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In reply to the discussion: I dont understand why liberals started a love affair with the Pope, and now I don't understand [View all]LostOne4Ever
(9,752 posts)[font style="font-family:'Georgia','Baskerville Old Face','Helvetica',fantasy;" size=4 color=teal]Because we care about the rights and lives of everyone and are not willing to shove women, the LGBTQ community, and those dying of terminal illnesses under the bus just because he say nice things about the poor and the environment*.
Would you stop denouncing people like Rick Santorum just because he supports raising the minimum wage? Would you be supportive of people praising George Wallace on Economic issues while shoving African Americans under the bus?
The pope, is quite simply, the most powerful and influential opponent on Gender and sexual minority rights, on women's rights, on contraception, on right to death with dignity laws. He is actively harming people and we are to stay quiet?
I get the anger at the man, I get those who supported him at first before the facts came out, but I don't get those who claim to support social justice and yet still praise him now that we know that he things he has said and done. From saying gay adoption is child abuse, to calling marriage equality the work of the devil, comparing gender theory to dictators of the 20th century, to comparing transgender people to nuclear weapons, and now canonizing a man who committed cultural genocide and supporting a bigot clerk who used her government position to deny others their rights..
It makes no sense to me.[/font]
*which makes no sense without also supporting population control