I know I've written oh-so-many posts on Pope Benedict XVI and his ridiculously horrendous reputation concerning reproductive and LGBT rights, but I felt like I had to keep y'all updated on his (wrong)doings -- after all, he is the leader of the largest branch of Christianity in the world. Via CBC News:
Pope Benedict used an audience with local politicians on Thursday to reiterate the Catholic Church's objections to both abortion and gay marriage.Benedict spoke of the need to help pregnant women and said medical officials should not prescribe any kind of pill that terminates a pregnancy.
Officials, he said, should ‘avoid introducing drugs that hide in some way the gravity of abortion, as a choice against life.’
As well, the Pope said the union of a man and a woman is not a ‘casual sociological construction’ and suggested that efforts to allow gay marriage ‘obscure the value and function of the legitimate family founded on matrimony.’
The Italian Bishop’s Conference has sparked the debate over abortion and the RU-486 pill, turning it into a campaign issue (the general elections are due in April) for the first time since 1981 when the church attempted to overturn the legalization of abortion.
The Pope’s reasoning behind his comments on the illegitimacy of gay marriage was simply that “there really is no social need.”
Nah, not at all.
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I like to call him B Dizzle, since he has so much bling.
I really really hate that man...*sigh*.
Woo. "Buying a truck obscures the value and social function of a car."
And maybe there's "no real social need" in a palace in Vatican City surrounded by assistants and guards and hangers-on, where your every word is law. How about joining the rest of us in the *real* world?
And how does the abortion pill "hide the gravity" of abortion? Doesn't it induce a miscarriage so that one's own body, rather than a doctor, does the work of removing the unwanted matter? What, does he want everyone who has an abortion to wait until it's mid-term and a more complicated surgical procedure?
Is it me, or has the Catholic Church not once addressed the autonomy issue? I wonder what the Pope's opinion is regarding whether a person who is a genetic match to a dying cancer patient should be forced to donate tissue or a redundant organ.
I've managed to save up roughly $37218 in my bank account, but I'm not sure if I should buy a house or not. Do you think the market is stable or do you think that home prices will decrease by a lot?