Pope Benedict: Even If God Did Make You Gay, You Still Should Not Be Gay

[WillParkinson]

Pope Benedict: Even If God Did Make You Gay, You Still Should Not Be Gay

In another excerpt from his coming book/interview, Pope Benedict says that he doesn't know if people are born gay or not. But even if God did make you this way, you shouldn't BE this way. Or something.

He said it was still an open question whether homosexual inclinations are innate or arise early in life. In any case, he said, if these are strong inclinations, it represents "a great trial" for the homosexual. "But this does not mean that homosexuality thereby becomes morally right. Rather, it remains contrary to the essence of what God originally willed," he said.

Remember, God doesn't make mistakes. But if he DOES make mistakes, that's your problem to deal with. Benedict also says there's no inherent contradiction in calling homosexuals "intrinsically disordered" and still offering them respect. Got that? Yes, you are a mentally ill freak. But we mean that in the nicest way.

http://joemygod.blogspot.com/2010/11/pope-benedict-even-if-god-did-make-you.html

[no_hypocrisy]

1. Whatever happened to "It's God's Will . . . . "?

[RetiredTrotskyite]

18. That Doesn't Work for GLBTs, I guess...The Pope Is An Idiot!

[aquart]

2. So he KNOWS gays are a mistake infallible God made?

He knows better than God, does he?

[gateley]

3. When I was younger, the Church taught that the Pope was infallible.

I'm not kidding.

I honestly don't know if people still believe that these days. God I hope not.

[TheWraith]

10. Unfortunately, that's one of the central tenets of the papacy.

Not "I know better than God" as such, but basically that whatever the Pope says is the divine word of God, period, and he's always right. Even when he contradicts previous church rule--the presumption is that the nature of God's law and the universe just changes depending on the mood the Pope is in.

[Ian David]

4. Pope Ratso thinks god made you gay to test you, I guess.

Just like he gives children cancer to test the faith of their parents.

[ruggerson]

5. Did God make you join the Hitler youth?

n/t

[Drale]

6. WTF

and here I thought the catholic church might be making some small steps forward on social issues but I guess I was wrong.

[TheWraith]

11. You're not wrong, they are making small steps.

They've moved themselves all the way forward into the 15th Century.

[dixiegrrrrl]

7. I am sending the Pope a book:

[LiberalFighter]

8. So if god made him the Pope. Does that mean he should not be the Pope?

[LiberalFighter]

9. But even if God did make you this way, you shouldn't BE this way. NUTS

What does he have to say with those born with congenital defects? Or with both sexual organs?

They really need to quarantine the Vatican.

[crim son]

12. Oh, indeed, that belief is what has enabled the church to knowlingly

have gay priests and lesbian nuns. Everybody is welcome to the church, as long as you don't practice your "sin." They apply the same logic to pedophilia where it does look like logic. It's hard for me to understand why any gay person would want to be a Catholic, but then, it's hard for me to understand why anybody would want to be a Catholic. (I'm an ex-Catholic.)

[HockeyMom]

13. If god make him straight, then why isn't he

marrying and making as many babies as god wants? Isn't HE not living according to what god wants man to do; "be fruitful and multiple"? Isn't HE sinning, but not following god's law?

[14thColony]

16. What a great point! I'd like to see him dance around that one. nt

[thereismore]

17. No, because God also said that it's better for a man to remain single and devote himself to God.

No joke. :crazy:

[RetiredTrotskyite]

20. You're Right, But Homophobes...

alway seem to find excuses for their own sins.

[originalpckelly]

25. In other words, it's OK to be gay for God...

but not for other men? I guess it puts all that getting down on your knees to eat Jesus in perspective.

[applegrove]

14. How does he know what god willed? He wasn't there when god made the first gay person!!!

[joeybee12]

15. Sigh...I guess my standard response is due...Fuck you, ratzi the nazi...nt

[Enthusiast]

19. Is it a sin to

call the pope a sick fuck?

[MNBrewer]

21. Nope

[ShadowLiberal]

22. So in other words it's sinful to exist if you're gay

That's just about the same as the logic in other ultra conservative theocracies throughout the world, their logic is that it's a crime punishable by death to be gay.

[Enthusiast]

23. Pope Benedict stands in stark

contrast to Pope John Paul. Benedict is returning the church to the hypocrisy levels of the past. This ain't good.

[originalpckelly]

24. "Hey Pope, why do you think I created Adam first and without clothes?

I tend to think of myself as a gay omnipotent thing. Wouldn't you know that the first time I fucked a chick I got her pregnant. That's fucked up. Well, even Heavenly Pleasures brand condoms break from time to time. BUT ON THE FIRST TRY!"

[Deep13]

26. To clarify: Pope knows more about what God wants than God does. nt

[donco6]

27. In other words, "No! It DOESN'T get *better*!"

You're doomed to a life of loneliness and sexual frustration because God made you gay but you can never act on it! Hahahaha! Sucks to be you, dude.

And if that's really the way God is, I want absolutely no part of It.

[Evasporque]

28. Even if God made you an ignorant f*ck...don't be...nt