POPE DECLARES WAR
The rhetoric being used demonizes transgender people, while the repeated use of “colonizing” language is a dog whistle to politicians in nations where past colonialism is still a source of anger and resentment. The goal of the Catholic Church is to goad these countries into legislating their transgender populations out of existence, while not directly telling them to do so. Thus, in the aftermath of the human rights disaster, they will have some degree of culpable deniability because they never actually told them to do it, or suggested specific laws.
Now, who here still thinks Francis is a wonderful, progressive pope?
As a famous 18th century consitutional theorist noted, "Parliament can do everything but make a woman a man and a man a woman." (Jean-Louis de Lolme). Are we not headed in the wrong direction?
ReplyDeleteit's a question of personal choice, and it's happened since time immemorial. We were all born in His image, male and female alike. The medical profession have certainly profited from it
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