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Jul. 1st, 2014 09:41 am- This should not be happening!
LGB people who received therapy from a medical professional were no less likely to attempt suicide than those who did not seek help, but assistance from faith-based counselors were associated with a higher suicide risk.
- Unpopular, but I would have been interested to see this (now cancelled) talk on defending honour killings. Especially because I suspect the presented argument would have been, "this is how some people justify such an abhorrent thing." This blog post keeps popping into my head, and it's got me thinking of how cultures differ, but also how remarkably similar they are. If anthropology tells us anything, it's that we aren't all that different from each other across the world.
Then again, I do like the read other people's arguments and perspectives, because I like to see where other people are coming from, even if I think they're wrong, wrong, wrong.
- And on that note, I skimmed the instrumentum laboris out of pure curiosity. It says:
110. On unions of persons of the same sex, the responses of the bishops' conferences refer to Church teaching. "... according to the teaching of the Church, men and women with homosexual tendencies 'must be accepted with respect, compassion and sensitivity.'"
I find that disturbing.
It reads like: "I'm only treating you with respect because my church says I should. Not because other people are human beings and just the same as us, no, but because I imagine someone would get angry at me if I treated you how I really felt."
ETA: Oh, this is rich:
112. The responses describe a third context, one where States have introduced legislation recognizing civil unions or so-called “marriages” between homosexual persons. In some countries, the situation reflects a real redefining of marriage, where the couple is viewed only in legal terms, with such references as “equal rights” and “non-discrimination” without any thought to a constructive dialogue in the matter based on the deeper anthropological issues involved and the centrality of the integral well-being of the human person, especially the integral well-being of the children in these unions.
Excuse me, but... without any thought to... the deeper anthropological issues? No consideration of anthropological issues??! Let me tell you about anthropological issues, you pompous dicks! Anthropological issues that have nothing to do with the culture of the Catholic church, and out of which the church should butt the hell out! Yes, really! Anthropology teaches us to leave other cultures alone, and that includes secular culture! Do not talk to me about anthropology without knowing anything about it!
Anthropological issues include recognising that we are all equally human (at least since Franz Boas in the late 1800s and early 1900s). Including queer people like me! Moreover, there is actually an anthropological argument to be made for the fact that gay people are nature's babysitters (since children do better with more adults around, some adults not having their own children but helping raise children that already exist raises the ratio of adults to children in a given community). Not to mention the socio-cultural benefits gained from people who can form those interpersonal connections within the same sex and the value those connections contribute to a wider community. It might shock you to learn that Anthropology actually supports the value of queer people and their inclusion in family life. I repeat, do not talk to me about anthropology without knowing anything about it!
Ignorant, pompous asses in the church.
ETA2: There are many more pieces of head-desking hilarity further on in the instrumentum laboris, but I'm going to quit quoting them because this entry would never end. Oh man, this will be good reading...
LGB people who received therapy from a medical professional were no less likely to attempt suicide than those who did not seek help, but assistance from faith-based counselors were associated with a higher suicide risk.
- Unpopular, but I would have been interested to see this (now cancelled) talk on defending honour killings. Especially because I suspect the presented argument would have been, "this is how some people justify such an abhorrent thing." This blog post keeps popping into my head, and it's got me thinking of how cultures differ, but also how remarkably similar they are. If anthropology tells us anything, it's that we aren't all that different from each other across the world.
Then again, I do like the read other people's arguments and perspectives, because I like to see where other people are coming from, even if I think they're wrong, wrong, wrong.
- And on that note, I skimmed the instrumentum laboris out of pure curiosity. It says:
110. On unions of persons of the same sex, the responses of the bishops' conferences refer to Church teaching. "... according to the teaching of the Church, men and women with homosexual tendencies 'must be accepted with respect, compassion and sensitivity.'"
I find that disturbing.
It reads like: "I'm only treating you with respect because my church says I should. Not because other people are human beings and just the same as us, no, but because I imagine someone would get angry at me if I treated you how I really felt."
ETA: Oh, this is rich:
112. The responses describe a third context, one where States have introduced legislation recognizing civil unions or so-called “marriages” between homosexual persons. In some countries, the situation reflects a real redefining of marriage, where the couple is viewed only in legal terms, with such references as “equal rights” and “non-discrimination” without any thought to a constructive dialogue in the matter based on the deeper anthropological issues involved and the centrality of the integral well-being of the human person, especially the integral well-being of the children in these unions.
Excuse me, but... without any thought to... the deeper anthropological issues? No consideration of anthropological issues??! Let me tell you about anthropological issues, you pompous dicks! Anthropological issues that have nothing to do with the culture of the Catholic church, and out of which the church should butt the hell out! Yes, really! Anthropology teaches us to leave other cultures alone, and that includes secular culture! Do not talk to me about anthropology without knowing anything about it!
Anthropological issues include recognising that we are all equally human (at least since Franz Boas in the late 1800s and early 1900s). Including queer people like me! Moreover, there is actually an anthropological argument to be made for the fact that gay people are nature's babysitters (since children do better with more adults around, some adults not having their own children but helping raise children that already exist raises the ratio of adults to children in a given community). Not to mention the socio-cultural benefits gained from people who can form those interpersonal connections within the same sex and the value those connections contribute to a wider community. It might shock you to learn that Anthropology actually supports the value of queer people and their inclusion in family life. I repeat, do not talk to me about anthropology without knowing anything about it!
Ignorant, pompous asses in the church.
ETA2: There are many more pieces of head-desking hilarity further on in the instrumentum laboris, but I'm going to quit quoting them because this entry would never end. Oh man, this will be good reading...
