Questioning of students began today at St. Thomas Aquinas Seminary in Missouri by Vatican officials. The question posed is whether the individual is or has ever been a homosexual. Welcome to the 21st century, we just leapt backwards four hundred years in ethics and morals.
Those being subjected to this line of questioning must surely find it to be hostile, demeaning and invasive. It assumes that homosexuals cannot keep a vow, which is untrue. And, since it seeks to blur the line between homosexuals and pedophiles and cause confusion regarding who is a danger to society and those who are not, it is deeply disturbing to me as well. Because to imply that every homosexual is a pedophile is too make the accusation that we are all criminals, for child molestation is punishable by law. There is huge ethical problem with this questioning, it calls to mind McCarthyism and Fascism to say the least. One may be excluded from a society because of the genetics of ones birth. America and the Church are supposed to stand against such libelous behavior, not instigate or participate in such scapegoating. If an individual is no longer judged by his or her own merits than what sort of society have we become? Do they ask if the the heterosexuals are pedophiles? Because that's what they are really asking those who are gay.
By the way, the original Judas Chair was a large pyramid shaped tower on to which the rectum or vagina of a 'heretic' could be slowly lowered in order to open them as painfully as possible.
Click on this posts title to be taken to the news article. Click on Judas Chair to take you to an article on torture during the Spanish Inquisition.
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