Let me be clear I don’t have a problem with religion in general or Catholic ideology specifically.
Having said that.....
Vatican leadership will be meeting this week to choose a new standard bearer. The previous leader resigned because he didn’t have the physical strength to meet the rigors of the job. Some point to the many pedophilia scandals and more recently a male prostitution scandal in Vatican City as the reason.
I may be in the minority, but I really don’t see the group that headquarters at Vatican City as a religious group. I see them more as a socio-political group. A group that wields great power and influence in many countries. Their influence penetrates, democratic, socialist, and communist governments. The group’s global reach is un-paralleled. This group has the potential to do great and even greater good.
Unfortunately I can’t take the group seriously until they come to grips with their most obvious flaw. The group has no self awareness.
The group doesn’t acknowledge that people are BORN gay. It’s true. I know this because I was BORN straight. I was born being attracted to women. No one had to tell or coach me to like women. It came naturally; just like I arrived at being right handed naturally.
Sidebar.... My brother and I had a god brother that had "gay mannerisms" when he was 2 years old. We lost touch with his family soon after. 17 years later we were invited to Thanksgiving Dinner and were told he would be there. On our way over, we were talking about all the people we were looking forward to seeing, and then we both mentioned him, and thought aloud... "I bet you he's gay.".... "Not that there is anything wrong with it." We just knew it though. Lo and behold when we got to dinner he and his boyfriend were sitting next to each other holding hands being thankful for one another.
PEOPLE ARE BORN GAY!
Very few people choose gay. How many people do you think would have the strength and self loathing to choose to be gay knowing that they have to deal with the world's ridicule?
The group also doesn’t acknowledge that "gay BORN" people seek priesthood in their group because they are ashamed, and are desperate to become asexual. So they can avoid dealing with what they really are. Then they subsequently yield to their sexuality knowing that the group’s hierarchy will cover-up their “transgressions.”
And most importantly!
The group doesn’t acknowledge that people born with a penis have an intense desire to put said penis into other people’s holes.
So here’s hoping during the group's vote this week that they take a really good look in the mirror. And if they really want to do good, put a young reformer in leadership that will have the intestinal fortitude to fix what been left broken for so many years. THE MIRROR.
