesters performing my marriage.
"A Polish priest who served with the Vatican's doctrinal arm will no longer be able to carry out his duties after announcing he is gay on the eve of a major Church meeting, a Vatican spokesman said.
With his partner at his side, Monsignor Krysztof Olaf Charamsa held a press conference Saturday in Rome, calling on Pope Francis to revise Catholic doctrine on homosexuality, which considers same-sex relationships sinful."
the bold bit done by me.
First off, I don't know whether to call bullshit on this entire story because it said this guy had a partner. I thought Catholic priests were supposed to be celibate, irrespective of their sexual orientation. It might just be that he got fired for not being celibate, not necessarily because he wasn't celibate with another man. You know how sometimes the gay community loves to get an apparently anti-gay incident and fucking milk it to shit.
On one hand I want to give him kudos for trying to get the Pope to revise teachings on homosexuality, but then to me that's not what the fight for LBGT rights should be about. Getting this church to do a 180, on perhaps the most controversial issue to Christians in the 21st century, is a massive undertaking and an uphill battle. To me I just want to take their power to influence politics away. I really couldn't care less what they think of gay people as long as they don't have power.
I also say it again, I still don't understand the thought process of any gay person who wants to get cosy with this religion. Given power it would trample you into the dirt in a heartbeat and not think twice about it. Have some damn self-respect, for goodness sake. I'm gay and I want nothing from this church, I don't want their false reluctant approval and I don't want one of their child molesters performing my marriage.
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"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie
