Sunday, August 01, 2004
Vatican Denounces Radical Feminism
Yes, on occasion, the Roman Catholic church does something right and commendable. Here's the juicy excerpts from the news story:
The drive for equality makes "homosexuality and heterosexuality virtually equivalent, in a new model of polymorphous sexuality," the Vatican said...
The document, addressed to bishops worldwide, contended that new recent approaches to women's issues were marked by a tendency "to emphasize strongly conditions of subordination in order to give rise to antagonism: women, in order to be themselves, must make themselves the adversaries of men."
Such an attitude, the document said, "has its most immediate and lethal effects in the structure of the family."
The document also said that feminism wrongly tends to deny the differences between men and women "in order to avoid the dominance of one sex or the other."
The consequences of obscuring the differences between men and women, it said, included calling "into question the family, in its natural two-parent structure of mother and father," giving homosexual and heterosexual couples an equivalent status.
The document also took issue with a "certain type of feminist rhetoric" that makes "demands `for ourselves."'...
The document also expressed the Vatican's concern that blurring of differences between sexes could pose a challenge to church teaching, including the belief, in a reference to Christ, that "the Son of God assumed human nature in its male form."
"From the first moment of their creation, man and woman are different, and will remain so for eternity," the document said.
The Vatican is right. The problem of homosexuality is rooted in a misunderstanding of what it means to be male and what it means to be female. These are usually understood through their roles in the family and economy. However, if we say there are no roles particular to gender then when it comes to other issues there will be no difference between male and female.
Source (Fox News)
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The drive for equality makes "homosexuality and heterosexuality virtually equivalent, in a new model of polymorphous sexuality," the Vatican said...
The document, addressed to bishops worldwide, contended that new recent approaches to women's issues were marked by a tendency "to emphasize strongly conditions of subordination in order to give rise to antagonism: women, in order to be themselves, must make themselves the adversaries of men."
Such an attitude, the document said, "has its most immediate and lethal effects in the structure of the family."
The document also said that feminism wrongly tends to deny the differences between men and women "in order to avoid the dominance of one sex or the other."
The consequences of obscuring the differences between men and women, it said, included calling "into question the family, in its natural two-parent structure of mother and father," giving homosexual and heterosexual couples an equivalent status.
The document also took issue with a "certain type of feminist rhetoric" that makes "demands `for ourselves."'...
The document also expressed the Vatican's concern that blurring of differences between sexes could pose a challenge to church teaching, including the belief, in a reference to Christ, that "the Son of God assumed human nature in its male form."
"From the first moment of their creation, man and woman are different, and will remain so for eternity," the document said.
The Vatican is right. The problem of homosexuality is rooted in a misunderstanding of what it means to be male and what it means to be female. These are usually understood through their roles in the family and economy. However, if we say there are no roles particular to gender then when it comes to other issues there will be no difference between male and female.
Source (Fox News)



