Anti-Gay Person of the Year: Pope Benedict XVI
Tis the season for 2005’s bests. But lets not forget the best of the worst.
Washington Blade editors have named Pope Benedict XVI 2005’s Anti-Gay Person of the Year.
From banning gay priests to publicly lobbying against same-sex marriage rights in Spain and Italy, Pope Benedict XVI appears to be taking a swift approach to excluding gay people from equal rights across the globe.
“His rhetoric is obscene. He wants gays clearly taken care of — it’s almost like the Final Solution,†said Kara Speltz, a Catholic lesbian activist for Soulforce, an organization dedicated to ending anti-gay discrimination within all religions.
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I’m not a Catholic (I’m not even sure I have a religion) BUT a number of friends and acquaintances – some of them Catholic – have uniformly expressed a feeling of unease / dislike for this pope. None of them could quite specify why that feeling exists, only that it never manifested itself with regards to any previous pope. And to quote Star Wars, “I have a bad feeling about this.”