Feminism a threat to families, church warns
The Vatican yesterday denounced feminism for trying to blur differences between men and women and threatening the institution of families based on a mother and a father.
The drive for equality, the Vatican said, makes “homosexuality and heterosexuality virtually equivalent, in a new model of polymorphous sexuality.” …
[S]ome observers said they feared how the document might be used. Professor Paul Lakeland, an expert on the Catholic Church at Fairfield University in Connecticut, said the paper could be used by church conservatives to condemn any form of advocacy for women. …
Addressed to bishops worldwide, the document contended that new recent approaches to women’s issues are marked by a tendency “to emphasize strongly conditions of subordination in order to give rise to antagonism: women, in order to be themselves, must make themselves the adversaries of men.”
Such an attitude, the document said, “has its most immediate and lethal effects in the structure of the family.”
The document also said that “in order to avoid the dominance of one sex or the other, their differences tend to be denied. … The obscuring of the difference or duality of the sexes has enormous consequences.”
These consequences, it said, included calling “into question the family, in its natural two-parent structure of mother and father,” giving homosexual and heterosexual couples an equivalent status.
Isn’t it interesting that Radical Islam, which is to say extremely conservative Islam, threatens the world at precisely the same time Catholicism grows more rigid and irrelevant and Radical (which is to say, conservative) Evangelical Christians hijack the US. Weird times. mjh
VATICAN CITY, August 1 (IslamOnline.net & News Agencies) – Seeking to preserve strong family ties and conceptions, agreed upon by all three major Divine religions, the Vatican launched Saturday, July 31, a diatribe against radical feminism, which calls for same-sex marriages. …
Traditional marriage and the concept of family is also essential in Islam. Eminent Muslim scholar, Sheikh Yusuf Al-Qaradawi, in his book “The Lawful and Prohibited in Islam”, wrote: “Marriage in Islam is a strong binding contract based on the intention of both partners to live together permanently in order to attain, as individuals, the benefit of repose, affection, and mercy mentioned in the Qur’an, as well as to attain the social goal of the reproduction and perpetuation of the human species. …
Gay marriage is totally prohibited in Islam as well as in the three divine religions.
“Emphatically, Islam forbids homosexuality and lesbianism and regard them as a violation of the commands of God. In both the Old and the New Testaments, all Prophets of God forbid such evil activities and punish severely those who practice them,” said Mohammad M. Abu Laylah, professor of Islamic Studies and Comparative Religions at Al-Azhar University.
So, Bush and bin Laden would agree. mjh
