What happens when you take one of the most powerful, most influential world-wide “governments” with unfettered access to all the accumulated knowledge of Western Civilization and allow them to speak on the environment, nature’s “law,” sexual orientation and gender?
They ignore it, trash it, squander it — and sound like they’ve never taken a serious look at human biology in their entire 2,000 year existence.
Recently, Pope Benedict XVI said, “[The church] must defend not only the earth, water and air as gifts of creation that belong to all. It must also defend the human person against its own destruction. What’s needed is something like a ‘human ecology,’ understood in the right sense. It’s not simply an outdated metaphysics if the church speaks of the nature of the human person as man and woman, and asks that this order of creation be respected.”
From CNSNews.com (h/t DailyQueerNews):
The pope was saying that man is made in the image of God and is therefore “unique” among all species and has authority over nature, Fr. [George William] Rutler told CNSNews.com, adding that realities such as gender – man and woman – are not arbitrary developments in biology, or accidents, but are clearly defined in the natural world for a reason.
If a person rejects nature’s assigning of gender, or tries to change it, then that is disruptive to nature and destructive, said Rutler. The natural environment must be responsibly protected, as the pope mentioned in reference to rain forests, but so must the natural order in men and women, said Rutler.
Rutler says the pope never mentioned gays specifically, but that gays are unable to accept the pope’s defense of the “natural order.”
Any body who’s even gone to a cheap U.S. public university knows there’s more than just “male” and “female.” God made some folks in the middle, too, it seems. Maybe they should read up on intersexuality. Then again, that’d mess up that whole literal translation thing in Genesis.
A world-wide body of knowledge and not a single iota of wisdom used. I guess this is kind of like the whole sun-at-the-center-of-the-universe controversy 500 years ago. We’ll get an apology in about, oh, 499 years, 364 days and a few minutes.
