New Pope Selected

Freshly Exhumed sends this quote from CBC: "Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Argentina has been selected as Pope of the world's 1.2 billion Catholics. He will be known as Pope Francis. He is the first Pope from the Americas. The 76-year-old was the runner-up to Benedict XVI during the last conclave. He is well-known for his humility and espouses church teachings on homosexuality, abortion and contraception. He has no Vatican experience."

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New Leader of Ignorance Cult Selected...

[Anonymous Coward]

...nothing changes.

Yawn.

Humility?

[TechyImmigrant]

This - " He is well-known for his humility"

and this - "espouses church teachings on homosexuality, abortion and contraception."

are not compatible.

Re:Humility?

[Archangel Michael]

I'm against homosexual marriage and especially against homosexual adoption. I don't think it is good for kids to be told that they don't need a mommy and a daddy, that mommy and mommy are fine and we don't need a daddy. I think it is harmful on a level that will not manifest itself for a long time, but will eventually. Kids do need both a Mommy and a Daddy, that is optimal. It is sad when we don't strive for Optimal because of selfish desires of people in a relationship that is destined to be sterile.

I'm against homosexual marriage, because it has nothing to do with equality, and has everything to do with money. I don't care if homosexual live together, love each other or whatever. However, you're extending "rights" to people based on what you THINK is fair, because you think those "rights" are being applied by some sort of homophobia or some sort of discrimination.

If the point of homosexual marriage is for "love" then I don't have a problem with it. Get married. However if you want additional "benefits" from government, you're going to have to be much clearer that it is ONLY about these things that you care about, and that it isn't about "love" at all. AND if you extend those "rights" to gay people, then you must also allow for other non-traditional marriages like polygamy, polyandry and incestuous marriages as well. If not, then you're just as discriminatory as you claim people like me are.

IF (big if) you want "fairness", I suggest rather than supporting Gay Marriage, marriage being a religious institution, that you be for repealing government benefits based on marital status, citing separation of church (marriage) and state. If you're saying that Marriage is purely secular, you're not being intellectually honest. And this is my position as a libertarian. Repeal all benefits and preferences based on marital status, and all these issues go away. Catholics can forbid gay marriage, and the Atheists of America can perform the religious act of marriage for gay people all they want, everyone is free to do as they please, without forcing anyone else to join their viewpoint. True Liberty.

That is the most fair place to be. Anything less is not fair to anyone with a different idea of marriage than you or I.

really, slashdot?

[kimvette]

Does Slashdot really need to carry this story? It has nothing to do with science, tech, gaming, or anything relevant.

It has everything to do with homophobic, misogynistic, pedophilic, and racist organization which puts on airs of setting out to do good but in reality protects child diddlers and extorting money from gullible followers while ignoring the bible which it purports to follow, nothing to do with science or tech. Why again is this on slashdot?

All hail to the new king of the pedophiles.

[Anonymous Coward]

Who I for one do not welcome.

Re:name change

[acariquara]

It's easier to commit crimes against humanity when they are going to be pinned to a different name than yours.