Holy See Gay Punishment

Under Pope Benedict XVI, the Catholic hierarchy is launching a new all out cultural war on gays.  Their edicts in the past few years reasserting that  ‘homosexuality is an intrinsic moral evil’ is now being bolstered by  ‘reparative therapy’ programs.

The current regime is getting into local politics too, threatening to withhold services to the poor in Washington DC if that principality passes legislation that allows same-sex marriage in the district. No mention of the tax exemptions they enjoy at the expense of tax paying homos.

They know how to play hardball.

Just last month the church announced it would accept married Episcopal priests and allow them to serve as Catholic priests as a way for Anglicans to escape their church’s tolerance of GLBT people. 

Other than the fact that the church obviously bends their own rules when it suits them, it is deplorable that they can’t just allow another sect because they desperately need new priests (Draconian methods exacting a price? maybe?) they have to use it as an opportunity to slam gays.  

I, of course have been accused of being anti-Catholic. I’m even sited in a book called ‘The New Anti-Catholic’ over my article ‘Holy Gay Purge’ about how the church visciously equated gay priests with pedophiles.

Nothing could be further from the truth. Actually, I respect all religions even though I belong to none. I just don’t trust religious politics or bankrupt sanctimony as practiced by religious tyrants.  

As my friend and very spiritual ex-Catholic friend John Way said many times before his death at 85 “Never trust a man in a bad dress.”

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A year ago CNN peerless political analyst David Gergen was incredulous that the political chatter focused on how much Sarah Palin spent on wardrobe and makeup for her VP run. This week Gergen seemed certain that Palin is not laying the foundation to run for the presidency in 2012, while she is hawking her book Going Rogue everywhere.

Even though I agree that she is probably smarter than she comes off, under no-nonsense questioning by Barbara Walters it is obvious that this politician does not have a grasp on any issue. She lives in a fictional world of her own making funded by Alaskan oil money and the Republican party. This new bestseller author is a stylist, not a journalist. No need for logic, history or even sentence structure.

For Walters, she has studied her keywords certainly, so she wouldn’t be thrown by such brain teasers as what newspapers she read. Her word of the day was “dithering” but the party line phraseology is at odds with her ‘betcha, gee, golly syntax. And her clueless, divisive sentiments expressed in her center ring phrases like ‘real American families’ tell the real Palin story.

I would have liked Barbara to ask why the former journalism student used a ghost writer.  How rogue can someone go when someone else is writing you memoir?

That and why she was part of the rightwing hit team that took out Dede Scozzafava in New York running for a house seat and  for not being a litmus test Republican. Even though Candy Crowley said Palin was ‘plutonium’ outside the party, her star is obviously still firing deadly asteroids.