Wednesday, May 23, 2012

A Church, Obsessed with Sex

„Gallup tested the morality of 18 issues, and birth control came out on top as the most acceptable, beating divorce, which garnered 67 percent approval […].

The poll appeared on the same day as headlines about Catholic Church leaders fighting President Obama’s attempt to get insurance coverage for contraception for women who work or go to college at Catholic institutions. The church insists it’s an argument about religious freedom, not birth control. But, really, it’s about birth control, and women’s lower caste in the church. […] And it’s about a church that is obsessed with sex in ways it shouldn’t be, and not obsessed with sex in ways it should be.

The bishops and the Vatican care passionately about putting women in chastity belts. Yet they let unchaste priests run wild for decades, unconcerned about the generations of children who were violated and raped and passed around like communion wine.“

Ich weiß nicht, ob das heute noch so ist, aber wenn man früher in Rottenburg am Neckar etwas in der Zeitung schrieb, was gegen den Bischof oder ganz allgemein gegen die Institution der katholischen Kirche ging, hieß es oft: „Es gab Bemerkungen.“ Das bedeutete, man sprach im Bischöflichen Ordinariat darüber. Über diese Kolumne in der heutigen „New York Times“ gab es bestimmt auch Bemerkungen – im Vatikan. Die irischstämmige und katholisch erzogene Journalistin MAUREEN DOWD nimmt neuerdings kein Blatt mehr vor den Mund.