No Santo Johannes Paulus

[donco6]

Does JPII deserve to be deified? Not in my book:

"As when Reagan died, people were falling over themselves to go on TV and praise this fallen icon, hailing the pontiff’s love, his courage, his dedication. Talk was already swirling about making him a saint once he passed. And when he finally did, on every news channel in America a cardinal came on and said the archangel of the Lord swept through Vatican City and brought the pontiff home, where Christ had opened the door to welcome him.

"I wondered how people of other religions were taking it all in. We do still have a few of those, non-Christian or non-Catholic Americans.

"First, I’m an atheist. I don’t believe in God as written. Doesn’t mean I’m not spiritual, but that’s another editorial. Second, or maybe first, I’m gay. And this man, this soon-to-be saint had written and said that homosexuality is, “part of a new ideology of evil, perhaps more insidious and hidden, which attempts to pit human rights against the family and against man.”

"So I am part of the new ideology of evil. According to him and his church I should not get married, ever, to the man I love. And the church loves me, the gay man, but as such I can never have sex if I want to be in the church.

More:

http://www.advocate.com/exclusive_detail.asp?id=15382

So, I haven't shed any tears, and if the man is deified, it's just another slap in the face to gay people everywhere.