Scotland's most senior Catholic has come under fire after claiming that proposals to allow gay couples to adopt would place children "in peril".
When, oh when will people come to understand that
by definition, the church is not accountable to the them, the government, or anything other than God. Consider
Ben Summerskill, the chief executive of Stonewall, said: "We are saddened that a senior cleric is exhuming 19th Century prejudices rather than recognising the reality of life in the 21st Century.
I really have a hard time with the hubris of a statement like that. While most everyone agrees that Islam must reform if the violence is to end, few if any of us have the hubris to try and browbeat them into it -- why should these people feel free to do it to the Western church? They rob religious authority of any authority whatsoever. Our society is based on a plurality of authorities, not the centralization thereof.
# posted by John Schroeder @ 9/06/2005 05:35:00 AM
