Why is the Pope undermining the equality laws?
Until about 40 years ago, the males of the species were generally divided into two categories: those who could control their sexual proclivities and those who couldn’t. It was generally accepted that we were all capable of indulging in buggery, paedophilia and sheep bothering, but some of us confined our sexual activities to women. Those who didn’t were treated as perverts, were the objects of ridicule and could face prosecution. Then all of a sudden, fashion changed. Self-control became unfashionable and buggery became the norm. Despite the fact that this has given rise to a surge in teenage pregnancies, Aids and major epidemics of Syphilis, Gonorrhoea and Chlamydia, any kind of sexual self-discipline is seen as an illness. You cannot discriminate against someone because of their preference for homosexuality but if their preference in buggering children you can go round to their caravan and torture them to death. The Catholic Church is not swayed by temporary changes in fashion. It is
It seems everyone’s focusing on the anti-gay side of his statement, and almost nobody is focusing on the anti-intersex and anti-transsexual focus of his whole statement. The pope is arguing that there is an essential different between male and female, and no intermediates, but can’t say which one it is. Because there are people who have XX chromosomes and are completely male, and there are people who have XY chromosomes and are completely female. And there are people with one X chromosome and no Y chromosome, people with three or more sex chromosomes, etc. There are people who are genetically male, but who’s bodies simply do not respond to testosterone and develop like any other woman’s. There are people who are exposed to more estrogen or more testosterone at critical times in the womb, and may end up with ambiguous genitalia and/or transsexualism. This isn’t some new discovery. People haven’t always known why people are born intersex, but people have known that people are born inters
