Today In The Gay
Nov. 29th, 2005 08:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
c9- Today the Vatican released their new (and unsurprising) policy on allowing gay men to be priests. In short, no more flaming in the sachristy. Deep-seated homosexual tendencies, which the Vatican calls disordered, disqualify one. "Transitory tendencies" would be OK if you've been celibate for three years.
The editor of the Catholic New Times estimates that 30-50% of priests in the Catholic Church are gay. And stated on CBC that 50% of Catholic churches are currently without a priest. Hmmm, good plan Benedict! - Today the Canadian election started, and Stephen Harper, almost before the writ had left Martin's hand, was already talking about repealing equal marriage for same-sex couples. For pete's sake, is he stupid? I mean, seriously.
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Date: 2005-11-30 02:49 am (UTC)1. Human rights should not be subject to a majority vote. If they were, blacks would still be slaves, and women would never have gotten the vote.
2. He spent years claiming that Parliament should decide this issue rather than judges. And in May, Parliament finally did. Now he says that doesn't count and he wants to ask again? How many times will he want to ask? I don't believe that the issue will be closed: he has changed his story on equal marriage several times already, and cannot be trusted on that point.
3. Over two-thirds of Canadians are sick of the issue, and consider it closed, and do not want to discuss it.
4. Well over half of Canadians support equal marriage, and therefore repealing the law would actually be ignoring majority interest anyway, in favour of the small but vocal anti-gay religious conservatives and conservative right.
5. Referenda cost megabucks, and we're already spending over $210 million on this election, plus $212 million on the last one just last year. Waste of money on an issue already dealt with.
6. There are children living and dying on the streets of Canadian cities and towns. Why the fuck is he not actually dealing with something that is an actual problem, instead of wandering around in anti-gay pointless land?
Bit of a rant there. :-)