Pope Francis' Bogus Blessings. Trying to subordinate Gay relations into an unclear underclass. Reactionaries upset though.
This isn't a victory, but a way of subordinating Gays to an unclean cast without appearing to be homophobic and coopting Gays.
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Pope Francis Bogus Blessings. Back story.
So the story came out that Pope Francis approved for the Roman Catholic Church blessings for same sex couples. These are some articles on that.
There is the Associated Press story.
But while the Vatican statement was heralded by some as a step toward breaking down discrimination in the Catholic Church, some LGBTQ+ advocates warned it underscored the church’s idea that gay couples remain inferior to heterosexual partnerships.
It stressed that people in “irregular” unions of extramarital sex — gay or straight — are in a state of sin. But it said that shouldn’t deprive them of God’s love or mercy. “Even when a person’s relationship with God is clouded by sin, he can always ask for a blessing, stretching out his hand to God,” the document said.
https://apnews.com/article/vatican-lgbtq-pope-bfa5b71fa79055626e362936e739d1d8
“It will be possible to bless same-sex couples but without any type of ritualisation or offering the impression of a marriage,” the report said. Furthermore, “the doctrine regarding marriage does not change, and the blessing does not signify approval of the union”.
From the Guardian there is this point.
“It will be possible to bless same-sex couples but without any type of ritualisation or offering the impression of a marriage,” the report said. Furthermore, “the doctrine regarding marriage does not change, and the blessing does not signify approval of the union”.
The Catholic press explains that it isn’t any type of approval Gays or their marriages.
What Pope Francis did is more accurately explained in the following article, from the National Catholic Register which points out that the media, “mangled it beyond all recognition.”
https://www.ncregister.com/commentaries/did-pope-francis-authorize-priests-to-bless-same-sex-unions
From the National Catholic Register article.
If anything, the document could be understood to encourage blessings so that same-sex-attracted individuals (or any individual in what the document calls an “irregular” relationship) will be encouraged to live out God’s plan for human sexuality rather than their own. [Boldface added.]
So same-sex unions are “irregular” and the blessing is to encourage Gays to give up homosexuality. The Roman Catholic Church considers homosexual acts to be a sin, and “God’s plan” is to not to do homosexual acts.
Further in the article it states that the document:
At every turn, it confirms the teaching of the Catholic Church about same-sex and other relationships that do not qualify for the sacrament of marriage.
Further, as the major media reports, and National Catholic Register reports, the ceremony can’t resemble marriage. From the National Catholic Register.
Paragraph 4 of the declaration deems “inadmissible” any “rites and prayers that could create confusion between what constitutes marriage — which is the ‘exclusive stable, and indissoluble union between a man and a woman naturally open to the generation of children’ — and what contradicts it.”
And then there is this:
Paragraph 11, “the Church does not have the power to confer its liturgical blessing when that would somehow offer a form of moral legitimacy to a union that presumes to be a marriage or to an extra-marital sexual practice.”
There is a section, Paragraph 27, which explains that in reality the blessing is hope that the person gives up homosexuality.
The CNN report makes it much clearer and more concisely how bogus this “blessing is.”
Homosexuality is sin, same-sex marriage isn’t recognized. Further:
“When people ask for a blessing, an exhaustive moral analysis should not be placed as a precondition for conferring it,” the declaration, authored by Cardinal Fernandez and another official, states. “The grace of God works in the lives of those who do not claim to be righteous but who acknowledge themselves humbly as sinners, like everyone else.”
https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/18/europe/pope-francis-same-sex-couples-blessing-intl/index.html
Why this is pernicious and deadly to the Gay community.
[1] If a Gay couple gets this blessing, they necessarily are accepting that their relationship isn’t valid and they are sinners.
[2] They are giving credibility to the Roman Catholic Church’s authority to judge homosexuality as sin.
[3] They are supporting the efforts of the Roman Catholic church to have Gays give up homosexual activity.
It is something designed to make Gay couples an underclass of the unclean.
This so-called blessing is to lure Gays into an underclass unclean status.
Now Roman Catholic Gays will chatter on that they accept the blessing, but not the judgement of the Roman Catholic church on homosexuality. The rationalizations will be endless.
However a blessing has value based on the standing of the person and institution giving the blessing. The Gays accepting this blessing are valuing a blessing from an institution that sees their relationship as sin and giving standing to this homophobic Church. The blessing can’t be seen as valuable unless the institution or person giving the blessing is considered credible and good.
The Gay couples are being blessed as sinners.
The Gay couples being bless by the Roman Catholic Church are giving authority to the Roman Catholic Church as being a credible church.
The Catholic Church is willing to piss on Gay couples and the Gay Catholics are estatic.
This blessing thing is likely to be geographically restricted.
It seems this policy will be limited to feeding stuff and nonsense to goofy Gay Catholics in the Western world. Elsewhere it will be business as usual for the Catholic Church.
It never occurs to these people that their religion came from colonial gunboats and slavers.
Of course the Gay Catholics are goofy over this.
From the Reuters article in the link at the beginning of this post.
Father James Martin, a prominent American Jesuit priest who ministers to the LGBT community, called the document "a major step forward in the church's ministry" to them.
Francis DeBernardo, executive director of New Ways Ministry, a group that advocates for LGBT rights in the Church, said the document's importance "cannot be overstated". He praised the document's wording that people seeking blessings should not be subjected to "an exhaustive moral analysis".
This is the New Ways Ministry’s website.
https://www.newwaysministry.org/
This is their article on the new policy of so-called blessings.
It shows how little Gay Catholic expectations are.
This is the declaration by another group of Catholic Gay goofies.
The following would be incomprehensible to them.
This isn’t the first time Gay Catholics and other elements in the Gay community have treated something by Pope Francis as being something positive when it really wasn’t.
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Once again we see Gay Catholics undermine the Gay community in their groveling for acceptance. Once again we see Gay Catholics hold up a poison berry and declare it is a pearl.
Reactionaries are upset though.
They want a full out hating campaign and Pope Francis is putting an end to that. Some might try to argue that the opposition of these type of people is proof that Pope Francis’ declaration is really a good thing. It isn’t. Francis just isn’t as crazy as some other Catholics are.
There is a silver lining.
There is a real possibility that the Roman Catholic Church could break up or lose members in parts of the world.
Pope Francis is trapped between the need for the Roman Catholic church to be credible in North and South America, Europe and the Far East and elsewhere, but at the same time there is the homophobia in Africa and the reactionaries in his church. It really is a no-win situation. Consider these clowns.
It never occurs to these people that their religion came from colonial gunboats and slavers.
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