Speaking of liars and hate merchants, Pope Benedict XVI and his sycophants in the Catholic Church hierarchy speak out of one side of their mouths that LGBT individuals should be treated with respect and dignity. But then we see what they really believe as they seek to defame gays and deprive us of civil legal rights. What am I talking about? On the issue of defaming gays, African Cardinal Peter Turkson (pictured above), one of the top contenders for the papacy, has issued statements that seek to blame gays for the Church's worldwide sex abuse crisis. Never mind the hierarchy's sick obsession with all things sexual and the warped psycho-sexual development of far too many seminarians. Gay Star News looks at Turkson's anti-gay batshitery. Here are highlights:
The African cardinal widely tipped to be the next pope has blamed the Catholic Church’s pedophilia on gay priests. Cardinal Peter Turkson, from Ghana, said the sex abuses would never happen in Africa because the culture is against homosexuality.
Speaking to CNN, the 64-year-old said: ‘African traditional systems kind of protect or have protected its population against the tendency. ‘Because in several communities, in several cultures in Africa homosexuality or for that matter any affair between two sexes of the same kind, are not countenanced in our society.’ ‘So that cultural taboo, that tradition has been there,’ Turkson said. ‘It has served to keep it out.’
Never mind the fact that many experts on the Catholic Church sex abuse scandal expect that before long a scandal similar to what has been seen all around the world will explode in Africa. Indeed, the only reason that it hasn't exploded yet is because of the general ignorance and lack of education of most of the victims and their families. When the sex abuse scandal does explode, I'm sure that once again Tuckson will blame it on the gays. The real problem as often noted is the Church's bizarre and obsessive approach to all things sexual as symbolized by the image below:
I was raised as a Catholic, so I know all too well the obsession with sex and the evil nature and temptations of women.
Meanwhile the Church hierarchy continues its attack on any form of gay rights in America. With the recent announcement that the Department of Defense will be extending some spousal benefits to gay service members and their families, Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio of the Archdiocese for the Military Services, and the vitriolic anti-gay Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone of San Francisco are throwing hissy fits that would out do the most outrageous drag queen. The Navy Times looks at their efforts to undermine the goal of affording equal treatment to same sex couple headed military families. What exposes the actions of these men as disingenuous bullshit is their supposed concern for children. This from men who are part of the organization that has orchestrated a world wide criminal conspiracy to protect child rapists and obstruct justice. Excuse me while I go make use of a vomit bag. Here are excepts from the Navy Times article:
Two Catholic archbishops — one of them the archbishop of the military archdiocese — have expressed concern about the potential effects of the Defense Department’s new policy extending more benefits to same-sex domestic partners, to include negative effects on religious freedom and on children.
Broglio said the new policy could have possible negative effects on religious liberty, and used the example of an attorney in the Judge Advocate General Corps. “Could a JAG officer choose, out of religious or moral convictions, not to give legal advice on marital and family issues to same-sex ‘partners’ without being subject to discipline? Forcing the officer to violate his conscience would not be fair,” he said in the statement.
Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone of San Francisco, chairman of the bishops’ subcommittee for the promotion and defense of marriage, also expressed concerns about the policy’s potential effects on children.
Cordileone focused on the potential effects on children. “There is no question that all service members should be treated equally, but it is not discrimination to treat different things differently. Only a man and a woman can bring children into the world, and so marriage, as the foundation of the family, by its very nature can only be between a man and a woman,” he said.
Under Cordileone's bizarre manifestation of concern for children, the children of same sex military couples would be deprived of benefits and legal rights and resources. Sadly, it is not surprising that "princes of the church" such as Broglio and Cordileone - who are part of a criminal conspiracy involving crimes against children - would seek to harm the children of same sex couples one or both of whom is/are in the U.S. military. And believe me, I know a number of same sex couples locally where one of the spouses is in the military. Real couples and real children are harmed by the agenda of Broglio and Cordileone - just as real children were and are being harmed by the Vatican orchestrated conspiracy to protect child rapists.
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