Comments on: Cardinal: Gays Will Never Enter Heaven

By: Ephilei

Ephilei — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 16:16:38 +0000

“Transexuals?” Even he must know he’s just making that up. Or maybe he has no idea what a transexual is, thinking they’re the same as gay people.

By: RebLaw

RebLaw — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 23:02:56 +0000

You know what? I give up. I really do. I tried to be a good little Catholic lesbian, I really have, but I find myself quickly becoming comical.

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 18:19:45 +0000

Supposedly God trumps all – - “Judge Not Lest Ye Be Judged” – it’s none of these holy lunatics’ business – God is our Judge! Cardinal or boy rapist – all the same in the catholic church – - even pope nazi!!!

By: lenny

lenny — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 17:53:18 +0000

“It may not be their fault, but acting against nature and the dignity of the human body is an insult to God.”

How “natural” is forced celibacy and where is the dignity of the human body in denial of biological drives such as sex?

By: ----

---- — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 17:38:52 +0000

In the end, who cares what Paul might have said? He wasn’t one of the Twelve Apostles; in fact, he was an enemy of Christianity until after Jesus’ death. Many argue (including Thomas Jefferson) that he corrupted its teachings.

By: werdna

werdna — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 17:11:06 +0000

Following on Jason D’s comment… Jafuf, if you look in the upper right-hand corner of this very page you’ll see a description of this blog: “News, analysis and fact-checking of anti-gay rhetoric”.

If you don’t want to be exposed to anti-gay rhetoric, you’d best avert your gaze from much of the discussion here.

By: Jason D

Jason D — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 16:45:24 +0000

Jafuf

-In order to fight your enemy, you must first know them, how they think, what they say, how they act. If at any point you think you have them figured out, that you need not pay attention to what they say: you give them an advantage.

-Nothing disinfects quite like sunlight.

-Ignoring problems do not make them go away. In fact, ignoring them gives them a chance to build up the strength needed to overpower them.

-The price of liberty is eternal vigilance.

By: Jafuf

Jafuf — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 12:58:57 +0000

And why are you publishing this statement? Especially when no one cares what this moron says or does. The fact that you’re giving him ‘a voice’ in the media is more insulting to me than any stupid statement he might make.

By: John

John — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 05:01:10 +0000

Well, if homosexuals and transsexuals don’t have a place in heaven, I can’t imagine Catholic bishops and cardinals who aided and abetted rampant physical and sexual abuse against children over the years have much of a chance either. I just hope I don’t end up in the same place as this cardinal in the afterlife. I can’t imagine that I have done anything so bad as to justify that sort of punishment.

By: Richard W. Fitch

Richard W. Fitch — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 04:03:36 +0000

@Candace: Minor correction – Paul was speaking about pagan/Roman/Greek temple prostitutes. The Canaanite gods and their temple prostitutes was the target of the injunction in Leviticus. The word homosexual came into parlance about 1850 and was used to translate the passages where ‘sodomite’ had been earlier. Interestingly, the word ‘sodomy/sodomite’ was invented in the 11th century as a parallel to the word blasphemy to describe ‘unnatural’ MM sex based on the faulty exegesis of the infamous story in Genesis.