I'm not religious. I know I sound like it sometimes, but that's because I was indoctrinated at an early age, and I often think in religious terms. I was raised Catholic (pre-Vatican II) and I know the mind set, the dogma, the mystical beauty, as well as the disturbing elements of this religion. You might say I am "culturally Catholic."
Amy Coney Barrett, the woman currently undergoing confirmation hearings for RBG's spot on the U.S. Supreme Court, recently referred to LBGTQ as a "sexual preference."
If she was really a woman of faith, she would accept that God has created some segment of the population as LGBTQ in all countries all over the world since the dawn of time. It is not a "preference." If there is a God, it is Her will. I'm gonna trust in God's wisdom on this one.
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I was Catholic, too, but gave it up after my Dad died. I just couldn't keep believing all the stories we were told. I especially couldn't understand why they had so many rules! and the whole thing against women being priests! Drove me nuts. Why do "they" get to decide who someone might love? Treat others the way you want to be treated, right? Peace to you!
ReplyDeleteYeah, I might have returned to the church in my dotage if they had only allowed women to be priests, allowed priests to marry, or made the church a one-issue political platform that denied women the right to choose. Pax vobiscum!
ReplyDeleteIt's as much a preference as mine. What an idiot. She scares me. She is that evil republican white robot. She has never been near a person of color and only with faith like hers. She doesn't understand or have empathy for anyone or she wouldn't be so mean and cruel in her findings. I pray to God if there is one that she does not make this cut. Even Scalia was open minded. This is an evil person with a trump agenda. She's being used and she's too stupid to know it. AND I too was raised in the catholic cult. I got away!
ReplyDeletePolitical dogma is used too often when certain people want to inflict their views on everyone. To strictly follow the Bible for instance would mean it is acceptable for a man to sleep with his daughters, for a person to kill another's spouse so they can be together, to kidnap and enslave... the list goes on and on. I think maybe we should just be good to each other.
ReplyDeleteI'm afraid there's not much to be done about her at the moment. We must take back all three branches of government and have a return sanity first, but then something should be done about her.
ReplyDeleteI think in the big clean up we will expand the court, and RBG will say "Well done".
ReplyDeleteAn excellent point. One which may be amplified if one considers how many homosexuals there are in the world - alive, in love, flourishing, and in a remarkable number of instances contributing to our general culture. If there were fewer homosexuals a well-trained Jesuit might (just about) argue that God experienced one or two glitches in the manufacturing process and forgot to toss these defective items into the trash-can. But to go on generating homosexuals - some of which have used their talent to glorify God - seems to elevate forgetfulness to the level I'm afflicted with.
ReplyDeleteA preference? Think too of the huge numbers of homosexuals who have been discriminated against, and killed, yet seemed unable to rid themselves of this dangerous "preference".
Think in particular of Alan Turing who helped ensure the good guys came out on top in WW2.
I rejected religion at a very early age as it made no sense to me and seemed full of contradictions. Religion was a big thing at my boarding school but they never changed my mind. If religion helps people to cope with troubled lives, fine, but I object strenuously to proselytising and attempts to convert the non-religious.
ReplyDeleteI don't think our souls have a gender so what difference does it make who we love?
ReplyDeleteI don't have a problem with what other people choose to believe but don't impose those beliefs on others.
I agree that sexual orientation is not a "preference".
ReplyDeleteThat said, being queer myself, if I had a choice - it would be my preference : )
Bravo to that. I can tell you, growing up as a gay teenager in the South, I would have "preferred" to be straight if I'd had a choice. But I didn't! (And now I'm glad.)
ReplyDeleteWhat are those crazy flowers?!
"Trichostema dichotomum, common name for forked bluecurls, is a flowering plant in the mint family. The plant is found in the Midwestern and Eastern United States, Eastern Canada, and the Bahamas." according to Wikipedia. I found them growing at a local nature preserve the other day. Aren't they hysterical? I just love them.
DeleteAs difficult as Society has made it for the LGBTQ Community I doubt a preference for being maligned, discriminated against and in danger of being harmed is a 'preference' anymore than it is a 'preference' to be born of a Racial group that has to deal with the Racism exacted against them for Generations. It's silly to assume anyone would 'choose' to be enduring so much that Society would not accept. I'm glad that at least some change has occurred so that various Groups are making progress in acceptance and getting more relief than in the Past, but we've still got a LONG ways to go. I think this Woman will not be able to separate her Religious Views from her Legal Rulings and that is dangerous that she is unlikely to separate the two.
ReplyDeleteFunny how so many religious people don't remotely practice anything resembling the faith outlined in their book.
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