In the words of Jacques Herbert in 1790, ‘Fuck the Pope‘.
Mr. Ratzinger has saved the opponents of Catholicism from the bother of producing a ‘reductio ad absurdum’. Apparently confused by the similarity between ‘conservation’ and ‘conservatism’, he has ranked gender-bending alongside environmental degradation as a threat to creation.That means not just homosexuality, bisexuality, and transexuality, but all the efforts of feminists to smash gender roles.
Now to be fair, this is a slightly uncharitable reading, but I don’t think it’s hugely inaccurate. To quote:
“[The church] must defend not only the earth, water and air as gifts of creation that belong to all, it must also defend the human person against its own destruction…That which is often expressed and understood by the term ‘gender’ in the end amounts to the self-emancipation of the human person from creation and from the Creator…disregard of [the language of creation] would mean self-destruction of the human person.”
