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xchrom

(108,903 posts) Wed Mar 13, 2013, 04:55 PM Mar 2013

New pope same as the old pope: LGBT marriage and adoption rights ‘damage the family’

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/03/13/new-pope-same-as-the-old-pope-lgbt-marriage-and-adoption-rights-damage-the-family/

The Catholic Church may have a new pope but there his nothing new about his ideas when it comes to the rights of LGBT people.

As Archbishop of Buenos Aires and Primate of Argentina, Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio — who was named Pope Francis on Wednesday — has spoken out forcefully against laws granting marriage and adoption rights for gay men and lesbians.

In a 2010 letter published in L’Osservatore Romano, Bergoglio asked monasteries to pray “fervently” that lawmakers in Argentina did not go through with plans to legalize same sex marriage because it would “seriously damage the family.”

“At stake is the identity and survival of the family: father, mother and children,” he wrote. “At stake are the lives of many children who will be discriminated against in advance, and deprived of their human development given by a father and a mother and willed by God. At stake is the total rejection of God’s law engraved in our hearts.”

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New pope same as the old pope: LGBT marriage and adoption rights ‘damage the family’ (Original Post) xchrom Mar 2013 OP

As to why anyone would think the new pope would be different, I don't know. uriel1972 Mar 2013 #1

Doesn't matter. We're winning. They're losing. Smarmie Doofus Mar 2013 #2

He is a bigot - no suprise dbackjon Mar 2013 #3

Or even worse, starting threads about how terrible it is that the Catholic hierarchy is "hated" MNBrewer Mar 2013 #4

The lame defenses of, and excuses for, hatred and bigotry in GD are infuriating and sickening. Zorra Mar 2013 #5

uriel1972

(4,261 posts)

1. As to why anyone would think the new pope would be different, I don't know.

Reply to xchrom (Original post)

Wed Mar 13, 2013, 05:50 PM

Mar 2013

Hope springs eternal, I guess. The RCC and it's Cardinals have too much invested in 'Tradition' to give up on it's hardline ways.

Such a shame, but predictable and predicted.

Smarmie Doofus

(14,498 posts)

2. Doesn't matter. We're winning. They're losing.

Reply to xchrom (Original post)

Wed Mar 13, 2013, 05:53 PM

Mar 2013

No lie can live forever. (But it can seem like forever.)

dbackjon

(6,578 posts)

3. He is a bigot - no suprise

Reply to xchrom (Original post)

Wed Mar 13, 2013, 06:06 PM

Mar 2013

And no suprise there are "so-called progressives" on DU that are cheering his selection and are offended that he is not univerally loved.

MNBrewer

(8,462 posts)

4. Or even worse, starting threads about how terrible it is that the Catholic hierarchy is "hated"

Reply to dbackjon (Reply #3)

Thu Mar 14, 2013, 10:47 AM

Mar 2013

poor, poor Catholic hierarchy. WHAAAAA!

Zorra

(27,670 posts)

5. The lame defenses of, and excuses for, hatred and bigotry in GD are infuriating and sickening.

Reply to MNBrewer (Reply #4)

Thu Mar 14, 2013, 02:16 PM

Mar 2013

As usual, many of the homophobes seem to have no clue whatsoever that they are homophobes.

The implication is often:

"It's only the LGBT community that is being persecuted, therefore we can overlook the hate and bigotry of church leaders, and really don't need to care or do anything about it. Besides, it's not me that's affected by the hate, so why should I even give a shit?"

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