They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
The Conservative Blogosphere is wearily amused at liberal-come-lately Andrew Sullivan's latest episode of shock, outrage and disgust (and don't forget betrayal, dismay and bewilderment! -- ed.), this time regarding the selection of Cardinal Ratzinger as the new Pope.
". . . those of us who are struggling against what our Church is becoming, and the repressive priorities it is embracing, can only contemplate a form of despair."
Earth to Andy -- it's the Catholic-frickin'-Church, you big ninny. What? You were expecting an invitation to the voting table? "Let's ask gay Catholics who they'd like to be Pope, shall we?" Hello! Let me fill you in on the memo you seem to have missed -- there aren't supposed to be any gay Catholics!
Cruising by Andy's website of late has become akin to slowing down the car and craning for a better look at the bloody wreck by the side of the road -- it's messy, it's ugly and thank God it's not me.
From his petulant, foot-stomping dislike of the current President (and Karl Rove), his outright campaigning for John Kerry (who represents the worst sort of excesses of the Democratic Party), his Eeyore-ic mutterings regarding the necessary political and cultural revamp of the Middle East (starting with Iraq), and now his flailing, spittle-flecked tantrums over the Catholic Church's selection of a Pope who embodies the moral, social and political philosophies of, well, the Catholic Church, I think we can all safely assume that little Andy's "I'm a Gay Conservative . . . really!" charade is long past over.
Fer real.
I mean, c'mon, when 23% of your readership hail from the dark nether-regions of Barbara Boxer Land and Hillary Clinton Empire, it becomes more than a little disingenuous to claim that your latest song-and-dance routines aren't created implicity for their wallets toe-tapping pleasure.
CASE IN POINT: "THE POLITICAL ANALOGY: I was trying to explain last night to a non-Catholic just how dumb-struck many reformist Catholics are by the elevation of Ratzinger. And then I found a way to explain. This is the religious equivalent of having had four terms of George W. Bush only to find that his successor as president is Karl Rove. Get it now?"
Little Mr. Sullivan is just another sad example of the urbanized gay man whose identity politics trump everything else to the point where he can't even begin to fathom a world that exists utterly free from and independent of the confines of his own myopic sexual priorities.
On a Related Note:
Top Ten Changes the New Pope Will Enact to Make Christianity More Acceptable to Liberals.
Comments
You are so right about the Catholic Church and Mr. Sullivan's personal myopia. Anyone who expects the Church to suddenly reform it's position on gays to punctuate the transition of the last pope into the afterlife and the ascention of a new one to his post is clearly deluded. Nice blog you got here.
Posted by: Tyler West | April 21, 2005 1:39 PM
Quite the thing. This appallingly conservative pope takes such hardline views as believing the Catholic faith is true, and sex is special. Get with the new century, eh.
The man who spent a quarter century as John Paul's advisor is a suprise choice or a "transitional papacy" - take your pick!
Posted by: Robbie | April 21, 2005 7:52 PM
That's like saying "who expects the U.S. military to accept gays?" No one, you big ninny! But that doesn't mean that we can't pressure them to change. The Catholic Church takes the long view, and so must those who oppose some its doctrines.
Posted by: kurt | April 22, 2005 6:17 AM
Actually, there can be gay Catholics. The Catholic Church has repeatedly promoted its unique view that being gay and having gay desires is okay, it becomes a sin when one acts on it.
Thus Catholic Gays are encouraged to live a life of celibacy. The promotion of the celibate gay is why many gay Catholics become priests, rather than face the challenges of coming out.
Posted by: Ben | April 25, 2005 5:24 AM
Yes Ben, and then the gay priest spends decades bottling up his sexual frustration and being placed in control of dozens of beautiful young adolescant boys. Now i'm not saying that all gay priests are pedophiles or that all pedophile priests are gay - just that its hard to miss the connection between enforced celibacy and the sex abuse scandal. The church responded by banning all gays from the priesthood (good luck) and continuing its assault on gay monogamy. So now what are good Catholic gay men supposed to do? We arent allowed to wank either you know. Or have lustful thoughts.
Posted by: Jonathan | April 27, 2005 8:12 PM