The Catholic Church issues another statement about gay marriage

[If my soul was made of stone]

The reasoning that they offer makes me mentally revisit my prior arguments from here about whether the same logic applies to heterosexual couples where one or both involved are infertile, as it's not like that can produce life either despite adhering to the rites thereof. At this level of discourse I'd honestly prefer merely shrouding all of one's selfish taboos in inscrutable mysticism and myth as opposed to these sorts of justifications that just leave more holes and questions than satisfying answers and only serve to prolong the sort of discourse that makes one's brains pour in viscous liquid out of their ears. I know that the sentiment here is hardly anything new, but hearing it affirmed once more still leaves me a bit livid. If I had no tact I'd make some very theatrical and edgy Crowley-esque statements about my own convictions regarding the intersection of spirituality and sexuality, but I don't think that pontification is what's needed in a time such as this.

[If my soul was made of stone]

A small but steadily increasing amount of the new queer religious bloc is being driven by heathens like me, at least in the more hippie faiths rather than the Varg Vikernes-type folk, even when said faiths arguably rest more on heteronormative essentialism and mystifying fertility and family than a lot of forms of Christianity. Whether or not this is a good thing for broader queer visibility and liberation is debatable, but it's helped me a lot personally.

[If my soul was made of stone]

A small but steadily increasing amount of the new queer religious bloc is being driven by heathens like me, at least in the more hippie faiths rather than the Varg Vikernes-type folk, even when said faiths arguably rest more on heteronormative essentialism and mystifying fertility and family than a lot of forms of Christianity. Whether or not this is a good thing for broader queer visibility and liberation is debatable, but it's helped me a lot personally.

I know someone, a lesbian who's been engaged to her girlfriend/fiancee for about seven years for whatever reason, who worships Jesus as one god among others in an Eclectic Wiccan context.

I feel a distinct inadequacy over my degree of syncretism now.