Vatican tells U.N. that critics of gays under attack

[Alex]

http://richarddawkins.net/articles/606711-vatican-tells-u-n-that-critics-of-gays-under-attack


Alex's comment:  
Vatican is talking nonsense here.  The Evangelical Christian Right in Hong Kong has employed similar tactics to portrait themselves as victims of discrimination, accusing human rights activists' condemnation of their discrimination against homosexuals as "reverse discrimination."  That is, they say that human rights activists are discriminating against the negative religious stance on homosexuality.  Our response is simple.   Discrimination against homosexuality is a discrimination.  Criticism on discrimination is not discrimination against discrimination.  Discrimination is not a human right.  An attack on discrimination is not an act of discrimination against nor violation of human rights of the discriminator, is an effort to reduce discrimination and to uphold human rights for all!
香港基督教界曾出現類似的荒謬言論：「你們批評我們歧視同性戀，就是歧視我們，是『逆向歧視』！」概念必須澄清：歧視同性戀是一種歧視。批評歧視不是歧視歧視，是企圖減少歧視。歧視不是一種人權；批評歧視不是侵犯歧視者的人權，是保護被歧視者的人權。

[XOX]

What hypocrisy! Let's finally be rid of this damned medieval institution once and for all.

[Alex]

A related question 相關問題:
Is discrimination against homosexuality a religious freedom?
歧視同性戀是否宗教自由？

Answer 答:
Is human sacrifice a religious freedom? No. That is cruel and violates universal human rights.
活人獻祭是否宗教自由？不是。那是殘忍、違反普世人權的。

[Alex]

Vatican: Gay Rights Opponents are Real Victims
April 18, 2011
http://www.religiondispatches.org/archive/atheologies/4440/vatican%3A_gay_rights_opponents_are_real_victims

...according to Vatican representative Archbishop Silvano Tomasi, is that ending discrimination against gays, lesbians, and transgender persons would make those who oppose such human rights the real victims.

...Tomasi then likened homosexual behavior to pedophilia and incest: “But states can, and must, regulate behaviors, including various sexual behaviors. Throughout the world, there is a consensus between societies that certain kinds of sexual behaviors must be forbidden by law. Pedophilia and incest are two examples.”

To add fuel to the fire, he turned the debate away from violence based on sexual orientation and gender identity to “a disturbing trend in some of these social debates: People are being attacked for taking positions that do not support sexual behavior between people of the same sex…they are stigmatized, and worse—they are vilified, and prosecuted.” He never addressed the reality of actual violence (killings, torture, rape, criminal sanctions, violence, bullying) against gays, lesbians, and transgender persons taking place around the world.



Alex's comment:  Vatican's nonsense continues.  And my debunking is continually effective.