Dear Editor,
In The Daily Herald of March 26, an article under the title “Catholic college in the DR bans gay US Ambassador,” “The Catholic Bishops of the Dominican Republic recently sent a strong letter condemning the behaviour of the openly gay US Ambassador, who they accuse of using his post to promote his lifestyle and the homosexual agenda.”
Well, well, well... How moral. I’ve not heard any protest from Catholics about the thousands of priests and bishops that have molested thousands of children under their care. Or is that perhaps fine according to the Catholics?
While this US Ambassador has been chosen for the quality of his work as an ambassador, he does not molest other men or children while thousands of Priests and Bishops and other “men of the cloth” have molested children in the name of Jesus or God is quite despicable.
The Vatican for decades have tried to hide this fact by replacing these child molesters to other locations or even taken them into the Vatican to protect them from prosecution by the law. In many cases this did not work and the Vatican has paid hundreds of millions of dollars to the victims of the church.
One might ask themselves what is worse, a male ambassador who has a male partner or a Catholic Priest who molests hundreds of children leaving them scarred for life?
God created us all in his image (Genesis 1:27)! Perhaps you could draw the conclusion that God is heterosexual, bisexual, homosexual and perhaps not sexual at all. But if you draw the conclusion that homosexuality is a sin based on Leviticus 18:22, Leviticus 20:13, 1 Corinthians 6:9-10, Romans 1:26-28, then one should conclude that God is NOT perfect! Or did God make a mistake creating homosexuality?
To me it is very clear that Catholics have different measurements for different people. It’s just hypocritical to state that being born a heterosexual is perfect, and being born a homosexual is a sin and one will not enter the kingdom of heaven.
I am not gay, but I have met many gay people and some of my friends are gay. I know that most of the gay people are very understanding to people’s problems and helping others instead of condemning them, like the Catholics do.
It’s even worse than this; While Catholics state that gay people will not enter the Kingdom of heaven (period) they will allow rapists, mass murderers and many other criminals, even the ones who were so bad they got the death sentence, as long as they accept Jesus as their Saviour.
Based on your (Catholics) hypocritical beliefs, I would never want to go to heaven (Psalm 26:4) to walk next to rapists, murderers, hypocrites, priests, bishops and other criminals. I’d rather go to Hell were all the good people are. Besides, heaven must be really boring as nothing happens there. Hell, however, is a constant party with BBQ fests, dancing and other frolic acts that the church condones.
But all this doesn’t really matter as I am an atheist and I don’t believe in fairy tales, unicorns, talking snakes, the tooth fairy, apples of wisdom, immaculate conception, miracles or an invisible superman in the sky.
TS Garp
