Surprise surprise – the Vatican says French bishops are totally right to hate Teh Gayz.
The French Catholic Church is right to defend traditional family values, a top bishop told Vatican Radio yesterday, a day after rights groups criticised a prayer focused on families and children as homophobic.
The prayer, read out in French churches to mark the Assumption holiday, said children should “fully benefit from the love of a father and mother”, underscoring the Church’s opposition to a commitment by French President Francois Hollande to allow gay couples to marry and adopt children.
“French bishops are right to insist that children ‘grow up with a father and a mother’,” Bishop Vincenzo Paglia, head of the Vatican’s families committee, told Vatican Radio.
So that they will understand that one sex is inferior, and subordinate to the other. You can’t get that with same-sex parents. It’s seriously important.
Bishop Paglia blamed the pursuit of individual rights on a “cultural trend that idolises the rights of the individual”.
Because that interferes with the Vatican’s ability to tell everyone what to do.
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kantalope
August 18, 2012 at 5:58 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment
HaHa – no one will expect the Vaticanish Inquisition! — you know except anyone who knows anything about history.
'Tis Himself
August 18, 2012 at 6:06 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment
The authoritarian RCC has no use for the rights of the individual.
The temptation to godwin this post is strong, but I’ll resist.
crowepps
August 18, 2012 at 6:30 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment
“Majority of French children born to unwed mothers
By Brian Rohan
PARIS | Tue Jan 15, 2008 10:10am EST
PARIS (Reuters) – More children were born out of wedlock in France than to married parents for the first time in 2006, census data showed on Tuesday, in a sign the traditionally Catholic country has moved further from older social mores.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2008/01/15/us-france-population-idUSL1406071420080115
Seems to me the Bishop is missing the majority forest while he focuses on the minority tree.
piegasm
August 18, 2012 at 6:41 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment
So he blames the pursuit of individual rights for a trend wherein individual rights are pursued? Good thing we have insightful people like Bishop Paglia around to clue us in to these kinds of things.
Forbidden Snowflake
August 18, 2012 at 8:14 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment
It’s dangerous, you know. If gay marriage is legalized, absolutely nothing bad will come of it, and that might make France’s scarce Catholics wonder why they bother with this fuckery. The Church would rather avoid situations in which believers are forced to think.
Smhll
August 18, 2012 at 8:28 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment
The GOP uses “family values” as a code phrase that means patriarchy.
Azkyroth, Former Growing Toaster Oven
August 18, 2012 at 9:28 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment
…any relation?
Arnaud
August 19, 2012 at 2:50 am (UTC -7) Link to this comment
I loved this :
“In Italy, Bishop Paglia said strong family links and financial support from parents had saved young people affected by the economic crisis.”
Because, you know, unmarried or gay parents toss their children on the scrapheap as soon as possible!
Rempetis
August 19, 2012 at 4:01 am (UTC -7) Link to this comment
I doubt that they even believe that the bs that they’re saying are true. I bet they understand very well their role as stoppers of progressive change in society since that’s the main thing that they’ve been doing for quite a while now.
sailor1031
August 19, 2012 at 6:17 am (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Yo montrealprotest: thanks for that link. The “checkmate” video was really funny – best Poe I’ve seen for a while. Quel sens d’humeur que vous avez.
sailor1031
August 19, 2012 at 6:19 am (UTC -7) Link to this comment
@montrealprotest: oh noes! you took it seriously? Summer-the-little-stripey-cat says ‘quel dommage’……
Ophelia Benson
August 19, 2012 at 6:35 am (UTC -7) Link to this comment
sailor – that’s David Mabus/Dennis Markuze. He’s been drive-by commenting a lot lately, on most FT blogs.
sailor1031
August 19, 2012 at 7:38 am (UTC -7) Link to this comment
@OB. yeah I saw that. I won’t do it again – promise!
Ophelia Benson
August 19, 2012 at 8:34 am (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Oh, it’s not a problem, sailor – as I said, he does drive by comments, widely spaced (so far) – I strongly doubt that he ever sees replies, and it wouldn’t make any difference anyway. He’s like a human bot.
F
August 19, 2012 at 10:24 am (UTC -7) Link to this comment
“Insist”. Oh, yes, “insist”.
Kels
August 19, 2012 at 12:21 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Wait, didn’t France already have one of them Revolution thingies in order to do just that?
Giliell, not to be confused with The Borg
August 19, 2012 at 1:00 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Unless, of course, the father is a catholic priest, in which case the appropriate action is to abandon mother and child and act as if they never happened.
crowepps
Uhm, unwed mothers doesn’t mean single mothers. Marriage isn’t that popular in socialist commie Europe as it is elsewhere
sailor1031
August 19, 2012 at 1:47 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment
I believe that in France the system of support payments is such as to actively dissuade couples from marrying. But not necessarily from “those activities reserved to the holy state of matrimony” as some bishop of somewhere once phrased it.