Pope Benedict criticises Britain's Equal Rights Legislation
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Their website is interesting in another respect as well. If you want to make comments you can, but first you must contribute money.
Thus they ensure:
1. A good flow of something they love.
and
2. That only comments favorable to their viewpoint are likely to be made.
On this website:
1. You don't have to pay us anything to comment.
and
2. You can criticize us if you wish. Some do!
"Pope Benedict voiced his strong support for the bishops of England and Wales in their stand against an "Equality Bill" that would have threatened sanctions against the Church for failing to ordain women as priests and for resisting same-sex marriage. " In some respects," the Pontiff said, the legislation-- which encountered defeat in the House of Lords-- "actually violates the natural law upon which the equality of all human beings is grounded and by which it is guaranteed." A headline in the Guardian reported that the Pope "condemns gay equality laws." The Times, with the flagrant bias that characterizes that paper's treatment of Catholic affairs, made the sensationalistic claim that the Pope had "attacked Britain's move towards equal rights in its secular democracy." "
Have a look at them. At least they don't ask money for that.
http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=5312
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So the Pope thinks there is a
So the Pope thinks there is a "natural law apon which the equality of all human beings is grounded and by which it is guaranteed."
He also thinks this "natural law" doesn't give women sufficient equality to become Catholic priests. (I can't understand why they want to, but if some do then why not?)
Also homosexuals aren't equal enough to be fit to have the same job opportunities and teach in Catholic schools if they want to.
What is this "natural law"?
'It is the old intolerance
'It is the old intolerance venting itself in new names: instead of saying you are a heretic if you differ from me, you are a tyrant.' Jeremy Bentham
They certainly demonstrate
They certainly demonstrate Catholic culture.
Pay to have your say and even then they only want you to say the sort of things they want to hear.
It is the closed Catholic mind at work.
This is why Catholics never learn anything new and never forget anything the Priests have taught them.
How can they claim to be open minded when they go about things like that?
Regardless of the Catholic
Regardless of the Catholic Church the setting of equal rights in legislation should only be done with utmost caution. People's needs are not equal and rights are not equal and one person's rights can be the cause of another person's oppression.
It’s easy to make off the cuff statements about the ordination of women, but is it not logical to ask how these measures up to the traditional role women have played in society and if this would not effect their position as priests. By the way I am not a Catholic.
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