Fuck you Catholic Church: Benedict's envoy to the United Nations, Archbishop Celestino Migliore, has announced that the Vatican will oppose a proposed U.N. declaration calling for an end to discrimination against homosexuals... this particular French-sponsored proposal, which has the backing of all 27 European Union countries, calls for an end to the practice of criminalizing and punishing people for their sexual orientation. Most dramatically, in some countries, including Iran and Saudi Arabia, homosexuality can be punished by death.

Oh, for $#@*'s sake. How can anyone purport to embrace love and oppose this measure at the same time?

honestly, if you really do believe that a homosexual is going to burn in hell for all eternity, isn't that punishment enough?

Xop: Yes. If one applied logic to it.

-j: I'd like to force Big Poppa, the Pope, to listen to the Sermon on the Mount.

For, I dunno, eternity.

ratzinger is an asshole.

never trust a man who looks like Emperor Palpatine

This isn't the only instance of the Pope being blind to the health and good of the world. Imagine the effects on the spread of disease and overpopulation he would have, if prophylactics were condoned for the masses? (Right now it is only sanctioned for a woman to 'protect herself' against an aids infected cheating bastard husband. Obviously, since it's still her duty to lay with him, even if not for a child) Not to mention that the numbers of abortions would actually go down, seem logical enough? I suppose keeping people poor and unhealthy and fecund and repressed is better for the Church.

nomi: I know. It's disgusting. No thought of actually reducing the suffering of the poor and the dispossessed. If the meek truly will inherit the earth, I hope they line the princes of the Church up against a wall and dispatch them with AK-47s.

Wait. They wouldn't be really meek, then, huh?