RSM Responds to the Holy Father's Recent Statements

Pope John Paul II is quickly fading. Certainly it is time for all Catholics to offer prayers for him, and the Church. However, because of his illness the Rainbow Sash Movement cannot be silent when Pope’s inner Circle continues to orchestrate a world wide web of homophobia directed at the international GLBT Community.

Reasonable people can only conclude the Pope’s recent statements can only be viewed as homophobic. He certainly has a fear of gay/lesbian/bisexual/transgender persons, and that is the definition of the word homophobia. As an example of his words of fear the Pope recently said "Homosexual marriages are part of a ‘new ideology of evil’ that is insidiously threatening society, Pope John Paul says…" The pope is further quoted as saying that the endorsement of gay marriage "attempts to pit human rights against the family and against man."

The legitimate "ideology of evil" - the true insidious threat to our society - lies not in gay marriage, but in the heart of fundamentalist trying to impose their narrow version of rights and responsibilities on society.

Paraphrasing Archbishop Chaput's recent quip, we need to do this before they impose their insidious evils on us!

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