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Pope Benedict XVI - Homo-Sensitive?
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In an age of mindless killing, misinterpreted religion and questionable politics comes an earth shattering revelation by the apostle of the Almighty Himself. According to the revered Pope Benedict XVI, one of the biggest threats to the Homo Sapiens kind on earth is well….being homo. It ain't the overstretched war or the mindless death of a sixty year old mother or the spread of a disease mostly due to apathy. No Siree Bob (who is also gay by the way)! The male lip-lock and old time girl-on-girl action makes the protectors of God’s creations cringe in as much horror as we would if we saw a character, God forbid, have an extra marital affair in a Sooraj Barjatya movie.
While I myself am unaffected by the sexual preference of people around me, I am very aware of coming from a country which has been distinctly homophobic for a long time. Even Bollywood which, according to Madhur Bhandarkar, is filled to the brim with consenting adults of the same-sex/bisexual variety, seems to be leaden footed in maturely portraying a gay relationship. While the incredibly moronic Girlfriend carried the message that all lesbians are pouty, crazy bitches, Tarun Mansukhani had us believing in Dostana that the difference between gay and straight men is that the former look or talk like extended cousins of Bobby Darling (ironic, considering Tarun is Karan Johar’s protégé).
So what is it that causes homosexuality to stand out like a beacon to an 81 year old among all the ills afflicting the world? To put this post in context, here is the excerpt from his speech to the Vatican staff that’s causing all the heartburn (the type that cannot be cured by Eno/Pudin Hara).
“It is not out-of-date metaphysics to speak of human nature as 'man' or woman'. It comes from the language of creation, despising which would mean self-destruction for humans. […] Gender theories lead to man's "auto-emancipation" from creation and Creator. […] Rain forests deserve, yes, our protection but the human being... does not deserve it less”
The Pope actually denouncing it is not a surprise. Almost all religious texts soundly condemn it and any sexual acts around it. However, as much as the moral police would like us to believe that there is a line in the sand, people suffer from that uncontrollable ill that plagues, at least, the civilized world; as Morgan Freeman playing God tells Jim Carrey in Bruce Almighty, the one of “free will” or “choice”. Now choice comes with its own baggage. Is homosexuality something you are born with or is it something you turned to because your last 3 heterosexual relationships were with alcoholic biker dudes/supremely boring bimbettes with IQs of a teacup? And do we really have the right to begrudge you a committed loving relationship even if it was with someone within your gender? Are gays never people of God or vice-versa? If the Pope were to be believed, the moment you step over the line, the sin committed is on par with greedy destruction of Mother Nature’s delicate balance. And therein precisely lies the problem of the message – where you decry racism, apartheid, caste systems, religious killing and slavery on one hand, but willing to outcast people because of their sexual preference on the other.
Perhaps we have let our moral compasses become too blurred to see the big picture…perhaps we prefer to see the goodness in people outside of what they do behind closed doors….or perhaps, just perhaps when we send our prayers upwards, we hope that God showers His blessings without discrimination.
Pope Benedict XVI - Homo-Sensitive?
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Slime_id
December 31, 2008
02:58 PM
If half of this world were gay, Pope would support gay rights. Its all about being popular.
Being gay is right of every person! even the right of Pope whenever he/she chooses to. Its not biological and at times even simply demographical
There was an article in ToI
Sans females, men go gay in Mehsana
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Ahmedabad/Sans_females_men_go_gay_in_Mehsana/articleshow/3234150.cms
In some regions of India, Trends show that many affluent Mehsana men in their 30s are now wining and dining gays from Ahmedabad.
kerty
December 31, 2008
04:32 PM
DJ
"Perhaps we have let our moral compasses become too blurred to see the big picture"
When sexual hormones take over, people lose moral compass and ability to see any picture, big or small. Digging holes and having serial orgasms is all that sexual hormones would be preoccupied with. However, humans have mind and soul besides body - and their pursuit gives us moral purpose and distinct identity. Those who would like to reduce our identity and pursuits to biological and sexual levels, are serious reductionists and negationists. Its funny when sexual identity talks about moral compass, humanity and God's blessing - none can be accessed by it because it opted out from them, it is not made in the image of God, it is not part of God's intelligent design but freak malfunction of DNA, a product of nihilist ideological orientation. And its Jehad against God, morality, creation and nature shall meet the same.
commonsense
December 31, 2008
07:06 PM
Kerty:
"When sexual hormones take over, people lose moral compass and ability to see any picture, big or small."
Totally agree! the other day (night actually!) I was lucky enough to lose my moral compass when my gonads took over. Within a second or two, it magically became my immoral compass (from the perspective of ayatollah Kerty that is). At my age, this does not happen too often. But man(and woman), did i have a an incredible few hours of delicious polymorphous perversity!!!
the pope, the ayatollahs, and the kertys of this world are probably envious, but there's no way I can prove this. but what i can argue that those who protest the loudest - the preacher Ted Haggard, the senator from Idaho who was solicting gay sex in the toilets etc. etc. etc. and one more etc. - are the ones usually who are not getting any, although I will admit I have no HARD (or soft/limp) data to drive my point, or even immoral compass home!
commonsense
December 31, 2008
07:20 PM
And a Happy New Year to you ALL: non-homos, homos, in-betweens and of course the Kertys of this world. Sex wouldn't be fun if it were not trangressive. It wouldn't be transgressive if the Popes and the Kertys did not exist. So, THANKS!!
commonsense
December 31, 2008
07:56 PM
Slime ID:
""In some regions of India, Trends show that many affluent Mehsana men in their 30s are now wining and dining gays from Ahmedabad. ""
Kerty, here's your chance of a lifetime to lose your moral compass, and to see all pictures, big and small! Enjoy!!
Chandra
January 1, 2009
03:54 AM
The Pope is entitled to an opinion...just like all of us....
commonsense
January 1, 2009
11:22 AM
Chandra,
Of course! Just as we have opinions on his opinions, although the Pope never directly responds to our opinions on DC. At this time of the year it's understandable since he is busy.
BruiserND
January 1, 2009
02:24 PM
The Pope is infallible in the eyes of billions.
Bottom line; rump rangers will rot in hell.
Remember that the next time you are wiping shit off your pecker.
BruiserND
January 1, 2009
02:28 PM
The Pope is infallible in the eyes of billions.
Bottom (no pun intended ) line; rump rangers are going to rot in Hell.
Remember that the next time you are wiping feces off your pecker.
commonsense
January 1, 2009
09:38 PM
the pope is not the only one who is infallible.
ruvy and kerty are infallible too. as with other wannabee prophets
Aaman
URL
January 1, 2009
10:00 PM
Why send prayers upward and not inward?
Margaret
January 3, 2009
03:23 PM
I wonder if the little girl who wrote this piece had actually READ the Pope's own words? Most of the journalists who grabbed at the twisted Reuters-report and mindlessly repeated it, have not even read his authentic words. The English translation appeared a few days after the Italian.
The Pope is no gay and lesbian basher. His speech was profound and spiritually challenging. There is much more to say about the term "gender theory" than the ego's of the gay world can cope with.
commonsense
January 3, 2009
04:15 PM
margaret:
""Most of the journalists who grabbed at the twisted Reuters-report and mindlessly repeated it, have not even read his authentic words. The English translation appeared a few days after the Italian.""
ummm, err...so what exactly DID he say? the mindless people anxiously await your reponse. In English or Vaticanese...
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