Tuesday, November 22, 2005
Rooting out "gay culture"
Apparently the Vatican document on gays in the priesthood was posted on an Italian news service website prior to next week's official release:
The long-awaited document is scheduled to be released by the Vatican next Tuesday. A church official who has read the document confirmed the authenticity of the Internet posting by the Adista news agency.
The document said that "the Church, while deeply respecting the people in question, cannot admit to the seminary and the sacred orders those who practice homosexuality, present deeply rooted homosexual tendencies or support so-called gay culture."
I'm anxious to read the document itself, especially the reference to the support of "gay culture." I'm assuming that the Vatican is not particularly concerned with our pop-culture conceptions of that term, but I'm wondering what it means in particular: Support for civil rights for gays? Support for gay marriage? Support for equal treatment of the gay lifestyle within the Church? Embracing the gay lifestyle as an equally viable alternative to heterosexuality in general? An unabashed devotion to Queer Eye? Or something else?
Rob
https://mirrorofjustice.blogs.com/mirrorofjustice/2005/11/rooting_out_gay.html