Cartoon: Popes And Lovers
Homosexuals Don’t Love…They Just Have Sex…
Even among those who claim to "love the sinner and hate the sin", this is bedrock. I’ve had bigots tell me to my face that gay lovers don’t love as wholly, or as purely, as heterosexual lovers do. When Senator Rick Santorum compared same sex marriage to a man wanting to marry his dog, he spoke for the many, who believe literally that same sex lovers exist on the same plain as fucking animals. We don’t love, we don’t honor, we don’t care. We don’t feel any higher human emotions, no great joy or awe in a lover’s embrace. All we feel is mindless senseless lust for something that only happens to be another human being. This is the passion behind the fight against same sex marriage rights of Any sort, civil unions or otherwise. To even suggest that gay couples be given any legal status other then perhaps a criminal one, is to literally place their own marriages on the same par as bestiality. They think homosexuals are less then human, and nothing shows it better then their contempt, their utter denial, that gay lovers actually love.
The current pope (the Cardinal formally known as Ratzinger), launched another broadside against homosexual people last week, by way of attacking Italy’s new left of center government. Calling same sex love "weak", Ratzinger warned that he would use all the power of the Vatican if Italy gave same sex couples any rights that heterosexuals are bound to respect.
It seems in the Catholic church lately, gays are the new Jews. Or at any rate, the hate that can dare speak it’s name sixty years after the Holocaust. And it’s having its effect. Attacks on homosexuals, particularly in non-industrial nations with a strong Catholic presence, are becoming more common, and much more violent. In the Caribbean, in central America, in Africa, and even in Brazil, violence against homosexuals is on the rise and it is killing people.
And yet in the face of all the hatred and violence organized religion can incite, gay people still take their lover’s hand in theirs and say "I love you". If they had clue one what it means to actually love someone, Ratzinger and his henchmen would get on their knees and beg God nonstop for the rest of their miserable lives to know a love that strong, even if only for a day.
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May 16th, 2006 at 10:09 pm
I love the reptilian tale. Perfect touch.
May 17th, 2006 at 9:10 am
Hey, Thanks! But think mammalian…rodentia…
May 18th, 2006 at 3:29 pm
Hah. RAT-zinger. My rodent alter-ego will never stand for this insult; he must devour the Pope at once in the name of vengeance. He’d better take ketchup.
“Only the foundation of complete and irrevocable love between man and woman” –Pope
Right, the complete and irrevocable love that results in a 50% divorce rate. How could a gay person *ever* comprehend a force of such power and purity?
May 18th, 2006 at 7:23 pm
Good point. And yet I have had creeps tell me on line, essentially to my face that same sex couples just don’t love as deeply or as purely as opposite sex couples do.
There’s this quote from Heinlein’s The Notebooks of Lazarus Long where he states that …copulation at its spiritual best is so much more than physical coupling that it is different in kind as well as in degree. The saddest feature of homosexuality is not that it is ‘wrong’ or ‘sinful’ or even that it can’t lead to progeny–but that it is more difficult to reach through it this spiritual union. Not impossible–but the cards are stacked against it.
Now…that’s just plain bullshit. Yeah…if you’re not homosexual the odds are good and stacked against. But if you are that’s exactly where that spiritual best is. But its a matter of faith among many of them, that we’re some kind of damaged goods at best. I’ve no idea if Heinlein believed that to his dying day or not. But it’s the kind of thing you just keep running into.
May 19th, 2006 at 2:08 pm
Of course, any statements like these are based on a flawed premise: that a person’s emotional intensity is quantifiable and can be objectively measured in the same way as, say, his weight. It’s especially laughable coming from a man who has spent his life suppressing any hint of feeling the “complete and irrevocable love” that he’s so enamored with