Then the righteous will answer him and say, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you drink? When did we see you a stranger and welcome you, or naked and clothe you? When did we see you ill or in prison, and visit you?’That looks pretty clear to me. Our issue with sexuality is simple and has only one component that is theological.
And the king will say to them in reply, ‘Amen, I say to you, whatever you did for one of these least brothers of mine, you did for me.’
- Theology: You are unique among the animals in that you were made in the image of God and have a soul.
- Biology: All humans come from the union of one man and one woman.
Wife kitteh informs me that there was a group of Catholic lay people here in San Diego that made some nasty public pronouncements about gays. I hadn't heard of it even though my interaction with the Church is continuous, deep and spread widely across our diocese. Apparently it got plenty of play in the left wing media, which is to say, almost all of it. Since I don't watch the news or read the newspaper, I was out of the loop. All I do is live in the real world.
After a lovely conversation with an unreligious person the night before where the Key Question About Gays came up, wife kitteh and I were talking about it last night. She said she understood why we got that question and brought up the jerk-Catholics mentioned above. I asked, "Why are they considered representative? How about the LGBT activists who are egging on my friend to cut off her breasts and take testosterone, which is poisonous to women? Why aren't they representative of gays?"
There isn't a logical answer, of course, it's all bigotry. When given muddled data, if you want to make a point, you sift through it and handpick the stuff that validates your hypothesis and quietly discard the rest. That's how bigotry works.
Defending George Washington: George Washington owned slaves! Well, so what? What was everyone else doing in 1776? At that point in time, Africans in Africa took gold, silver and bronze in the Slavery Olympics. Why do we single out George for attack? In that case, we're handpicking the person and quietly discarding millions of others. We hate George and the boys and we want to make them look bad.
Defending Joe Biden: The same thing goes for Slow Joe's recent statement about poor kids being just as gifted as white kids. For the love of God, you political hacks, give it a rest. A normal person knows exactly what Joe was trying to say and it was driven by kindness. Joe may be a dunce, but he's not a closet klansman. You're harping on that quote because you're trying to get us to believe something that's untrue, not because it's representative.
Anyway, the people who push the Catholics-hate-gays narrative aren't telling you anything about Catholics, they're only telling you things about themselves. They handpicked a particular data subset for a reason.
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| In completely unrelated news, my tobacco seeds have begun to sprout! |
Wow, tobacco seedlings are tiny. No wonder the pros sprout them indoors and then transplant them later.
ReplyDelete"A normal person knows exactly what Joe was trying to say and it was driven by kindness."
ReplyDeleteNope. Not having it.
Sleepy China Joe *is* a racist. He's not the join-the-Klan sort, and I doubt he'd intentionally slight an individual (*) colored person (**), but (as with Democrats in general) he *does* think that only white people are *real* people.
(*) though, as with Democrats in general, he's all on-board with policies that demonstrably harm "the black community" (***) ... because those policies rebound to the political benefit of important Democrat politicians, such as himself
(**) intentional violation of the speech-code
(***) from the time I first heard the trope, I have *always* hated the leftist habit of assigning people into (smaller and smaller) groups (which they them pit against one another), and calling these groups they have summoned into existence "communities".
What common interest does a black American living in Mansfield OH have with a black American living in San Diego CA which over-rides the common interest the one has with me and the other with you?
"You're harping on that quote because you're trying to get us to believe something that's untrue, not because it's representative."
ReplyDeleteAgain, no.
They are harping on that most recent "gaffe" because its time to force the Democrats and other leftists to live by the same rules they seek to impose on everyone else.
A few years ago, I worked with a ditzy broad who described herself as "a proud liberal". She was so "liberal" that even though any time our chatter across the partition even touched on politics it was because *she* had broached the matter, she's *still* get angry at my mild attempts to steer her back toward the center. She was so "liberal" that she *actually* said, "I think communism (*) would be a good thing, it just hasn't been tried yet."
ReplyDeleteOne time, while telling me about some of the travelling she'd done, she said, "... I didn't care for Miami ... It's full of dirty Cubans."
She actually said that, right out loud.
Another time, explaining why she prefers to shop at the more expensive grocery stores, she said of a particular cut-rate chain of grocery stores (**) (***), "I don't like Sav-a-Lot, the people who shop there are [some words I don't precisely recall, but which mean, 'they're icky and they have cooties']"
I thought, but didn't say, "The main difference I see between the clientele of Sav-a-Lot and you is that they are tattooed and fat, whereas you are tattooed and scrawny. Also, a lot of them are black."
(*) and she said 'communism', not 'socialism'
(**) which I jokingly refer to as "Odd Lots Foods"
(***) and which is where I preferentially shop for groceries
Tim - you're right. They are really tiny.
ReplyDeleteIlion - I don't want to go through life assuming the worst about people. I'd agree that Joe is racist in the way that progs are racist - blacks are victims and have no moral agency of their own. I still wouldn't go farther than that. He's not going to suggest we return to Jim Crow laws.
*sigh* It's almost like people don't actually read what other people have written.
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