ROD DREHER VERSUS THE POPE

Gay people are supposed to shut up, utter no dissent, keep their heads down or be regarded as bad Catholics. Rod Dreher can lambaste the Pope John Paul II on his anti-Israel rhetoric, quote a Vatican source describing the Orthodox Patriarch as giving a “false, lying, asinine statement,” and no-one bats an eye-lid. More double-standards from the Catholic theocons. Many of them disagree with the Pope on such major issues as the death penalty, the morality of capitalism, and the right of Israel to self-defense, but if someone else dares to dissent on sexual matters, they’re written out of the church. I’m not saying that Rod isn’t entitled to his heterodox views. I share some, if not all, of them. I just wish he would allow others to be entitled to theirs’.