How do you get stains out of that outfit?It was a most regrettable week for the Vatican, and if 'they' don't realize it (which I'm sure 'they' don't), so much the worse.
First we had Pope Benedict XVI trying to draw a comparison between sexual orientation and global warming. He actually said that heterosexuals had to be protected from homosexuals just as the rain forest needed to be protected from climate change, or some such nonsense.
We haven't come very far since Lot suggested that his virgin daughters be given to the raiders of Sodom so that the same barbarians wouldn't perform homosexual acts. Like turning your daughters over to be raped was a really terrific idea.
We also have the Vatican trying to get behind Galileo Galilei in an embarrassing love fest. It was a mere sixteen years ago that Pope John Paul II 'cleared' the heretic who had the audacity to proclaim that the earth revolved around the sun in the 17th century. Now the Vatican is trying to focus on Galileo's faith to prove that faith and science are not mutually exclusive. Dare I say that if the Vatican had declared me a heretic and confined me to house arrest, I definitely would have suffered a loss of faith.
I foresee a time, maybe another five hundred years down the road, where the Vatican sees the folly of their homophobic ways. Maybe I'm just way too optimistic.
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