"Nothing's Shocking," was the title of Jane's Addiction's debut album, a reflection of its time.
I really thought I'd reached a similar level of resignation with the utterances of the high clergy of the Mexican catholic church, ever more outrageous, bigoted, homophobic, misogynist and hateful. Yet then there is Hugo Valdemar, spokesperson for the Archdiocese of Mexico.
"Father" Valdemar now argues that PRD and Marcelo Ebrard - among the forces who have fought the most against discrimination of gays in Mexico - are actually guilty of homophobia. Yes, homophobia. By "irresponsibly promoting and approving the laws that endorse marriages of the same sex," Valdemar opines, PRD and Ebrard are provoking people who feel their marriage is under attack and hence, will take it out on gays. So, by promoting gay rights, PRD and Ebrard are guilty of homophobia.
To assume for a moment Valdemar's thinking and put this horrendous logic, or the absolute lack of any, in perspective: Civil right defenders in the 1950s United States should not have promoted laws that allowed for civil rights for blacks, because this would only have provoked the white racists who burned crosses and murdered blacks. The real racists, then, were the civil rights campaigners.
Is it really any wonder that the Mexican church is losing adherents,to alternative churches and the progressive forces of secularism, literally by the day?
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