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Pope Silent on Uganda’s ‘Kill-the-Gays’ Bill
03/08/2010 by JR Russell
Pope Benedict XVI met with the Roman Catholic hierarchy of Uganda at the Vatican last Friday and delivered a speech summing up what he saw as the main tasks of the church in the East African nation — but made no mention of the draconian anti-homosexuality bill that has prompted an international outcry.
via Pope Silent on Uganda’s ‘Kill-the-Gays’ Bill — Politics Daily.
Pope Benedict XVI has not historically been one to keep quiet on issues facing sovereign nations. Most recently he has criticised the UK for trying to enact comprehensive equality legislation, yet still expects the country to foot the bill for his lavish visit. Spanish and Canadian legislators have been taunted and threatened with denial of communion or even excommunication for supporting equality for gays and lesbians, or access to abortion. He has called the parenting of children by lesbians and gays, child abuse.
But he does keep quiet when he frankly doesn’t care. He doesn’t care about issues that will not buy him extra power. He doesn’t speak out as vociferously about divorce or family breakup, of societal inequality or poverty. You don’t see the Holy Father selling off the Vatican gold to help the people of Haiti.
Because the people in Uganda who will be murdered in the name of hate are non-people to him, he doesn’t speak out. A nation proposing to cull all of its pigeons would be more likely to have Pope Benedict XVI speak out against its policies. The people Uganda are proposing murdering are gay people, their families and friends, doctors who want to advise people how to avoid HIV, and advocates of gay rights. Anybody could fall afoul of this law if they are not raging homophobes.
That’s why Pope Benedict doesn’t care: he’s safe.
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dan
October 16, 2010 at 5:08 am
I left Catholicism and came closer to God, by myself and through the real love of my family, my partner and my friends. I don’t need a pope, a big richly built church, a bible written by sinners and imperfect people like me to tell me who, what why and how to love and be fair to every creature. I dont;t even need to be told of what God wants me to do because I have what it takes to know what is good and fair to the world. I pray directly to him, I don’t even memorize lines in the bible which a lot of “Christians’ proudly recite to validate “holiness” I lived with people of other religions too, and they, like Christians, are all the same. I don’t want to tell and procaim what i believe and judge and take away the rights of others becasue they are different.I don’t want to label myself as Christian, Muslim, Jew – as religion is created by sinners and imperfect beings like me. I am myself, as how I was born as how God has willed for me to live. In my uos and downs and health and sickness, so many miracles happened in my life and continue to happen, far away from the comprehension of the most prayerful and the holiest bible, koran, torah scholar in this world. Because I truly connect to God and live my life in reality. I came from a family of love a circle of understanding friends, and a shared life with a wonderful loving partner. With God above us, that’s all that matters.
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Henry
March 8, 2010 at 7:03 pm
Oh, what nonsense! The Pope and Vatican has already condemned the proposed Ugandian “law”. Your views of this man are becoming ridiculous, not to speak of the misrepresentations of Benedict XVI by many gays in blogs and in the press.
Sei
March 8, 2010 at 7:23 pm
Henry,
Pope Benedict is not even well liked by most Catholics, let alone most of the rest of the world. Electing him was like electing Torquemada to the Papacy, except without the lovable personality. Unlike his predecessor, who I disagreed with but liked, Benedict has hardly been outspoken when it comes to denouncing atrocities, and he has been more than happy to blame child abuse within the Catholic Church on gay men instead of looking for real solutions- unlike his predecessor Pope John-Paul II, a man who it sometimes seems like Benedict is dragging his heels with regards to canonizing.
Now Benedict has a scandal brewing in his literal back yard- two of them really. The first is that wonderful prostitution ring that the Italian police just broke up, and the sex abuse scandal regarding the choir his brother once ran. I bet Benedict is going to try and claim he knew nothing about it.
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