I continue to respect your objections to the Catholic Church's utterly unacceptable position on homosexuality, but the Pope's failure to stop murderously homophobic American Protestants from promoting vicious new laws around the world doesn't put the RCC on an equal moral footing. There are degrees of things.
When we spoke before and you put Uganda in the Pope's basket, I found this:
http://www.gaystarnews.com/article/pope-francis’-representative-uganda-concerned-new-anti-gay-law291213
Pope Francis’ representative to Uganda has expressed his shock at lawmakers passing a bill that would see people imprisoned for life for having gay sex, reiterating the church’s opposition to the bill. -
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I am writing to you about a grave matter in terms of human rights abuses towards LGBT persons in Uganda,’ McLauchlin wrote.
‘Uganda’s Parliament recently passed a bill calling for tougher punishments for homosexual acts, including life imprisonment for those considered “repeat offenders.” In addition, this bill also criminalizes the public promotion of homosexuality. Once the President of Uganda signs the legislation, it will become law.
‘I am gravely concerned that a number of human rights violations will occur if the President signs this bill. Although the Catholic Hierarchy may not approve of same-sex relationships or a homosexual lifestyle, I believe the Hierarchy would agree that everyone has the right to be treated with dignity and respect. Imprisoning someone for life would clearly constitute an abuse of his/her rights.’
It's terrible the Pope has not yet reversed 2,000 years of wrong thinking contained in the Bible, but it's not his his church traveling the world screaming that gay people are dangerous pedophiles that need to be killed.
I would think placing that blame where it belongs would be more important than harping on your objections to people acknowledging "baby steps" by the RCC toward more ethical doctrine, but apparently that is not the case.
Oh well.
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