White House responds after Pope Francis condemns 'gender theory,'
affirms Biden's support for trans community
Pope Francis denounced
attempts to deny sexual differences between men and women
White
House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre faced questions about Pope Francis' declaration condemning
gender theory on Monday, ultimately affirming President Biden's support for the
transgender community.
A
reporter pressed Jean-Pierre regarding the Pope's Monday document, which
formally reaffirms and expands on the Catholic Church's assertion
that attempts to alter an individual's immutable gender are ultimately
misguided attempts to play God. Jean-Pierre declined to say what Biden thought
of the document specifically, but added that he does support the transgender
community.
"We are pleased to see that the
document… furthered the Vatican's call to ensure that LGBTQ+ are protected from
violence and imprisonment around the world. However, the president will
continue to be an advocate for the rights, safety and dignity of the LGBTQ+ community,
including transgender people here in the U.S.," Jean-Pierre said in
response to a reporter who asked for a response to the document.
"What about the more specific comments about gender theory and transgender individuals?" a reporter pressed.
"I'm going to be really careful. The president's role to litigate internal Church policy, that's not his role, so I'm gonna be super careful there," Jean-Pierre said. "But I can speak to the president's stance, and he's always been very clear on the importance of protecting or having protections for the transgender community and the broader LGBTQ+ community, and that's been very clear since day one of his administration."
Francis'
Monday declaration, called "Dignitas Infinita," addressed over a dozen individual issues of the
modern day through the lens of scripture and church teaching, including abortion,
human trafficking, poverty, euthanasia, the death penalty and more.
Latin for "Infinite Dignity," the document was released after more than five years in development by the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith (DDF) and focuses on threats to human dignity in the modern world.
"Regarding gender theory, whose scientific coherence is the subject of considerable debate among experts, the Church recalls that human life in all its dimensions, both physical and spiritual, is a gift from God," the document states. "This gift is to be accepted with gratitude and placed at the service of the good. Desiring a personal self-determination, as gender theory prescribes, apart from this fundamental truth that human life is a gift, amounts to a concession to the age-old temptation to make oneself God, entering into competition with the true God of love revealed to us in the Gospel."
It's
not a new stance for the church — Pope Francis, forced to confront the rapid rise of
gender ideology in recent years, has previously called it one of the world's
"most dangerous ideological colonizations."
The document continues: "Another prominent aspect of gender theory is that it intends to deny the greatest possible difference that exists between living beings: sexual difference. This foundational difference is not only the greatest imaginable difference but is also the most beautiful and most powerful of them. In the male-female couple, this difference achieves the most marvelous of reciprocities. It thus becomes the source of that miracle that never ceases to surprise us: the arrival of new human beings in the world."
The document also reaffirms the
Church's teachings on abortion and elaborates on its long-standing ethical
criticisms of surrogate pregnancies, for which the pope recently called for a
worldwide ban.
Fox
News' Timothy H. J. Nerozzi contributed to this report.
What is the point of this ballsachingly tedious piffle, Gene? You don't bother to read it yourself, so why expect anyone else to? And, lest we forget:
ReplyDeleteAnd, lest we forget:
Had Ratzinger unfrocked Kiesle in 1985, the abuse of children at St Joseph's would not have continued for a further three years. That is a FACT, no matter how often you try to deny it.
Ratzinger's apology in full reads as follows [my footnotes}:
“I can only express to all the victims [1] of sexual abuse my profound shame, my deep sorrow and my heartfelt request for forgiveness. I have had great responsibilities [2] in the Catholic Church. All the greater is my pain for the abuses [3] and the errors [4] hat occurred in those different places [5] during the time of my mandate."[6]
1 ALL THE VICTIMS, Gene: victimS, plural: you can tell this by the S on the end of the word. All the victims of sexual abuse that occurred during Ratzingers time as Archbishop of Munich [1977- 1982] and later head of the Congregation of the Faith and Pope - that is, 1985 - 2013. The phrase "ALL THE VICTIMS therefore must include the victims of Stephen Kiesle between the years 1985-1988, when Ratzinger failed to unfrock Kiesle. [2] I HAVE HAD GREAT RESPONSIBILITES [see 1 above]: and one of those was to detect, root out and expel priests and others in the Catholic Church whose favourite hobby was buggering small boys and raping little girls. These GREAT RESPONSIBILITIES obviously include those children abused by Stephen Kiesle after Ratzinger failed to unfrock him in 1985. [3] THE ABUSES - these must include the abuses committed by Stephen Kiesle after Ratzinger failed to unfrock him [unless you can prove differently, Gene?].
[4] THE ERRORS - these must include Ratzinger's failure to unfrock Kiesle in 1985 and probably his failure to alert Fr Thomas Ryan that he was allowing a convicted paedophile rapist to minister to the young people in his church.
[5] THOSE DIFFERENT PLACES - except, of course at St Joseph's Church, Penole, CA, where Stephen Kiesle, still a priest, continued to abuse children during the years 1985-1988 - Ratzinger made it clear that his apology did not include this, didn't he, Gene, and you can prove that, can't you? What's that? oh, you can't? Dear me, and YOU call ME a lying tosser... [5] DURING MY MANDATE: that is, during the years 1985 - 2013.
It is clear to anyone whose mind has a greater ratiocinatory capacity than a pair of skid-marked underpants that Ratzinger was apologising for all the sexual abuse committed on his watch 1985-2013 by priests whom he failed either properly to oversee, accurately to diagnose and condignly to punish, as well as arranging for their being unable to access children and young people ever again.
"I can only express to ALL the victims of sexual abuse my profound shame, my deep sorrow and my heartfelt request for forgiveness." It's that word ALL that gives it away, Gene: I'm sorry if it's confusing. Stuff your pissy little opinions up your arse. I will not apologise for telling the truth, and I will go on telling it until you acknowledge that it is the truth. In the meantime, I continue to wait for your answer to this:
"Detters can we leave A.N. WILSON and ARIANNA HUFFINGTON behind?"
Not until you have dealt honestly with this example of your lying bastardy:
'Gene writes beautifully - something not always the case with authors of trail-blazing literary works.' [A.N. WILSON]
"The genius of James Joyce is alive and well and living amongst us. His name is Gene Vincent." [A.N. WILSON]
'I was enthralled. A new star has shot into the literary firmament. [ARIANNA HUFFINGTON]
When you are going to admit that you have made these reviews and their authors up? Make no mistake: I am going to keep on asking until you tell the truth, or I lose patience, inform Mr Wilson and Ms Huffington and let nature take its course.
Piffle??? These issues go the the heart of what it means to be human. Human dignity.
ReplyDeleteHow would you know. You haven't even read it, you pompous prick.
DeleteYes, I have read it. It is excellent.
DeleteNow I wonder why the C of E never come up with a document like that? Oops! Sorry I forgot. The C of E is f**ked.