Catholic targets

Catholic Cardinals have gathered to pick a new pope, and right on cue the lapdog media has joined in about the church sliding into irrelevancy if it didn’t moderate its teachings on homosexuality, women and broaden its appeal to non-white races.


First, on homosexuality, it seems to me the homosexuals have a much bigger problem with the Catholic Church than the Catholic Church has with homosexuals. The church holds essentially the same position on homosexuality as Billy Billbo Clinton and LB as of about 8 months ago.

The big difference is that the pope isn’t trying win votes (which sadly in America now means buying votes) to be president. So the pope can sit back and point out the obvious. For doing so he roundly criticized for “being out of touch.”

Pope Benedict was once asked whether the Church’s teachings that homosexuals deserve respect are contradicted by its position that homosexual acts are “intrinsically disordered.”

Pope Benedict responded:
No. It is one thing to say that they are human beings with their problems and their joys, that as human beings they deserve respect, even though they have this inclination, and must not be discriminated against because of it.

At the same time, though, sexuality has an intrinsic meaning and direction, which is not homosexual. The meaning and direction of sexuality is to bring about the union of man and woman and, in this way, to give humanity posterity, children, a future.

What the pope said is as undeniable as the sun rising in the east. There is not one thing the least bit controversial about anything. There is a “natural law” about things. For humans, procreation requires a man and a woman. If a naysayer hates the Catholic Church for its inflexible position on homosexuality, what does he say about the natural law for procreation? God is a homophobe?

Next, allowing women into the priesthood.  The idea that the Catholic Church will anytime soon abandon its requirement for men as priests is a long shot. It’s not about social justice. It’s not about equal rights. Jesus chose 12 men as his apostles. Coincidence? Jesus walked the earth as a man. Coincidence?

That might be enough said on that subject except I cannot but help point out the hypocrisy of the people making the argument. They rail against the Catholic Church and wring their hands as if they care one wit about it. They could not care less if the Vatican was swallowed whole by a huge sink hole. In a world of malleable politicians, institutions and weak minded people, they are interested in minimizing the church as an institution that stands fast for principle. They cannot stand that.

Also while they roll in on the Catholic Church for the tradition of an all male priesthood as an affront to women, they utter not one word of condemnation for the Muslim faith that not only prohibits female religious leaders, it condones stoning women for touching males who are not family members, condones mutilation of woman’s genitals, requires that women cover from head to foot or risk stoning etc. etc.

These brave, brave talkers reserve all of their critical insights on the state of religion for Catholics, because they know the pope will not issue a fatwa on their worthless cowardly @$$es and have them blown up like the followers of the religion of peace would. It is the exact same reason homosexuals roll in on Catholic Churches but refuse to confront a southern black church for their stance on homosexual marriage. They know where they’d get their a@$$es beaten good and where they’d get a hug and a blessing. Cowards.

Last, outreach to people of color. This is the dumbest of the all of the complaints. The lily white lapdog media is complaining about Catholic outreach to minorities. Catholics have been ministering to the poor in every corner of the world since Peter. Today, most Catholics are Spanish speaking people from Central and South America. The largest growth of new Catholics is in Africa. Catholics are one of few standing up to Muslim terrorists in the Middle East and being killed for their service.

Meanwhile, the lapdogs ignore the violence and condemn those being killed as not tolerant enough to homosexuals, women and minorities. It’s a bizarro world.

What is most aggravating about all of this is the Catholic Church's near absolute refusal to set the record straight.  It is as if were they to tell the truth about their good works and reasonable positions, God would punish them.  So every hare brained accusation by any and all comers goes largely unanswered.