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I'm an atheist, obviously I don't believe anything is punishment from God.
That said, trans rights, fuck the haters, etc. etc. As long as we're all just referencing the topic with slogans for now.
Anyway, I'm getting a lot of responses that are just 'bad things exist in the world, they happened after gay marriage, post hoc ergo propter hoc'.
I'll just here that 1. I like half those things or think they're being misrepresented 2. I don't see a necessary connection between gay marriage and the other things, someone has to actually draw that line and 3. I was asking for knowledge about how the Vatican does religious scholarship, not trying to get into an argument about whether bad things exist in the modern world.
I can point out the connection actually: it resides in the activist network designed to make the former happen and its ideological justification for existing which is based on gnostic individualist morality.
Such an apparatus would never be dissolved without defeat and would always eventually lead to ever greater perceived liberation of the mind from the body, and it had already allied itself with then transsexualism among other things.
Victory for gay rights leading to mastectomies was, in retrospect, entirely predictable. Even as I refused to believe it at the time.
Now if we want to argue about the possibility of a gay rights movement that doesn't lead here that's another thing entirely, but I'm unfortunately pessimist about the possibility thereof given history.
Seems to me homosexuality is best treated with the benign indifference of a minor vice or oddity. Other paths don't look like they lead to good places for any of the parties. Pride most of all.
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