Elizabeth Scalia: Church is wrong about homosexuality being incompatible with priesthood

La Salette Journey ^ | July 12, 2012 | Paul Melanson

[cleghornboy]

Pope Benedict XVI has stated it clearly: homosexuality is incompatible with the priesthood. But Elizabeth Scalia, a writer/blogger for First Things and The Anchoress on Patheos, disagrees. In a blog post which may be found here, Ms. Scalia writes, "If Christians have any interest in reaching out to the gay community, if we have any hope to speak a message which can touch their hearts as well, we absolutely must be willing to live as their family. Behind his blundering obscenity, behind his facile attempts to explain Scripture away, behind the blatant hypocrisy of his behavior toward those who disagree with him, what Dan Savage means to tell us is, 'The church has far too often, and for the most wrong-headed reasons, failed to be family to gay people.'

I completely agree. And I really believe that the way to begin to do that is for our bishops and the curia to stop turning a blind eye to a simple truth, that numbered among our priests are faithful, celibate, joyful priests who are homosexual...

[Ann Archy]

THANKS.....My Oxord Study Bible with the Apocrypha is worded differently but same meaning.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

But (not pictured) the cigar!

Sorry. Just not seeing it.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Ha! Dang, I can't find any really butch pictures with the cigar. Or anything from when she was really in her prime. There's this:

The Telegraph wrote, “Clad in leopard-skin trousers and a leather jacket, she might sit in silence for minutes on end, puffing on a cigar, after one of her students had finished reading out an essay.”

And The Guardian : “For a time she sported a monocle, and had a trick of raising her eyebrows and letting it fall on her ample bosom, which somehow made her yet more daunting.”

Also, since she always went by "Miss Anscombe," the staff at the hospital where she had her babies famously thought she was both single and a lesbian.

OK, you're right, she looks kinda like an Amishwoman. But an intimidating one.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

OK, you're right, she looks kinda like an Amishwoman. But an intimidating one.

She is not the slightest bit dyke-ish. Severe, yes. I doubt that she suffered fools lightly.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Boy, you got that right. You get the Perceptive Guy Gold Star!