{"id":209,"date":"2006-05-15T06:30:36","date_gmt":"2006-05-15T11:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/209"},"modified":"2025-04-22T09:33:35","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T14:33:35","slug":"cartoon-popes-and-lovers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/209","title":{"rendered":"Cartoon: Popes And Lovers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Homosexuals Don’t Love…They Just Have Sex…<\/em><\/p>\n

Even among those who claim to “love the sinner and hate the sin”, this is bedrock.\u00a0 I’ve had bigots tell me to my face that gay lovers don’t love as wholly, or as purely, as heterosexual lovers do.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 We don’t love, we don’t honor, we don’t care.\u00a0 We don’t feel any higher human emotions, no great joy or awe in a lover’s embrace.\u00a0 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 <\/em>sort, civil unions or otherwise.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 They think homosexuals are less then human, and nothing shows it better then their contempt, their utter denial, that gay lovers actually love.<\/p>\n

The current pope (the Cardinal formally known as Ratzinger), launched another broadside against homosexual people last week<\/a>, by way of attacking Italy’s new left of center government.\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n

It seems in the Catholic church lately, gays are the new Jews.\u00a0 Or at any rate, the hate that can dare speak it’s name sixty years after the Holocaust.\u00a0 And it’s having its effect.\u00a0 Attacks on homosexuals, particularly in non-industrial nations with a strong Catholic presence, are becoming more common, and much more violent.\u00a0 In the Caribbean, in central America, in Africa, and even in Brazil, violence against homosexuals is on the rise and it is killing people.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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”.\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n

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Homosexuals Don’t Love…They Just Have Sex… Even among those who claim to “love the sinner and hate the sin”, this is bedrock.\u00a0 I’ve had bigots tell me to my face that gay lovers don’t love as wholly, or as purely, as heterosexual lovers do.\u00a0 When Senator Rick Santorum compared same sex marriage to a man […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[13,12],"class_list":["post-209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-religion","tag-the-struggle-for-our-lives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13678,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions\/13678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}