Tony Blair Tells The Pope: You're Wrong On Homosexuality

London Times ^ | April 07, 2009

[Kozak]

Pretty cheeky for a brand spanking new Catholic.

[chase19]

“So Blair is just one more infiltrator to the Church in an attempt to undermine it from within.”

Bingo.

[chase19]

The whole world community appears to be jumping on the bandwagon to whack our dear Pope. We just need him to stay strong. Pray hard for this beautiful man of God.

[Alex Murphy]

Tony Blair has challenged the “entrenched” attitudes of the Pope on homosexuality, and argued that it is time for him to “rethink” his views.

Speaking to the gay magazine Attitude, the former Prime Minister, himself now a Roman Catholic, said that he wanted to urge religious figures everywhere to reinterpret their religious texts to see them as metaphorical, not literal, and suggested that in time this would make all religious groups accept gay people as equals.

And as they were going along the road they came to some salt, and the eunuch said, "See, here is salt! What prevents me from having it rubbed in my wound?"
- Acts 8:36, AMV (Alex Murphy Version)

[ReformationFan]

‘He said: “When people quote the passages in Leviticus condemning homosexuality, I say to them — if you read the whole of the Old Testament and took everything that was there in a literal way, as being what God and religion is about, you’d have some pretty tough policies across the whole of the piece.”’

Notice how old Tony doesn’t have the courage to deal with these New Testament passages of Romans 1:24-27, I Corinthians 6:9-10, I Timothy 1:10 or with how Jesus Himself defined marriage as involving one male and one female in Matthew 19:4-6 and how He condemned all sex outside of marriage(under the Matthew 19:4-6 definition) in Mark 7:21.

Exactly, why are we supposed to be impressed with Blair? Give me the Winston Churchills and Iron Ladies of yesteryear any day over this dufus who’s presided over the secularization and Islamification of a once great nation.

[massmike]

Uh...Tony...?It’s pretty clear that Jesus,(you,know...the guy that Christianity is founded on...),thought marriage was one man and one woman.(Matthew 19:4-6).Perhaps you’d like to take it up with Him?

[littlehouse36]

As my non-Catholic father used to say, Be a Catholic or don't be a Catholic. But don't get into the Church and try to change it to suit yourself.

Kudos to your father! Reminds me of my Presbyterian grandmother, who showed more respect for the Pope than the self-described Catholics in my family.

[Patriotic1]

Someone needs to give him the Catechism so he can see for himself that it’s not just the Pope’s opinion.

[massmike]

Tony Blair:”Well,what does Jesus have to do with Christianity anyway?”

[Salvation]

A mistake on Blair’s part. He’s a new Catholic, I have to cut him some slack.

[LiteKeeper]

Baloney!!

[Oratam]

Stay faithful my friend.

[Straight Vermonter]

The next thing you know a British leader will be telling us that Jesus was wrong on that whole divorce thing too.

[GCC Catholic]

A mistake on Blair’s part. He’s a new Catholic, I have to cut him some slack.

Fair enough. Blair still needs a call from his pastor or from his bishop, because he went and made it a public matter.

[Waco]

B.S.P.H.D.!!!

[ckilmer]

Here's a pretty good prayer song