As you’re probably aware, The Vatican has now published its document on gay men who want to be priests, and as you would imagine, it’s not a barrel of fun. I wasn’t going to comment on it, but then a document was published yesterday that I did want to comment on. That document was a leader in The Guardian that was headlined "Distinctly Without Prejudice" and which was, to my eyes, a surprisingly uncritical take on the Vatican’s document.
It opens with a sentence that raised my eyebrows: "The most important thing about the Vatican’s new document on gay priests is that it is not bigoted" and it went on from there, keeping my eyebrows firmly entwined with my receding hairline. I see, from the Guardian’s letters page today, that I’m not the only one to have had a similar reaction. I think the best summary is given by a Dr. Dan Healy:
Your support for the Vatican’s new policy on gay priests is incomprehensible. Which part of: gays are intrinsically immoral, they are objectively disordered, their behaviour contrary to natural law, their acts are grave sins (your own summary of Catholic doctrine) is without prejudice? It is bullying fundamentalism, based on a misogynist conception of priesthood and faith.
Hear, hear!
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