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Victim Or Victimizer? Catholic Church, Diaz’s Gay Equality Intolerance |
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Díaz is to be condemned for more than just endorsing the idea that God says gays are “worthy of death.” He calculatingly scheduled his May 15 anti-gay hate rally on the same day as this year’s annual New York Aids Walk, so people would not be available to protest at his anti-gay hate rally — forcing some to choose between their love of their brand of religion and their love of a loved one.
Diaz and the Church are not the victims. Indeed, they are the victimizers.
Yeah they are.
- 6 votes
#1 - Mon Jun 13, 2011 8:21 AM EDTThe Catholic Church has always been the victimizers. One only has to look at their history. I find anything that they say or do to be self=serving. Their protection of the pedophiles and payoffs to those that they destroyed is amble example of their two-faced, hypocritical ways.
- 6 votes
#2 - Mon Jun 13, 2011 9:17 AM EDTThe Catholic hierarchy hates everything that they can't control.
- 5 votes
This display of hate is one more nail in their coffin. Unfortunately every nail makes them play the martyr even more.
I will be relieved come the day the church, it's authorities and central administration falls. I don't mind the individual christians, I despise their dogmatic leaders and greedy administration.
- 4 votes
The church can choose to be relevant or not. Idiocy like this pushes them further into a history footnote.
- 5 votes
#3 - Mon Jun 13, 2011 9:21 AM EDTI used to be an ardent Catholic. I taught Sunday School, my kids went to Catholic School. It began to unravel for me as I studied the Bible more closely & then other books that were "banned" by my chosen religion. Then I began to examine my conscience when it came to denying people their rights & lives simply by who they were. I began to search my heart & realized I could not support a religion that didn't give a @!$%# about women, people that don't fit into their pigeon-holes, and the poor. I could not support a religion that protected men that abused women & children. I could not support a religion where the priests took a vow of poverty and lived in palaces & mansions & ate like gluttons while people around the world are starving. I could not support a religion that has gold, treasures, artwork - kept hidden & horded while people are homeless & hungry - IS that what their Christ came down here to do?
I now follow a more Pagan nature - I do believe that Jesus came (I have a personal experience that has led to that belief), but I believe he came as a prophet & to teach, not as the Son of God.
So for all that I believe as a former Catholic that the Church has brought all the hatred others feel for the Church upon themselves. They placed themselves above all others only to be shown as a safe haven for abusers.
- 2 votes
#4 - Mon Jun 13, 2011 10:53 AM EDTSo for all that I believe as a former Catholic that the Church has brought all the hatred others feel for the Church upon themselves. They placed themselves above all others only to be shown as a safe haven for abusers.
It's refreshing to hear a former catholic define the church as others see it.
- 4 votes
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