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Umm, JJ?

Exactly what in our previous acquaintance, or in fact, my last two posts, leads you to the belief that I'm 'siding' with this Pope or any Pope?

And I'm not homosexual. I'm bi. So happens I've been with another gal for a number of years and we'd like our civil rights as a couple, now, thanks.

You spend a lot of time typing, here. You could do to read a bit, if that's not too much to ask Your Homophobic Prophetickalness.

Trust me, I'm not exactly hanging on the Vatican's every word, here. Doesn't mean this is about 'sides' in some kind of game. It's about people getting along. And hopefully, some of what it's said he said will stick. *This* issue, same old stuff, though, clearly.

Mind you, I say the below in context that it rather appeared this Pope had done a pretty good job here on the visit-to-America thing. I welcome a lot of what he said and hope the Catholics hold him to it.

Well, it seems despite certain spin, ol' Cardinal Ratzinger is still up to his old tricks.

But then again, I turned down Catholic universities when I'd had the chance, even in what he apparently feels was an unacceptably 'lax' time High school was quite enough.

That whole thing about not teaching risk management regarding sexuality in schools, though, (Shouldn't people know all about that by college and 'too late,' anyway?) ...Seriously, you can only say, 'Don't do that,' so many times and in so many ways, and it's all essentially the same: hardly a preoccupation for university curricula, I should think.

I mean, I grew up in a time when the AIDS phenomenon and associated scares supposedly was making people more chaste. It didn't. Everyone just had to convince themselves it was 'love forever, really,' every time the hormones kicked in. Which is surprisingly easy, it seems, if not exactly the road to conjugal bliss. :)

As a graduate of a historically catholic university, this article makes me sick to my stomach.

Observer:

Exactly. This is just like his last post. Restrict academic freedom, eliminate freedom of speech and have theology trump science. Sounds antithetical to the very purpose of colleges and universities. This is a prescription for indoctrination not education.

Mr. Reilly's interpretation of the meaning of Pope Benedict's ideas for Catholic education is a sure prescription for the decline of that education.