Pope Benedict has decided all on his own that gay marriage is so dangerous, and such a threat to traditional 'family values' that it actually undermines 'the future of humanity itself.'

www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/244164/new...

www.businessinsider.com/pope-gay-marriag...
  

Evidently, even though he's not married himself, he has this idea that traditional marriages between a male and female are the best kind, and the best for raising kids, and that it must follow that kids growing up in a gay household are probably going to turn out bad.


Too bad he never read up on the statistics of same-sex marriages, which show that kids in these marriages are just as well-adjusted and happy as kids in traditional marriages.

igfculturewatch.com/2004/04/01/gay-marri...

www.medscape.com/viewarticle/514477

And too bad that the Pope doesn't seem to be aware of the fact that homosexuality, like heterosexuality, is a sexual orientation and not a choice.  So often, these religious types will mix up sexuality with morality and get their knickers in a twist when it comes to things about which they know nothing.


Bottom line, of course, is that what consenting adults do in private that doesn't hurt anybody is nobody else's business, least of all religious know-it-all kingpins.      


   
   
      
  

Does anyone really pay attention to those cranky old men in Rome?

Let them clean up their own act on pedophile protection before they attack anyone else.

In the US Benedict's thinking has few supporters. Nor does the thinking of the ulta-neocon Catholic bishops.

Rome has a liking for the Yankee dollar, of which it is receiving far fewer today. Many of us know that "Americanism" was a heresy a century ago.

The big "joke" on Rome is the scholarly education in theology and philosophy presented to so many of us in Catholic colleges and universities. We learned about the "Faith and Reason" presented originally by Aquinas and enhanced over the centuries. We also learned to think for ourselves.

And in the US the fundamentalists have far more sway as do their preachers.

From what I read Catholic thought in Australia often mirrors broader American Catholic thought.