Vatican and Gays
Regarding the article titled “Vatican Statement Supports Discrimination Against Gays” (July 17): By changing two words in the Vatican’s statement, the fuller scope of the its policy becomes clear. According to these Men of God, “There are areas in which it is not unjust discrimination to take sexual orientation into account.” Change the words sexual orientation to gender or race or national origin or physical limitation or marital status, and what do you have? An organization that cloaks itself in righteousness while promoting a systematic denial of rights.
While the Catholic Church rails against abortion rights, birth control, safe sex and family planning, and chooses instead to live in a state of perpetual denial, can anyone really take the Vatican’s message to heart? Is it any wonder then that the Catholic Church is losing millions of members who no longer believe their church addresses life in the real world? To borrow a phrase from Shakespeare, the Catholic Church is “filled with sound and fury signifying nothing.”
JEFFREY G. GENTILE, Redondo Beach
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