What is really interesting is the way that the MSM (mainstream liberal media) likes to ignore secular (non-religous) world leaders and national states of true homophobia, and would rather concentrate on attacking a religious leader instead. Remember, in America, Church/religious speech is protected and separate under our Constitution...
One case in point of a target that the MSM has been soft on, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Rather should I call him the Iranian state emissary of ignorance and intolerance and hate, a main spokesperson for what President Bush refers to as the "Axis of Evil."
In 2007, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, speaking to Columbia University, said that "homosexuality does not exist in Iran." In Iran, since the Iranian Revolution of 1979, LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual,transexual) rights have come under intense governmental persecution, with international human rights groups reporting public floggings and executions of lesbian, gay and bisexual individuals. This is a national state, people, with laws and rules of public society based on fundamentalist Islamic laws and codes, that is endorsing this aberrant public physical corporal punishment and behaviour at a secular level. We won't even go into the Iranian state's public and vociferous calls for the destruction of the nation of Israel and anyone who supports and recognizes that state (hello, that includes us, the US of A), the MSM ignores that too...
Anyway, I digress, let's get back to the main topic, which are the comments made by Pope Benedict XVI, where they were made and their context.
Let us PLEASE remember and consider, as previously stated here in this essay, that Pope Benedict XVI is the Primate, the LEADER AND EARTHLY VOICE, of the Roman Catholic Church. Note, the Catholic Church is the LARGEST CHRISTIAN CHURCH in the world, counting in its membership number 1/6 of the world's population. Let me stress and repeat again - A CHURCH.
Pope Benedicts comments were made in his end-of-year address to the Curia. This is akin to the Chairman of the Board making a closed address to the board of governors of a corporation. The Curia is the administrative body, the central governing body of the entire Roman Catholic Church. It coordinates and provides the necessary central organization for the correct functioning of the Church and the achievement of the Church's goals.
Now what exactly did he say during his last "staff metting"? Well, he was doing what every CEO is supposed to do, he was getting his people on message and focusing them on their mission. One of the missions he set for his team in that address was getting humanity, that is all of us people in case you have forgotten, to listen to the
“language of creation”.He was stressing to his team that the intended roles of man and woman and behavior beyond traditional heterosexual relations was a
“destruction of God’s work”. Let's put this in simple terms for the MSM and liberal-minded folks, God created Adam and Eve NOT Adam and Steve. GOD created Adam and Eve to go forth and be fruitful not to be "fruity". He also said,
“The tropical forests do deserve our protection. But man, as a creature, does not deserve any less,"
"What’s needed is something like a ‘human ecology,’ understood in the right sense. It’s not simply an outdated metaphysics if the Church speaks of the nature of the human person as man and woman, and asks that this order of creation be respected.”
The Pope also said,
“That which is often expressed and understood by the term ‘gender’ in the end amounts to the self-emancipation of the human person from creation and from the Creator."
"Human beings want to do everything by themselves, and to control exclusively everything that regards them. But in this way, the human person lives against the truth, against the Creator Spirit.”
Nowhere in this message do I read HOMOPHOBIC.
Okay, so let's explore that word and what it means and how it is abused by the liberal and LGBT groups to attack people or organizations that they perceive as a threat to their LIFESTYLE CHOICE.
Homophobic is being prejudiced against homosexual people.
The simple truth is this:
The Catholic Church does oppose gay marriage and the social acceptance of homosexuality and same-sex relationships, because those relationships and acts are against God's design for man and woman, and those relationships inherently promote sinful homosexual acts that are not condoned by God and are, obviously, out of wedlock. Wedlock/marriage, which by Church definition is a union of a man and woman for procreation.
Noteworthy, the Church does not exclude homosexual PEOPLE from the liturgy and from participation in the Church. The Catholic Church also teaches that homosexual persons deserve respect, justice and pastoral care. The ACTS and LIFESTYLE that they commit as homosexual persons are the SINS the Church says need to be ostracized not the actual people. SINFUL ACTS can be avoided, we can choose not to steal or lie, but a LIFESTYLE is a CHOICE... And God, in their infinite wisdom did give Man and Woman free will.
So, in summary, the MSM labeling leaders of conservative and ultra-conservative or religio-conservative groups just because of their belief and conviction and that they are contrary to the MSM author's views is the last resort of a liberal losing battle. If they can't change your mind with their unreasonable arguments then they will label you, call you names and cry foul as if you are the wrong and they are the wronged.
Very well written, but a closing thought (opinion by you) to summarize all you've said would be welcome.
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