Posted on 03/13/2023 8:07:33 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
When you’ve even lost woke Pope Francis, what’s left? Watch for furious Leftists to start characterizing the pontiff, hitherto a reliable ally, as a bigoted, hate-filled, right-wing extremist for daring to criticize “gender ideology.” In a strange turnaround for the pope, who has recently heartened the LGBTQ industry with some supportive statements that skirted the outer limits of Roman Catholic orthodoxy, Francis even characterized the trans craze as “dangerous.”
The Catholic News Agency (CNA) reported Saturday that Pope Francis called today’s fashionable gender madness “one of the most dangerous ideological colonizations” of our age. “Why is it dangerous? Because it blurs differences and the value of men and women.” For those who might not see that as actually dangerous, the pope explained, “All humanity is the tension of differences. It is to grow through the tension of differences. The question of gender is diluting the differences and making the world the same, all dull, all alike, and that is contrary to the human vocation.” Yes, and besides that, it is destroying people’s lives in ways they generally don’t realize until it is too late to undo the damage.
Pope Francis has actually said this before. CNA notes that the pope has in the past used the term “ideological colonization” in order to “describe instances when aid money for developing countries has been tied to contraceptives, abortion, sterilization, and gender ideologies.” Back in 2016, he lamented that “today children — children — are taught in school that everyone can choose his or her sex. Why are they teaching this? Because the books are provided by the people and institutions that give you money. These forms of ideological colonization are also supported by influential countries. And this is terrible!”
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Some people who push this nonsense may indeed be a bit naïve, but others almost certainly know exactly the damage they’re causing yet pursue it for woke points or to make a buck.
Still, the pope was spot-on when he said that gender madness advocates “do not distinguish what is respect for sexual diversity or diverse sexual preferences from what is already an anthropology of gender, which is extremely dangerous because it eliminates differences, and that erases humanity, the richness of humanity, both personal, cultural, and social, the diversities and the tensions between differences.”
It would have been helpful if the pope had expatiated on just how dangerous and destructive these delusions are, but hey, can’t have everything.
he’s in the camp of gays who just like men and don’t want trans stuff messing that up
Don’t worry LBGQT+ people, next month he’ll issue a different message that we’re all equal and on the right path and everything will turn out okay.
Talk is cheap.
Pot calls kettle black.
One problem with Pope Francis (and there are many) is that he has diarrhea of the mouth. He won’t shut up. He gives his personal opinion on a lot of issues and its normally off the cuff without much thought. So its inconsistent. That may be OK for the guy sitting on a bar stool shooting off his mouth to his friends but its not OK for the leader of the Catholic Church. Most people in high authority learn to NOT give their opinion so freely.
Broken clock!
Yes, he’s been consistent on gender ideology. There’s been no turnaround on this issue. He’s called it an attack on the Creator and creation because God creates us male and female. His rhetoric on homosexuality has been confusing though it should be pointed out that he has always maintained that so-called gay marriage does not even remotely resemble marriage between a man and a woman, the only kind of marriage possible.
“he’s in the camp of gays who just like men and don’t want trans stuff messing that up”
I say this in jest... but I am not assured that it won’t happen... it’s getting that weird...
I wonder when they’ll have their first trans nun...
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