Well, JWDT, if you actually knew something about our Church, as opposed to just parroting what your bigoted friends tell you, you'd know that the Inquisition hasn't gone anwhere. It just changed its name to the Sacred Congregation For The Doctrine Of The Faith. It's currently headed by the uber-Cardinal, Ratzinger, who is responsible for much of the bigotry spewing from the Curia these days. I suspect you've heard of Ratzinger -- he's popular with the fascist wing of the Church.

But he has no hold over me, or any other Catholic who chooses to condemn his bigotry. I'm a communicant, not clergy, and I've taken no vow of obedience. So Ratzinger can spew all the bigoted poison he wishes, and I'm free to thumb my nose at him and call him on his sin. He can't touch me so long as I adhere to the fundamental dogma, and anti-gay bigotry is not, and never has been, part of our fundamental dogma. I challenge you to quate me an ex cathedra pronouncement condemning homosexuality. And don't come back to me with that nonsense from Ratzinger and his cronies -- those are not ex cathedra pronouncements. Even our conservative Pope has not made such an ex cathedra statement on the subject of homosexuality. The issue is still wide open. And I'm confident that, when the ex cathedra pronouncement comes, it will be against anti-gay bigotry.


Ratzinger is exactly the sort of Pharisee condemned by Our Lord. The choice for Catholics is whetehr they follow this Pharisee, or whether they follow the example of Jesus, and recognize the divinity of every human being.

You're one of the 99 obedient sheep, abandoned by the shepherd to search for the one who strayed, who tested his free will and, in so doing, made God smile.

God doesn't want automatons -- people who just do what they're told. You have chosen to obey bigotry over love.

Fire and brimstone for you, chump.