Anthony Sablan Apuron, archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Agaña, Guam issued the following statement expressing the Church’s opposition to Bill 185. Bill 185 would legalize domestic partnerships for gay men and lesbians in the U.S. territory of Guam.
I beg of you to read the statement in its entirety. Perhaps even re-read it to ensure that none of its subtleties escape you.
"Islamic fundamentalists clearly understand the damage that homosexual behavior inflicts on a culture. That is why they repress such behavior by death. Their culture is anything but one of self-absorption. It may be brutal at times, but any culture that is able to produce wave after wave of suicide bombers (women as well as men) is a culture that at least knows how to value self-sacrifice. Terrorism as a way to oppose the degeneration of the culture is to be rejected completely since such violence is itself another form of degeneracy. One, however, does not have to agree with the gruesome ways that the fundamentalists use to curb the forces that undermine their culture to admit that the Islamic fundamentalists charge that Western Civilization in general and the U.S.A. in particular is the "Great Satan" is not without an element of truth. It makes no sense for the U.S. Government to send our boys to fight Al Qaida and the Taliban in Afghanistan, while at the same time it embraces the social policies embodied in Bill 185 (as President Obama has done). Such policies only furnish further arguments for the fundamentalists in their efforts to gain more recruits for the war against the ‘Great Satan.'"
The Vatican has yet to distance itself from this statement.
These are the same people who would deny Patrick Kennedy communion because he supports a woman’s right to choose. This is consistent with my perception that those who declare themselves in favor of the “right to life” only find life sacred from conception to birth. After that it’s “Katie bar the door.”
Having been raised Catholic, attended Catholic schools kindergarten through twelfth grade, and never sourly and smugly declared myself to be a “reformed” or
“recovering” Catholic, it saddens me deeply to see the worst of my fears about the Church and the Church’s view of me confirmed.
The pederasts, it seems, are hardly the worst of the lot. For those cluck-clucking at my hyperbole, let me reiterate Archbishop Apuron’s greatest hit, while asking how you would respond if this was being said of you:
“Islamic fundamentalists clearly understand the damage that homosexual behavior inflicts on a culture. That is why they repress such behavior by death. …”
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Yes, I remember ALL of my dieing AIDS patients being totally self absorbed-MY ASS_ Have any of ya'll talked to a priest or chaplain lately? talk about full of themselves and self absorbed? I am a female heterosexual and I am totally Self absorbed..these Islamic fundamentalist are not only self absorbed...they are Dangerous!!! Send that Bishop back to the chess board where he need to be..silent and waiting for someone to move him to another space!
ReplyDeleteAs I have said several times lately, not all of the islamic fundamentalist beliefs are really that bad. I am particularly a fan of their position on the role and responsibilities of women in society. That is why I agree with our commanded-and-chief that we should negotiate and try to reason with them instead of killing them all and letting God sort them out. As an ex-altar boy (unmolested, but later suspected some others were), the Catholic church will get what is coming to it eventually. I have to believe that in order to not become an atheist. - The more I learn, the more Libertarian I become.
ReplyDeleteThank you for calling attention to this issue, curmudgeon. I informed the HRC and other organizations that claim to exist for the defense of LGBT people and their rights and even provided them with my phone number and email if they wanted to learn more. None of them responded.
ReplyDeleteWhile Guam proudly boasts itself as "Where America's Day Begins" and consistently sends more men and women (per capita) to fight and die on foreign battlefields in order to protect our way of life, including the current wars against the Islamic fundamentalists that this disgusting pig of a priest choses to side with, the island is too often "out of sight, out of mind" for the rest of America.
It's one reason why a crackpot prelate like this Apuron guy make such outrageous proclamations. He believes nobody outside the island will see or hear or care about it. He needs to know that others are watching, listening and willing to call him on it.
i totally support LGBT PEOPLE. we shouldnt evn stereotype them, WE ARE ALL PEOPLE. the church shouldnt be envolved in the government. evryone should have the same rights as evryone else.
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