Posted on 04/08/2009 10:41:06 AM PDT by TaraP
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
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One of Tony Blair’s kids must be gay inorder for him, a newly made Catholic to say that to the Pope.
How can the Pope be wrong on homosexuality when such an edict comes directly from the Holy Bible! Tony Blair is a !@#$%^&*! moron!
According to Merriam-Webster: metaphorical is -
1: a figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally denoting one kind of object or idea is used in place of another to suggest a likeness or analogy between them.
I would like to know exactly what other aberrant behavior he is talking about.
Just what we need: Another “progressive” Catholic.
MORE On TONY BLAIR:
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In between bites of an orange on a balcony in the fabled American Colony Hotel in Jerusalem, Tony Blair, ex–British Prime Minister and current mediator for the Quartet - the United States, Russia, the European Union and the United Nations - in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, spoke candidly with TIME’s Jerusalem bureau chief Tim McGirk about the obstacles to peace. Earlier, Blair had met with Benjamin Netanyahu, the hawkish new Israeli premier, who says he will keep talking peace but left open the question of whether Israel would accept a Palestinian state. “One thing I learned,” says Blair, “is that you simply just don’t give up
http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20090408/wl_time/08599188992600;_ylt=AtSubXZo2hVELm8FEdqJ5jN0bBAF
The pope, like myself, is decorated dust.
However, the Word of God says that homosexuality is an abomination and shouldn’t be “celebrated” as an equally moral choice as marriage between a man and woman.
Like I’ve said elsewhere,
liberal “Christians” must discount the Word of God
and not treat it as authoritative,
because there is no way to justify liberal ideology
against the Word.
Tony Blair ought to figure out if he is "comfortable" in being a Catholic and being associated with its teachings. He can't have it both ways, if you know what I mean...
oh geez - well if Tony Blair says that’s how things oughta be, then there ya go.
What could the pope possibly be thinking?
On a side note, just how DO you tell if an Englishman is gay?
hmmmmm
“How can the Pope be wrong on homosexuality when such an edict comes directly from the Holy Bible! Tony Blair is a !@#$%^&*! moron!”
Bingo! It looks like we have a winner here! Like I said one of his sons must be gay.
I was thinking Blair was speaking from personal experience.
Further proof that Liberals want to control what religions can and cannot believe. There is no such thing as freedom of religion in a Leftist Utopia.
On a side note, just how DO you tell if an Englishman is gay?
There’s a punchline to an old joke that might not make it past the moderator.
I thought they were ALL queer.
There’s always FReepmail... :)
That’s the joke...
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