Reply #29: WHAT? [View All]

[beam me up scottie]

You: "Everyone makes mistakes, has biases, and follows some ideological rule that is offensive to others"

His opinions on gays were just a wee bit more than "offensive".


You: "Learn to live with those that are ideologically different than you"

Like the church does?

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"The Vatican yesterday urged Catholic politicians to actively campaign against legalising gay marriages which it said were evil, deviant and posed a grave threat to society."
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1010281,00.html

You: "If a feminist wants to say that men are the cause of evil in this world, yet does a lot of work to better this place for others, I would still heavily mourn the passing of her life"

The pope was NOT a feminist, quite the opposite in fact. He was a political figure who used his power to wage war against the rights of homosexuals. BIG DIFFERENCE.

How dare you tell people to "forgive his imperfections for the sake of dignity, civility, and your own self-respect"
Are you telling that to the victims of pedophilia who were not only protected by the vatican, but were packed off to other parishes so that they could continue to molest more young children?

Are you telling gays to ignore and forgive this:

"The guidelines, which were issued by the Vatican's orthodoxy watchdog, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, also described gay sex as inhuman and gay couples adopting children as "doing violence"."? (also from Guardian link above)

You: "This Pope did much for a lot of people in this world"

Think so? Good for you, go agree with them if it makes you happy but you've got a lot of nerve telling DU'ers "If you are not warm and empathetic, at least try and fake it."