Of gay Bishops...

I have read with facsination all the press, good and bad, about gays in religious orders, and just recently the Catholic church removed a bishop or whatever for giving an interview where he admitted to being gay and all that.

My first reaction to this type of issue is very simple, it is puerile to say the least for a person to join an order and then insist that the order must change their rules to suit him. He then seeks a reinterpretation of their historical processes in order to accommodate his position!
Hey! Gimme a break! You cannot tamper with a manuscript you did not write in order to make the interpretation suit you.

The most honorable thing to do would be to remove yourself from that group and form your own. Otherwise you would be guilty of wanting to eat your cake and have it at the same time. But I guess these days there are only a few honest and honorable men on hand.

You may accuse Christianity of being archaic, myopic, insular, use any english word you want, but please do not try to change it into what you want. That is the height of selfishness and against the spirit of democracy and rights entrenched therein. Anyway, talking of democracy, it is taking a serious bashing from people who imagine the rights of the few must be imposed on the rights of the many.

This brings me to the issue of gay marriage. Why do you want to force an institution that does not acede to your actions to validate it? Is it not to bring that institution down to your level and thus rubbish it? In most societies, common law relationships are recognised and the two individuals can have a pre-nuptial or post-nuptial agreement about any aspect of their relationship by asking a lawyer to draft such a document and filing it with the appropriate authorities, so what do they really want? What is the real agenda?

The Bible talks about God and our relationship with Him. I cannot imagine why someone would claim to believe in God and not believe what He says. Or on the other hand, if you don't believe in God why do you want an institution that derives its existence from Him to validate your lifestyle? I would imagine those people are insincere to say the least.

Another issue is that of gays wanting to adopt children! How can a relationship that cannot naturally produce children want to bring them up! This is unthinkable for me. Children are produced when a man and a woman come together. That unit provides a natural environment for nurturing the young, and both the man and woman have their respective parts to play. Before now, adoptions were done by couples who either could not have any children, or want more children and could not have or by those who have children but want to provide a nurturing environment for those children who do not have parents to look after them.

I believe that people who claim to be gay should really look at themselves well. Their relationship is based on one party being the "female", while the other is the "male". Have they not come back to the natural order of things as nature created it? I think the appropriate arms of medical and social sciences should take a look at this and bring some insight into the matters involved to the attention of the "gay" community.

Enjoy your day!