What Benedict has said about Muslims is positively benign compared to what he has said about homosexuals.
Since homosexuals don't kill nuns, burn churches and just blow up people at random, I'm guessing they won't be getting an apology anytime soon.
2006-09-19 17:26:06 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
No, but given the current response, it suggests that the only way gay people will get anywhere with the Vatican is to riot & torch the pontiff's effigy.
2006-09-19 17:28:28 · answer #1 · answered by NHBaritone 7 · 3⤊ 3⤋
hehehe
No, I seriously doubt the Vatican or Pope will ever issue any apologies over their words. I don't think they would even if we did kill nuns, burn churches, blow up people at random, or even threatened to kill the Pope.
Instead they'd just throw out even more insults, point to that behavior as yet MORE signs as to why we're "bad" and "evil" and work to rally the faithful to fight back.
That's why we just stick to protesting with signs and chants.
And less face it, gay and lesbians only make up anywhere between 3% - 8% (depending on whose studies you read) of the entire global population. That's not nearly as large as the number of Muslims. I mean, do you think if he had said anything bad about, say, the Jains and the Jains (who are majorly nonviolent) suddenly got all violent that he'd apologize? Nope, they don't have enough people (that and he'd have to explain who Jains are to a lot of people who've never heard about Jainism).
In terms of adherents #1 is Christianity, #2 is Islam, #3 is Hinduism. So if any of these folks make a fuss in the world about anything, it matters (large number of followers). So if the world has 7 billion people in it then 8% is 560,000,000 and 3% is only 210,000,000 and considering that Christianity has 2,100,000,000 adherents and Islam has 1,300,000,000 adherents, and Hinduism has 900,000,000 adherents then you can see why the Pope is going to apologize to Muslims before he'll ever apologize to homosexuals. We're simply outnumbered and don't seem to matter as much that way.
2006-09-20 03:03:12 · answer #2 · answered by gabriel_zachary 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Seriously, God, I don't know why you're still supporting people like the Pope - GEEZ
Also, I think "You are obviously gay that's why you hate the Pope" wins the award for the most retarded, ignorant, closed-minded comment I have yet to see in the Religion & Spirituality section of Yahoo! Anwers.
And that, my friends, is saying a lot.
2006-09-20 00:40:17 · answer #3 · answered by SecondStar 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I don't ever expect the current Pope to make an apology to homosexuals.
2006-09-20 00:35:17 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Homosexuals haven't organized themselves to the point where radical homosexuals can take over and start ordering the killings of heterosexuals yet. It hopefully won't happen, but it might. But since homosexuals are incapable or unwilling to exercise force, their power is vastly weakened.
2006-09-20 00:44:40 · answer #5 · answered by Fenris 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Never. Freedom of speech. He is not going to apologize for having an opinion on that.
2006-09-20 02:49:37 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Heaven forbid the Pope apologize for telling the truth.
2006-09-20 00:28:32 · answer #7 · answered by Dysthymia 6 · 3⤊ 2⤋
You are obviously gay that's why you hate the Pope. Your kind will never accept him because your beliefs collide. If the Pope agrees with gays then he is not a Pope. His beliefs,opinions and way of thinking are all based on God's teaching. He is just following and preaching God's words. He doesn't hate the sinners, he hates their sins.
2006-09-20 00:34:19 · answer #8 · answered by ? 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Though I am not Catholic I believe the Pope has a greater obligation to God Himself to keep the truth rather than appoligizing for stating truth regarding a sin.
2006-09-20 00:30:26 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
Benedict is not "afraid" of homosexuals, he simply disagrees with their lifestyle.
2006-09-20 00:28:32 · answer #10 · answered by stpolycarp77 6 · 3⤊ 2⤋