I'm really worried now that the best hope we've ever had in the Catholic Church for reform is quickly dying.
From Gay Star News:
'Let's think of the nuclear arms, of the possibility to annihilate in a few instants a very high number of human beings,' he says.
'Let's think also of genetic manipulation, of the manipulation of life, or of the gender theory, that does not recognize the order of creation.'
'With this attitude, man commits a new sin, that against God the Creator,' the pope adds.
'The true custody of creation does not have anything to do with the ideologies that consider man like an accident, like a problem to eliminate.'
'God has placed man and woman and the summit of creation and has entrusted them with the earth,' Francis says. 'The design of the Creator is written in nature.'
'If we fail in this responsibility, if we do not take care of our brothers and of all creation, destruction advances,' he added.
When he says that a person should expect violence for saying something offensive, and endorses Slovakia's anti-gay constitutional referendum, and then says this, which is something I'd expect from Ratzy, I am really starting to think that he's dead to me now.
It's also indicative of the sad fact that while gay people are much more accepted, the same cannot be said for transgender people. This has to change.
Unfortunately, not even an allegedly reformist pope can do it.
Great job, Catholic Church. You continue to be a breeding ground for bigotry and prejudice.