LGBTQIA++++ Catholicism
Golly gee, suddenly the Catholic church in Ireland is more progressive than those dreary old feminist women.
Well maybe not more progressive exactly, but more something. Adventurous? Excitable? Generous with other people’s rights?
It’s so fascinating, because the church has always treated women like rebellious stupid garbage, but women who pretend to be men are a whole other story.
You’d think someone had put a gun to her head to force her into long term binding.
I blame Father Trendy. For those not in the know before he became Father Ted, Dermot Morgan was Father Trendy the desperate-to-be-down-with-the-kids Catholic priest. It seems his type are still with us and ridiculous as ever.
Here he is spouting his trademark nonsense:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrC6xrg24sM
About a decade ago, I was a briefly member of TENI. This is just one example of the weird stuff going on in the organisation. Scandal after scandal, infighting between the narcissistic egos, financial fraud – I have no idea why it’s still going.
Mind you, I was a member of the Catholic church for several decades, and they’re even worse.
Eek. My sympathies.
Well, it shouldn’t be too shocking that the RC is toying going along with this nonsense–after all, Iran already is kinder to transwomen than to gay men, so other theocratic institutions might find it easier to go along. Wonder if the Pope would sign off on a trans man priest, or on a man-transwoman marriage.
I think the belief in gendered souls fits very well into religious and especially catholic doctrine:
– The soul is more important than the physical body.
– The church is all for strict gender roles. Since assigning these roles purely on biological terms does not work anymore (because pesky women are not content to stay home and raise children), re-defining sex based on these roles is exactly what the church needs.
– And if you already believe in one rather absurd claim (gender-souls), it is much easier to make you believe in others as well. It is like a wedge in rationality’s door.