Occasionally (okay, yesterday!), I’ll get a bit huffy about Bible-thumping
wingnuts and someone will say I’m being unfair, that I should respect religion.
But I do. I have great respect for religion the way I have great respect for a
baseball bat with a nail in it. Believe me, I respect that
baseball bat!
But it’s the wide berth I try to give the
Magisterium that’s never respected! They’re forever beating us or annulling
our marriages or, in today’s latest twist, calling us a “threat” akin to the
destruction of the rainforests. The Pope says that anything other than
heterosexual marriage is “a destruction of God’s work.” It’s as though he
pictures the world as a beautiful art museum…and then the gays arrive:
Mind you, when I think of things like the Amsterdam
drag nativity scene (so tacky!) or Jonny
McGovern performing Beyoncé’s “Tranny Ladies,” I can’t help but
wonder if the Pope has a point. Gay men can be destructive and often
useless and screechy – why, “Sex and the City” taught us that!
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