Gay Christians slam Pope's comments

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Lesbian and gay Christians have denounced Pope Benedict's claim that saving humanity from homosexual or transsexual behaviour is as important as saving the rainforest from destruction. Skip related content

 

 

Gay Christians slam Pope's comments

The Pontiff said humanity needed to listen to the "language of creation" to understand the intended roles of man and woman and that behaviour beyond traditional heterosexual relations was a "destruction of God's work".

He called on the Church to protect man from the "destruction of himself" saying that tropical rainforests deserved protection but man as a creature "does not deserve any less".

But the Rev Sharon Ferguson, chief executive of the Lesbian and Gay Christian Movement, described his remarks as "totally irresponsible and unacceptable in any shape or form."

She said: "It is more the case that we need to be saved from his comments. It is comments like that that justify homophobic bullying that goes on in schools and it is comments like that that justify gay bashing.

"There are still so many instances of people being killed around the world, including in western society, purely and simply because of their sexual orientation or their gender identity.

"When you have religious leaders like that making that sort of statement then followers feel they are justified in behaving in an aggressive and violent way because they feel that they are doing God's work in ridding the world of these people."

 

Peter vv

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Well - it was a very silly thing to say, wasn't it!

 

Jo

 

 

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Peter VV

Saturday, December 27, 2008 4:30 PM

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Lesbian and gay Christians have denounced Pope Benedict's claim that saving humanity from homosexual or transsexual behaviour is as important as saving the rainforest from destruction. Skip related content

 

 

Gay Christians slam Pope's comments

The Pontiff said humanity needed to listen to the "language of creation" to understand the intended roles of man and woman and that behaviour beyond traditional heterosexual relations was a "destruction of God's work".

He called on the Church to protect man from the "destruction of himself" saying that tropical rainforests deserved protection but man as a creature "does not deserve any less".

But the Rev Sharon Ferguson, chief executive of the Lesbian and Gay Christian Movement, described his remarks as "totally irresponsible and unacceptable in any shape or form."

She said: "It is more the case that we need to be saved from his comments. It is comments like that that justify homophobic bullying that goes on in schools and it is comments like that that justify gay bashing.

"There are still so many instances of people being killed around the world, including in western society, purely and simply because of their sexual orientation or their gender identity.

"When you have religious leaders like that making that sort of statement then followers feel they are justified in behaving in an aggressive and violent way because they feel that they are doing God's work in ridding the world of these people."

 

Peter vv

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Jon Stewart had an incredible interview with Republican Mike Huckabee

on the Daily Show recently. Civil and incisive. Parts of it were

repeated on the radio show Fresh Air. They had wildly divergent

points of view and stayed polite without tiptoeing around the issues.

 

Stewart was saying, why don't you think gay people should have the

same rights and privileges as everyone else?

 

Huckabee was saying, they've made a different choice, marriage is etc. etc.

 

Stewart said, the difference between us is that we have different

ideas of what gay people are. I live in NY City, so I'm going to make

a wild guess and say I know more gay people than you do. It's not a

choice. Religion is more of a choice, and we have tons of laws

protecting religion. We should not be asking gay people to " make

their case " why they should be equal.

 

Of course, Huckabee stayed the smiling politician and didn't budge,

but to his credit he did stay in his seat for Stewart's long speech.

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I saw that video too. I loved that quote, about religion being more

of a choice than homosexuality. John Stewart rocks.

 

Maggie

 

On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 10:07 PM, <yarrow wrote:

> Jon Stewart had an incredible interview with Republican Mike Huckabee

> on the Daily Show recently.

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One of my favourite words is 'nice'. It doesn't really matter what people think or what their inner views are - if they behave in a 'nice' way everything will be well, and there would be no discrimination (no nastiness).

 

Jo

 

 

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yarrow

Sunday, December 28, 2008 3:07 AM

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Jon Stewart had an incredible interview with Republican Mike Huckabee on the Daily Show recently. Civil and incisive. Parts of it were repeated on the radio show Fresh Air. They had wildly divergent points of view and stayed polite without tiptoeing around the issues.Stewart was saying, why don't you think gay people should have the same rights and privileges as everyone else?Huckabee was saying, they've made a different choice, marriage is etc. etc.Stewart said, the difference between us is that we have different ideas of what gay people are. I live in NY City, so I'm going to make a wild guess and say I know more gay people than you do. It's not a choice. Religion is more of a choice, and we have tons of laws protecting religion. We should not be asking gay people to "make their case" why they should be equal.Of course, Huckabee stayed the smiling politician and didn't budge, but to his credit he did stay in his seat for Stewart's long speech.