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   Friday, August 01, 2003

THE POPE TOTALLY HATES ME!

Wow, it looks like the Vatican gang have stopped polishing their gold cups and marble floors just long enough to go totally freakin' crazy -- I mean, how else to explain this?

I've been used to hearing the usual bleatings about how society will crumble into dust over my newly-granted right to marry someone I might actually love. Big deal. What surprises me now is the venom spewing from His Popeness:

Homosexual acts “close the sexual act to the gift of life. They do not proceed from a genuine affective and sexual complementarity. Under no circumstances can they be approved”...Those who would move from tolerance to the legitimization of specific rights for cohabiting homosexual persons need to be reminded that the approval or legalization of evil is something far different from the toleration of evil.

Well colour me thrilled. I've been crankly, snippy, sometimes even harsh, but to know that one of the largest religious organizations in the world says I'm evil -- that's time for excitement! Unfortunately, the only evil here is the next quote from this drivel:

Allowing children to be adopted by persons living in such unions would actually mean doing violence to these children.

I had a huge rant planned for that but I just can't do it -- it's too toxic and I've got a night off work for once. Just read that last bit one more time and ask yourself what a holy leader is supposed to be.