by Michelangelo Signorile
The Advocate magazine put Pope Francis on its cover, proclaiming him the Person of the Year, offering a myriad of reasons why it passed up others, such as Edie Windsor. The best thing about this is that Francis has a "NoH8" decal Photoshopped onto his face, and it's driving poor Bill Donohue of the Catholic League into a blood-vessel-popping rage.
But mostly, this was idiotic. Pope Francis is a lot of things to many people in the world. But he is not our hero of the LGBT community in 2013. Can we please get a grip, folks? Are we that starved for validation?
Pope Francis' statements of the past, which he's never repudiated, and the doctrine of his church, are horrendously homophobic. As Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio in Argentina three years ago, he called gay marriage the work of the devil and said it was "a destructive attack on God's plan." And his recent statements, saying church leaders are too "obsessed" with the issue of gay marriage, and that he can't pass judgement a gay priest, while very encouraging, do not in any way take back those statements.
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Thursday, December 19, 2013
Thursday, September 19, 2013
(MY View) Pope Francis Comes Out of the Closet!
by Michelangelo Signorile
It's just stunning to see Pope Francis chastising his own church and its leaders for using Catholic beliefs in a determined drive to discriminate against people. But make no mistake: That's exactly what he did in a new interview, forcefully taking on bishops, cardinals and lay leaders who've often used homophobia and attacks on women as means to raise lots of money and wield political power.
Pointedly criticizing the church for being "obsessed" with gay marriage, contraception and abortion, Francis' comments are a sharp rebuke of prominent American leaders in the church, like Cardinal Timothy Dolan, Archbishop of New York, who, just a few months ago, issued a bulletin to Catholic parishioners across the United States in which he told them to "pray, fast [and] sacrifice" -- in other words, obsess -- about the Supreme Court's then-impending decision in Edie Windsor's challenge of a key section of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), a case that Dolan called "the 'Roe v. Wade' of marriage."
It's just stunning to see Pope Francis chastising his own church and its leaders for using Catholic beliefs in a determined drive to discriminate against people. But make no mistake: That's exactly what he did in a new interview, forcefully taking on bishops, cardinals and lay leaders who've often used homophobia and attacks on women as means to raise lots of money and wield political power.
Pointedly criticizing the church for being "obsessed" with gay marriage, contraception and abortion, Francis' comments are a sharp rebuke of prominent American leaders in the church, like Cardinal Timothy Dolan, Archbishop of New York, who, just a few months ago, issued a bulletin to Catholic parishioners across the United States in which he told them to "pray, fast [and] sacrifice" -- in other words, obsess -- about the Supreme Court's then-impending decision in Edie Windsor's challenge of a key section of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), a case that Dolan called "the 'Roe v. Wade' of marriage."
Saturday, August 17, 2013
Thursday, July 11, 2013
(MY View) A Precedent Is a Precedent... Until It's Not!
by Derek Penwell, (Author; Editor; Speaker; Activist)
Society’s attitudes toward sexual orientation and gender identity are changing. Inexorably. And even though there’s a historical precedent in Christianity opposing the affirmation of LGBT people, the prospect of such a change shouldn’t trouble Christians. A precedent is a precedent … until it isn’t.
Here’s what I’d like to propose: In Christianity, truth is whatever Christians decline to argue about at any moment.
Stop howling for a moment, and think about it. Such a claim is merely a more rhetorically interesting way of saying:
“I used to think that, but I don’t anymore.”
Society’s attitudes toward sexual orientation and gender identity are changing. Inexorably. And even though there’s a historical precedent in Christianity opposing the affirmation of LGBT people, the prospect of such a change shouldn’t trouble Christians. A precedent is a precedent … until it isn’t.
Here’s what I’d like to propose: In Christianity, truth is whatever Christians decline to argue about at any moment.
Stop howling for a moment, and think about it. Such a claim is merely a more rhetorically interesting way of saying:
“I used to think that, but I don’t anymore.”
Monday, April 15, 2013
Tuesday, April 9, 2013
(POP NEWS) See Ya; Protest; Pioneer; Fantasy; Targeted; Not Yet; Evolved; Sugar; Jeer-ney; Loopy; 2some; Details; Losing It!
- EVOLVED; Drag Queen Sings Amazing Protest Anthem Against Russian President Vladimir Putin in Amsterdam, AND Putin Says Russia Does Not Discriminate Against Gays!
Thursday, April 4, 2013
(MY View) The Never-Ending Hypocrisy of Hiding Behind the Bible on Gay Marriage!
by Earl Ofari Hutchinson
The longstanding reason for shoving the courts, the federal government and the states into private relations between consenting adults of the same sex is the Bible. There are those two infamous and interminably cited passages in Leviticus -- 18:22 and 20:13 -- that deem a man "lying with" another man "detestable." Then there's Romans 1:26-27, which castigates men for doing "shameful acts" with other men.
According to these passages, the offenders must be put to death. The only fair thing about this is that today, that part is not frequently cited. That would be murder, which bumps up against U.S. law. But the first part is often cited and taken literally. It's written in the Bible, after all. But then why take one passage of the Bible so literally and not others? A little consistency would do much to appease the critics who decry the hypocrisy of cherry-picking passages from the Bible to justify personal hatred of gays or an anti-gay-marriage political agenda.
The longstanding reason for shoving the courts, the federal government and the states into private relations between consenting adults of the same sex is the Bible. There are those two infamous and interminably cited passages in Leviticus -- 18:22 and 20:13 -- that deem a man "lying with" another man "detestable." Then there's Romans 1:26-27, which castigates men for doing "shameful acts" with other men.
According to these passages, the offenders must be put to death. The only fair thing about this is that today, that part is not frequently cited. That would be murder, which bumps up against U.S. law. But the first part is often cited and taken literally. It's written in the Bible, after all. But then why take one passage of the Bible so literally and not others? A little consistency would do much to appease the critics who decry the hypocrisy of cherry-picking passages from the Bible to justify personal hatred of gays or an anti-gay-marriage political agenda.
Monday, April 1, 2013
Friday, March 15, 2013
Thursday, March 14, 2013
(POP NEWS) DOPE; SAVAGE LOVE; HATE;CONTROLLED;RE-JECT; INCLUSION; DISCOVERED; MACHO; CRASH; DIVA; HIT; SNOB!
- DOPE: Argentinian Cardinal Bergoglio Named the New Pope Plus Dark Cloud AND a Veteran at Dealing with Anger Over the Church's Anti-Gay Stance: His Quotes in Context!
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