{"id":1625,"date":"2005-06-15T00:21:38","date_gmt":"2005-06-15T07:21:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/06\/14\/in-case-you-forgot-what-the-new-bishop-of-rome-thinks-when-it-comes-to-same-sex-marriage\/"},"modified":"2005-06-15T00:21:38","modified_gmt":"2005-06-15T07:21:38","slug":"in-case-you-forgot-what-the-new-bishop-of-rome-thinks-when-it-comes-to-same-sex-marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=1625","title":{"rendered":"In case you forgot what the new Bishop of Rome thinks when it comes to same-sex marriage…"},"content":{"rendered":"

….Allow G.L.A.A.D.<\/strong><\/a> and I (but mostly GLAAD) to remind you…<\/p>\n

New Pope Calls Same-Sex Marriage Anarchic and False<\/strong><\/p>\n

If anyone doubted his views on same-sex marriage, the new pontiff has made his opinion crystal clear. Pope Benedict XVI cemented his hard-line stance while speaking before a Diocese of Rome family conference on Monday, June 6. The pope said, “pseudo-matrimonies by people of the same sex are expressions of an anarchic freedom that wrongly passes for true freedom of man.”<\/p>\n

Gay Catholics were disheartened by the comments but not surprised. “The comments by Pope Benedict XVI on gay civil marriage reflect what many had feared would be the continued language of hatred and disrespect that has come from the Vatican for many years toward gays and lesbians,” Charles Martel, a Catholic layman who serves on the board of the Coalition for the Freedom to Marry in Massachusetts told the Boston Globe. “The pope is creating a dangerous climate of inciting hatred toward gays and lesbians, and needs to be held accountable in attempting to encourage civil societies to perpetuate this prejudice.”<\/p>\n

The pope’s rigid views about gays and lesbians go back decades. He was the top enforcer of Catholic Church doctrine during Pope John Paul II’s papacy. In 1986, the Pope Benedict XVI, then known as Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, signed a doctrinal document stating, “It is only in the marital relationship that the use of the sexual faculty can be morally good. A person engaging in homosexual behavior therefore acts immorally.”<\/p>\n

In his June 6 speech, the pope also condemned divorce, abortion and contraception.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’m pretty sure freedom from dogmatic teachings, oppressive institutions and governments, and people being able to read books other than the Bible (or people being literate–period), along with women’s civil rights, would have also been on his long<\/em> list of whiny grievances against modern society. There’s your shocking revelation for the day: the new pontiff has an icky<\/em> feeling for the Queers<\/em> and them marrying their loved-ones. No wonder Dubya and other neocon Republicans have a particular fondness for his Holiness,<\/em> Ratzinger a.k.a. Benedict XVI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

….Allow G.L.A.A.D. and I (but mostly GLAAD) to remind you… New Pope Calls Same-Sex Marriage Anarchic and False If anyone doubted his views on same-sex marriage, the new pontiff has made his opinion crystal clear. Pope Benedict XVI cemented his … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[115,112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-homophobic-zaninessmore-lgbtq-issues","category-same-sex-marriage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1625\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}