Via Andrew Sullivan, this statement from Dan Savage really gets the problem gays and lesbians who grew up Catholic have with Mother Church:
What's maddening about this pope's signature gay bashing is this: When the pope—the dead one, the next one, the one after that—says something stupid about homosexuality, straight folks take it to heart. The church's efforts have helped defeat gay rights bills, led to the omission of gays and lesbians from hate-crime statutes, and helped to pass anti-gay-marriage amendments. But when a pope says something stupid about heterosexuality, straight Americans go deaf. And this pope had plenty to say about heterosexual sex—no contraceptives, no premarital sex, no blowjobs, no jerkin' off, no divorce, no remarriage, no artificial insemination, no blowjobs, no three-ways, no swinging, no blowjobs, no anal. Did I mention no blowjobs? John Paul II had more "no's" for straight people than he did for gays. But when he tried to meddle in the private lives of straights, the same people who deferred to his delicate sensibilities where my rights were concerned suddenly blew the old asshole off. Gay blowjobs are expendable, it seems; straight ones are sacred.Were truer words ever spoken? Why is it that while papal decrees regarding divorce and contraception are routinely ignored by all but the most fervent of Catholics, his contempt for gay marriage inspires them to write laws? How would you like it if your nation tried to pass laws governing who you could love and, until recently, how you could love them in part because an old man wearing a cape told them they should?
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