Update March 5, 2011: Google cache is now pointing to a later version of the CBCP article. Consequently, the link here now has been changed to go to a PDF copy of the article containing the original “homo” slur headline.
The CBCP recently launched a book written by a missionary about a condition they called “SSA” or “same sex attraction.” The book merely reiterates the Church’s preposterous stance on homosexuality as rebuking not the orientation but the actions that define the orientation (e.g. homosexual relationships and activity). While they claimed that they did not condemn homosexuality, they do say that it is something that requires “redemption.” So, although they agree that it is a “natural disposition” and therefore, by their lights, a facet of God’s intentional design, homosexuality requires some level of atonement. Apparently, gays are created sick and forced to be well.
What was revealing about the CBCP’s whitewashing of its continuing history of homophobia was that when the article was first published, they called on “homos to come out.” The article was later surreptitiously revised with the more politically-correct headline of “Bishops urge homosexuals not to be afraid.”
What should homosexuals be afraid of anyway but of people meddling with their private lives and depriving them of equal rights?
[…] down in front of my laptop, and writing this short piece. My reason is simple: to illustrate the sort of “values formation” that a lot of these Catholic schools indoctrinate their students […]
Wtf. o_O Goes to show how ignorant the old loons in the CBCP really are.
Whoah, Bishops Pleez!
lulz, even after almost a week, I can still see the original un-PC version in Google's cached copy
I can almost picture CBCP's disclaimer….
"Castro said that he does not know where the announcement with the derogatory title came from but it is definitely false. It only goes to show na talagang may element of deception sa pro-Gay. Yan ang nakikita ko dito. Gusto nilang galitin ang tao sa Simbahan, said Castro."
sooo… are they going to blame the leaked draft on some insidious gay plot to undermine the church as well?
And then I saw the ad google cached and I was all like 😀