Denver Archbishop - Media Scapegoats Religion Re: Club Q Shootings

I think this story speaks to some really important dynamics which are currently very much at the fore in society. To sum it up I would say it goes something like this: Religion is stupid and makes you hate people. Gay is good. Catholic leaders - who are mostly gay themselves, yet are supposed to teach the opposite (ie sex is only for the creation of life) - find themselves in a difficult position where they want to be pro-gay but not too pro-gay. No matter how pro gay Christians are, it will never be pro gay enough for gays. The “unmitigated tragedy” of a mass shooting at a Colorado Springs gay nightclub prompted “irresponsible” press coverage that wrongly scapegoated religious communities for their stands on sexual morality and identity, Archbishop Samuel J. Aquila of Denver has said . Given the fact that the Church as a body appears to be doing its level best to give very mixed messages about sexual morality and identity at the moment, I find it frustrating to hear a bishop, one of t...