Pope

I've read what the Pope said a few times now, and yea, I think he's having a pop. At first I thought it was a badly reported story, and the knee-jerkers were going off on one, but after paroosing, I think he's being clever enough to vague up the whole dig.
It's a translation, of course. .

"We need something like human ecology, meant in the right way. The Church speaks of human nature as 'man' or 'woman' and asks that this order is respected.
This is not out-of-date metaphysics. It comes from the faith in the Creator and from listening to the language of creation, despising which would mean self-destruction for humans and therefore a destruction of the work itself of God.
What is often expressed and signified with the word 'gender' leads to the human auto-emancipation from creation and from the Creator. The human being wants to make himself on his own and to decide always and exclusively by himself about what concerns him.
But, in so doing, the human being lives against the truth and against the Spirit creator. Rain forests deserve, yes, our protection but the human being - as a creature which contains a message that is not in contradiction with his freedom but is the condition of his freedom - does not deserve it less."

He's having a pop, isn't he?
Trendy liberalism is one of my niggles. It's got me into hot water with sandal wearers on the net, but whatever I think about all that, this veiled papal gay-bashing is quite sinister. When someone in power, with so much influence over millions of people, speaks out against a specific group, then we can draw parallels with events in recent history that are quite unsettling.
When I left the Anne Frank house last month, I thought to myself how wonderful it was that the place is now a museum, so we can go and learn, kids go there, school parties and students, and when we go, realise that singling out a group for persecution because of their race, religion, gender, whatever, is a basically evil and wrong thing to do. And that's not hippy bulshit or the 'liberal' way of thinking, it's just the way it is!
When I walked around Anne Frank's secret annexe, I thought about how chilling it was that these events, the persecution of a whole race of people, happened only sixty years ago in Europe. And yet when you read that the current pope is denouncing millions of people's lives, I kind of get the worrying feeling that all this could all happen again, if we let it. Am I being knee-jerk?
And where's the Ross/Brandian public uproar this time?
You know why people aren't bothered? Because he's a man of god, and because of that, there just can't be any harm in him, can there?