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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe Pope’s advice to trans people? ‘Accept the body God gave you’
Sorry, Pope lovers.
http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2015/06/19/the-popes-advice-to-trans-people-accept-the-body-god-gave-you/
He wrote: The acceptance of our bodies as Gods gift is vital for welcoming and accepting the entire world as a gift from the Father and our common home, the Pope wrote.
The Pope also attacked gender theory, suggesting that trans people are actually just struggling with same-sex attraction.
For example, I ask myself, if the so-called gender theory is not, at the same time, an expression of frustration and resignation, which seeks to cancel out sexual difference because it no longer knows how to confront it the removal of difference in fact creates a problem, not a solution.
"Accept the body that came as 'God's gift'"? Does that mean he's against piercings? Tattoos? Plastic surgery?
Oh well, he's still an upgrade from Ratz. Not that that's the least bit difficult.
HERVEPA
(6,107 posts)KamaAina
(78,249 posts)bullwinkle428
(20,629 posts)Bigmack
(8,020 posts)... is surprising for a guy who accepts science generally.
About half a percent of the population is born with ambiguous genitals. Coin toss on which gender they are. Doctors used to assign a gender at birth, based on their evaluation of the structures the kid was born with.
That's roughly 1.6 million Americans.
And that only counts the people with ambiguous genitals...not the people whose brain/hormone gender is ambiguous.
Skittles
(153,170 posts)could you really expect anything else?
gollygee
(22,336 posts)and reject everything he says about LGBT rights, abortion, and who knows what else.
NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)and just look at the big picture. Wait. That is the big picture. Never mind.
ileus
(15,396 posts)damnedifIknow
(3,183 posts)He needs to work on that but I give him credit for his stance on climate change.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)Zorra
(27,670 posts)Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)It's a savage hobby they pursue.
eShirl
(18,495 posts)He doesn't know a transgender person may be attracted to people of either sex or both sexes, just like non-transgender people.
Politicalboi
(15,189 posts)The world will end tomorrow and his followers should commit suicide to avoid the terror of god's wrath. We'll see who the "true" believers are, and we would get rid of this clown and their circus.
Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,501 posts)Jamastiene
(38,187 posts)and saying one thing one week and another thing the next week, depending on which group he is talking to at the time. That is incredibly two faced. He is leading people of the left on who want to believe he is great and sending dog whistles to extremists on the right, simultaneously. I'm surprised I'm the only one that has his number on exactly what he is doing. He talks out of both sides of his mouth. I never trust anyone who does that. I can't believe more people have not noticed him doing it. He does it all the time.
AZ Progressive
(3,411 posts)Come behind someone so lousy (like Bush) so it would make you look really good, even if you really aren't.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)Rex
(65,616 posts)It is pretty obvious by now that god is a Mother.