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[iftsiga]

Of interest to a few of you: Vatican to bar homosexual priests: NYT (whether you're some form of alternative Catholic or simply from a "look at the new fundie pope go, next he'll excommunicate women who have orgasms in marriage, ha ha" standpoint.)

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[xauenmurph.livejournal.com]

I'd like to see all ass-backwards medieval and fundamentalist religions alienate large numbers of followers, but it doesn't seem to function to keep them starved down to harmless size, sadly.

[simmeringhatred.livejournal.com]

Mainly because people feel like they owe the church something, usually both their fealty and their cash. Partly fear of hell, party fear of social exclusion, party intellectual laziness I guess.