Reply #49: Notwithstanding The Catholic Church's Political Influence, Its Leaders... [View All]

[arwalden]

... (with their anti-gay rhetoric) help to establish a climate of hostility and intolerance towards gays and lesbians. From the Pope on down, church leaders continually portray homosexuals as being "evil".

Even though such deliberate and hateful comments are not always directed at any one country or world leader... the comments do not exist in a vacuum. Their words of intolerance do help to shape opinions and create hatred, and violence, towards homosexuals (not to mention how it poisons the minds of young homosexuals and fills them with self-loathing).

<< If you don't like us pointing out facts about the church's bigotry, too fucking bad. >>

Well said!