Catholic Cardinal: Homosexuality is a Disorder, Like Missing Limbs

Not far behind Scott Lively when it comes to being delusional and in need of serious mental health intervention are senior clerics in the Catholic Church hierarchy. The bitter old queens in dresses just seem unable to stop making injurious anti-gay comments - even as it becomes more and more evident that the ranks of the priesthood are filled with closeted (or in Rome, not so closeted) gays. The same bitter queens meanwhile are unable to direct similarly scathing comments to those in their own ranks who enable and/or cover up the rape of children and youths. The latest diarrhea of the mouth episode comes from Cardinal Jorge Medina Estévez, who led the Vatican's Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments from 1996 to 2002. The good cardinal is pictured at right wearing vestments that many a drag queen would be only too happy to wear. Here are highlights from Catholic Culture on this latest denigration of gay individuals:
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The gay community in Chile is reacting with indignation to recent comments by 83-year-old Cardinal Jorge Medina Estévez . . . Reacting to Argentina’s decision to legalize same-sex marriage, the cardinal said that “the Church distinguishes the homosexual tendency and homosexual practice. If a person has a homosexual tendency it is a defect, as if one lacked an eye, a hand, a foot.” On the other hand, homosexual activity, he noted, is immoral.
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Some, like alcoholics, have overcome this tendency by “discipline, education, or reeducation,” he said, while others have heroically resisted this tendency for their entire lives.
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Same-sex marriage, he added, “is something in opposition to the law of God, and no human law can go against the law of God. If a human law goes against the law of God, that human law does not exist.”
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But covering up the rape of children apparently is fine and moral in the eyes of the cardinal. He's got one f*cked up set of morals himself. It's folks like the good cardinal who have helped me to cease saying that I am a Christian. I surely do NOT want to be counted among such company.