Going Down the Sinéad Road
Jul. 30th, 2003 04:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
talktoolooseWithout apology:
FUCK YOU, CATHOLIC CHURCH.
As a Jew I hereby do not forgive you for the Spanish Inquisition or for turning a blind eye to the Holocaust.
As a gay man, I hereby do not forgive you for your continued attacks on my basic rights and freedoms. I do not forgive you for the 1986 Letter to the Bishops of the Catholic Church on the Pastoral Care of Homosexual Persons. In this document you justified gay bashing by saying "...when homosexual activity is...condoned, or when civil legislation is introduced to protect behavior to which no one has any conceivable right, neither the Church nor society at large should be surprised when other distorted notions and practices gain ground, and irrational and violent reactions increase."
I do not forgive you for the constant harrassment of governments in their attempts to extend to queer people rights equal to those actually or apparently living a heterosexual lifestyle.
I do not forgive you for your latest interference to social progress as regards gay marriage in Canada. And, boy! am I not looking forward to the Vatican's paper tomorrow outlining how the faithful world-wide should help build pressure against extending marriage rights to non-heterosexuals.
If you are a reader who is offended by this, if you are a queer person or a person of conscience who finds comfort or direction from this church, I ask you to think about these issues the next time you are fed a wafer by a hypocritical representative of a sexist, insanely wealthy bureaucracy which has fed misery, threats of damnation and shunning to pregnant women, gay youth, battered wives and indigenous peoples. Perhaps it's time to ask what moral authority these protectors of child abusers have and why you are comforted by their words.
Ask yourself what stink is being hidden by the incense.
FUCK YOU, CATHOLIC CHURCH.
As a Jew I hereby do not forgive you for the Spanish Inquisition or for turning a blind eye to the Holocaust.
As a gay man, I hereby do not forgive you for your continued attacks on my basic rights and freedoms. I do not forgive you for the 1986 Letter to the Bishops of the Catholic Church on the Pastoral Care of Homosexual Persons. In this document you justified gay bashing by saying "...when homosexual activity is...condoned, or when civil legislation is introduced to protect behavior to which no one has any conceivable right, neither the Church nor society at large should be surprised when other distorted notions and practices gain ground, and irrational and violent reactions increase."
I do not forgive you for the constant harrassment of governments in their attempts to extend to queer people rights equal to those actually or apparently living a heterosexual lifestyle.
I do not forgive you for your latest interference to social progress as regards gay marriage in Canada. And, boy! am I not looking forward to the Vatican's paper tomorrow outlining how the faithful world-wide should help build pressure against extending marriage rights to non-heterosexuals.
If you are a reader who is offended by this, if you are a queer person or a person of conscience who finds comfort or direction from this church, I ask you to think about these issues the next time you are fed a wafer by a hypocritical representative of a sexist, insanely wealthy bureaucracy which has fed misery, threats of damnation and shunning to pregnant women, gay youth, battered wives and indigenous peoples. Perhaps it's time to ask what moral authority these protectors of child abusers have and why you are comforted by their words.
Ask yourself what stink is being hidden by the incense.
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Date: 2003-08-01 02:49 pm (UTC)For the Catholic Church or any religious or social entity - when the hand that should be extended to help people seeks to control them and gain power over them, then we have the moral duty to oppose them. Much of religion is about power and greed. The Church and orthodoxy in most religions feel threatened by gay people and the idea of gay marriage, and that is a failure of religion and morality. It is a continuation of the need to dominate the minds of mankind, not a desire to lead and serve them.
I believe in God. Who I have trouble with are the people who purport to speak for him.
I have added you to my friends list.
Tim
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Date: 2003-08-01 04:55 pm (UTC)