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The pope’s alleged ‘homophobic attack’
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VATICAN CITY (AFP) – - A suggestion by Pope Benedict XVI that homosexuality is as much of a threat to the survival of the human race as climate change sparked outrage among gay rights campaigners on Tuesday. [Source / Photo by Yahoo]
There is no direct quote from Pope Benedict XVI that is clearly homophobic, so I do not think we should take it as a real attack. Knowing the Catholic doctrine though, I am not really surprised that the Pope disapproves of the assumed typical homosexual lifestyle. It’s Christmas, and today more than ever, I pray that the pope is blessed with the grace of universal love. And I pray for us all for the same thing. May we all learn to love everyone regardless of age, gender, and race. Being anti-anything is so yesterday. Love, love, love. And gratitude. World Peace!
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hello there migs. pretty surprising that after some time of NOT being in Cyberlandia… you’re back. And new look eh?
you know what? this is much more simple and easier to track than the design you had prior to this one. especially for technological dinosaurs such as yours truly.
nice to know you’re back.
MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!
palma tayona at Dec 24, 08 at 4:34 pm
oh and incidentally, lemme comment a bit.
i saw you have placed a “posts category” section on the right side of this window. how come there’s no section for “ART”? you mentioned that you “write about anything a gay guy like me would be interested in”, then i would assume the visual art would have to be part of that list. you have sections for literature, movies, music and the tv media… but sigh, none for art.
in all art exhibits that i’ve been to, seen and visited, the pink market has a stronghold. maybe it’s time, since you are (according to your intro) the “Manila Gay Guide”, that particular topic be given a bit more space here. if you want a more wholistic site for more of the “thinking” gay people to congregate in… open your categories a bit more to those topics that such types be interested in.
just a thought. cheers!
palma tayona at Dec 24, 08 at 4:48 pm
‘Self-destruction’
Pope Benedict made the comments in an end-of-year speech to senior Vatican staff.
Defending God’s creation was not limited to saving the environment, he said, but also about protecting man from himself.
It was not “out-of-date metaphysics” to “speak of human nature as ‘man’ or woman’”, he said. It came from the “language of creation, despising which would mean self-destruction for humans”.
Gender theories, he said, led to man’s “auto-emancipation” from creation and Creator.
“Rain forests deserve, yes, our protection but the human being… does not deserve it less,” he said.
——WHAT THE WORLD NEEDS IS LESS HYPOCRITE POPES/PRIESTS/BISHOPS AND CHILD MOLESTERS AND GAY PRIESTS PRETENDING TO BE HOLY.
World peace!
rommel at Dec 25, 08 at 3:25 am
im sure his thinking about dick all day long! even when praying
just like those priest molesters. merry xmas!
Reza at Dec 25, 08 at 9:56 am
Ayyy! Wag naman ganun, Reza… Merry Christmas!
migs at Dec 25, 08 at 12:18 pm
His face scares me- he looks like the Emperor Palpatine of Star Wars.
Organized religion is on it’s way out (it’ll take a while though). People are getting enlightened to the fact that they are becoming more aware how destructive and divisive religion is, especially fundamentalism. It is trying to make itself relevant by spewing this poisonous dogma.
imladris at Dec 26, 08 at 1:05 am
joke lang
merry xmas 2!
Reza at Dec 26, 08 at 6:59 am
hmmm, it’s comments like these that give the other side more bullets to shoot with.
palma tayona at Dec 26, 08 at 10:17 am
Really…so being gay is a threat to humanity while molesting minors is not?
“He who have not sinned cast the first stone..”
-thats all i gotta say.
btw, Im new here… VERY GOOD BLOG.
im always coming back for new entries. thanks
Bryan at Dec 26, 08 at 3:11 pm
Please everyone this is the Pope we’re talking about show some respect please, V world peace! V
Count Ochu at Dec 27, 08 at 11:52 am
Just because someone, a person or a group of people, placed him in a “Position of Power” doesn’t mean he deserves everyone’s respect…2cents
peppoi at Dec 27, 08 at 4:34 pm
respect is a two way street.
Bryan at Dec 27, 08 at 5:20 pm
migs, I take back what i said. its not a joke! We don’t choose to be white or black, male or female, left-handed or right-handed, gay or straight. We awaken in each instance to the reality of what we are. Nothing external to our humanity activates our self-understanding. It simply is. Alcohol distorts life for the alcoholic. Homosexuality does not distort the life of the gay person. Your pastor’s understanding is simply one more version of the idea that homosexuality is a sickness or addiction that needs to be cured if possible and if not possible, it needs to be suppressed. Wholeness never came to anyone who tried to suppress his or her deepest identity. happy new year!
Reza at Dec 27, 08 at 10:25 pm
comparing homosexuality to climate change is very homophobic in my opinion. even if a lot of people would disagree with me, you can’t deny that what the pope said could very well fuel more guiltless gay bashing incidents by people who consider themselves ‘religious’.
Rye at Dec 30, 08 at 8:46 am
Very well said Reza, very well said.
Bryan at Jan 1, 09 at 3:08 pm
Let us just face the fact at present, acceptance of being gay is a long way off. At most, we can say tolerance of what we do.
Jay at Sep 25, 09 at 4:42 pm