Mixed Messages?
I still say Pope Francis needs to hire a team of translators. Seems that if he leaves that job to the press Reporter Bias is invincible. But if I read a translator that I actually trust to be impartial I quickly find the Pope himself contradicting the interview that the Jesuits just released.
Or is it truly a contradiction? In the interview, he asked the Bishops to be more pastoral with gay people and less concerned with the subject of abortion. In the second article I linked to, he's talking to a different audience- to medical professionals whose very vocation is rightly the Gospel of Life.
Maybe the contradiction doesn't exist in Italian or Spanish. Perhaps it only exists in American English- tainted by the divisiveness of the culture war.
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Update:
They changed the name of the 2nd article on me.
Or is it truly a contradiction? In the interview, he asked the Bishops to be more pastoral with gay people and less concerned with the subject of abortion. In the second article I linked to, he's talking to a different audience- to medical professionals whose very vocation is rightly the Gospel of Life.
Maybe the contradiction doesn't exist in Italian or Spanish. Perhaps it only exists in American English- tainted by the divisiveness of the culture war.
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Update:
They changed the name of the 2nd article on me.
Comments
Besides which, it's not like the issue is just in the bedroom, or just with the sin of lust, it's a problem with trying to hold up a relationship between two people of the same sex as being equal to marriage, which is completely unsound. Furthermore, it infringes upon the rights of citizens to exercise free practice of religion, without due cause. If we were going about murdering people, then coming down with the law makes sense, however, refusing to offer our services and property to help with something that is taught to be inherently wrong is not right, anymore than you consider our condemnation of homosexual acts to be.
You practice a religion that does not allow you to eat meat on Fridays during Lent or marry another woman. That is the religion you have chosen to follow but those who don't follow it are free to eat meat on any day they want and marry anyone they want as long as it is sanctioned by the applicable civil authority. You don't have to worry about "condoning" something that is a sin to you but to the people involved. And you can't discriminate against them if that is illegal where you are.
Every parent of a three year old child knows this.
Of course not Bill, because for you, there is no reliable authority, full stop. There is no right and wrong in your world.
If Religious Authorities are not reliable, the neither are you. I am not about to buy into your lies about homosexuality, and nobody else should either, especially not your poor son whom you have damaged beyond repair.
Also, other people eating meat on a Friday in Lent doesn't affect Catholics like issues such as same-sex marriage does. Currently, people are being sued because they refuse to provide wedding services to same-sex couples. However, a Catholic-run deli can close its doors on Fridays during Lent, and no one bats an eye.
I enjoy debating with you. You are a worthy opponent and a formidable foe.