Against the Truth: Pope Benedict XVI, the Natural Order, and “Human Auto-Emancip

[Hazumu]

Against the Truth: Pope Benedict XVI, the Natural Order, and "Human Auto-Emancipation"
December 24th, 2008
By MICHAEL STICKINGS, Assistant Editor

Now, I'm with the "gay groups" on this, more or less, whatever my concerns about humanity's efforts to conquer, by overcoming, nature. We are all little Nietzscheans now, perhaps, but that's not necessarily a good thing. What I recognize, unlike the pope, is that nature is flexible and that it is part of our nature, as rational creatures, to seek to shape it according to our desires. And the fact is, gender and sexuality are rather complex. There aren't just men and women and we aren't all straight. (It is easier to determine what is male and female, given our chromosomal natures, than what is straight and not straight. Is anyone absolutely straight or gay?)

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The Pope's Christmas Condemnation Of Transsexuals (+)
by: Autumn Sandeen
Thu Dec 25, 2008 at 12:00:00 PM EST

But, with that thought of an infallible Pope in mind and my Mom's recent conversion to Catholicism, perhaps I let things news like this get to me a bit too much: The Pope's Christmas message included the message that the world needs to be protected against gays and transsexuals.

[tekla]

infallible Pope  Widely misunderstood.  Only in a very specific way, and this was not one of those.