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Friday, April 22, 2005

How iniquitous? Profoundly iniquitous

Posted by: Hammer / 2:39 PM

For some reason, perhaps because of Father Sarducci's accent, I will always think of Pope Benedict XVI as Pope Clavin:

Ratzinger, Ratzenberger. Not even that close, really.

Pope Clavin is already out there on the front lines, tromping his boots across the necks of homosexuals:

Pope Benedict XVI has responded firmly to the first challenge of his papacy by condemning a Spanish government bill allowing marriage between homosexuals.

The bill, passed by parliament's Socialist-dominated lower house, also allows gay couples to adopt.

A senior Vatican official described the bill - which is likely to become law within a few months - as iniquitous.

He said Roman Catholic officials should be prepared to lose their jobs rather than co-operate with the law.

The bill would make Spain the first European country to allow homosexual people to marry and adopt children.

Belgium and the Netherlands only allow same-sex marriages. It is also a dramatic step in the rapid secularisation of what was once one of the most devoutly Roman Catholic countries in Europe.

The head of the Vatican's Pontifical Council on the Family, Cardinal Alfonso Lopez Trujillo, denounced the legislation as profoundly iniquitous.

Now, I don't know how it works in Spain, but in the United States, you can't just force a priest, pastor, reverend, or judge to marry you. You have to ask. If the priest, pastor, reverend, or judge says "screw you", you've got to ask someone else. So it's not really a question of whether Spanish priests will be forced by the government to cooperate with the law. It's still a threat, but the threat is from Pope Clavin. He says that if a Spanish priest marries a gay couple, he's out of a job. Defrocked, as they say. It's a question of "if", not "rather": "He said Roman Catholic officials should be prepared to lose their jobs rather than if they co-operate with the law."

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