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Is Pope Francis a bigot? [View all]
Does someone who thinks that gays and lesbians should never be allowed to marry or adopt children (and in fact condemns both of those things), or who thinks that homosexual sex is a sin, qualify as bigoted?
Should Pope Francis be subject to the same judgement as Republicans are on this site for espousing those attitudes?
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Yes | |
13 (87%) |
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No | |
2 (13%) |
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Then why are Ugandan Catholics running a pogrom against gay people while their
Bluenorthwest
Apr 2014
#9
Catholic Magazine 'America' Denounces Uganda's Harsh Anti-Gay Laws: Jesuit Editors Speak Out
kwassa
Apr 2014
#11
What distinction, just in the past month, Pope Francis criticized same sex parenting...
Humanist_Activist
Apr 2014
#64
Uh? So when the Pope, a PERSON, says this, it isn't intolerance, what is he, possessed by the...
Humanist_Activist
Apr 2014
#67
Uganda is 42% Catholic, Francis' Bishops are calling for murder and elimination of
Bluenorthwest
Apr 2014
#8
What Ugandan Catholic bishop called for the murder and elimination of gay people?
kwassa
Apr 2014
#12
Not what I said. Bluenorthwest claims that bishops are calling for the killing and elimination
kwassa
Apr 2014
#30
You are wrong about the Bishops, they oppose the death penalty, but life in prison is acceptable.
Humanist_Activist
Apr 2014
#38
last time I looked the RCC's position on state executions was not so clear.
Warren Stupidity
May 2014
#128
It is true that the Church doesn't have an absolute position, for the past century or so...
Humanist_Activist
May 2014
#130
The line between attendance and a buck in the basket and complicitly in whatever evil
rug
Apr 2014
#33
It's a very important issue but this particlar discussion is not worth bothering with further.
rug
Apr 2014
#61
"dignity" are you fucking kidding me, that's just a cruel joke when the Church opposes equal rights.
Humanist_Activist
Apr 2014
#37
Dignity cannot be had without recognizing equal rights, otherwise its a fucking lie.
Humanist_Activist
Apr 2014
#43
I'm bigoted against their homophobic beliefs, which are straight from the Catechism...
Humanist_Activist
Apr 2014
#51
Actually, outside of their actions and lobbying against choice, contraception, same sex marriage....
Humanist_Activist
Apr 2014
#59
What part of "refuses to let gay people marry or have children" isn't utterly intolerant? n/t
trotsky
Apr 2014
#28
But not intolerant of people? What do you call a person who opposes equal rights for other people?
Humanist_Activist
Apr 2014
#35
I'd like to see the justification for those who voted "no". The Catechism of the Catholic Church...
Humanist_Activist
Apr 2014
#36
I have every reason to be rude to the disingenuous. Why the fuck should I be nice to those who...
Humanist_Activist
Apr 2014
#46
Pope Francis has said that same sex marriage is the work of the devil, that same sex parenting is...
Humanist_Activist
Apr 2014
#48
I find it curious, they stop bothering to respond when their BS is called out, don't they? n/t
Humanist_Activist
Apr 2014
#65
I'm a humanist, I put the welfare and rights of People above those of Gods...
Humanist_Activist
Apr 2014
#69
Thanks for that, I don't see why it would get hidden, I didn't violate any rules as far as I can...
Humanist_Activist
Apr 2014
#71
LOL, well the majority got it right this time, I didn't personally attack anyone...
Humanist_Activist
Apr 2014
#79
wait, someone can hate gays, blacks and women but if they kinda tolerate jews, that's not a bigot?
unblock
Apr 2014
#52
No, if they hate people, period, they can't be bigots, but if they criticize the Catholic Church?
Humanist_Activist
Apr 2014
#62
Probably because they have even less patience with bullshit polls than they do with
rug
Apr 2014
#76
Republicans and their extremist religious supporters enact laws, federal and state statutes.
pinto
Apr 2014
#77
"None of them need effect us." But they do, when the USCCCB lobbies to ban same sex marriage...
Humanist_Activist
Apr 2014
#82
Legal marriage rights are primarily a civil concern. Churches can do what they may.
pinto
Apr 2014
#84
Ahh, you are one of those "I got mine, fuck you" types, ok, well at least you make it easy...
Humanist_Activist
Apr 2014
#85
I'm not a type. I'm not a label. I'm not a category. I don't hold a "fuck you" point of view.
pinto
Apr 2014
#89
The issue I took with your post is you bothered to criticize extreme religious supporters...
Humanist_Activist
Apr 2014
#96
Sorry for the late response, I've been sidetracked. I Include extremist RCC members in that.
pinto
May 2014
#129
Here's a letter from him to the Carmelite Nuns about Argentina's same sex marriage bill...
Humanist_Activist
Apr 2014
#94
Question, are people who are against interracial marriages racist in your worldview?
Humanist_Activist
Apr 2014
#101
First off, he called civil unions a "lesser of two evils" even back 4 years ago or so...
Humanist_Activist
Apr 2014
#108
When he was a Bishop in Argentina he supposedly tried to negotiate the same thing.
Humanist_Activist
Apr 2014
#110
It is a very traditional position to hold. To describe it as bigoted is very new.
kwassa
Apr 2014
#111
Civil unions, in the form of Marriage, have been around for a long time...
Humanist_Activist
Apr 2014
#112
I would say that its rather intolerant to call same sex parenting child abuse...
Humanist_Activist
Apr 2014
#114
I have no idea if he is fine. I have no idea of the majority of Catholics are bigots.
kwassa
Apr 2014
#119
Since I rarely find agreement with anything you say, I don't expect to now, either.
kwassa
Apr 2014
#122
Under what context would someone be a bigot, if its not while holding bigoted views?
Humanist_Activist
Apr 2014
#102