Whether gays are acceptable in Catholic society

On Thursday, October 16, 2014, americablog published an article titled Facing conservative backlash, Pope no longer “welcomes” gays.

This article gave me an attention because the Pope has announced that gay people could be accepted as brothers and sisters in the Catholic society IF they accept the Lord and have good will.

The author, John Aravosis who is an American Democratic political consultant, writer, attorney, and gay activist, excitedly reports about Pope’s announcement for accepting gays in their society in his previous article; however, the author seems upset and very disappoints in Pope for changing his word due to conservative’s oppose. The author reports that Catholics’ insistence that the Pope is infallible which means Pope can’t be wrong.

I agree with the author in some way where he reports that Catholic people insist that Pope is infallible because people believe that Pope is the most person that further from the sin in the world; therefore, believers are totally impossible to believe that Pope is accepting gays in the Catholic society. But I believe that people are not insisting Pope to be infallible, but they have taught to believed in Pope to be infallible because Pope represent as a holy father.

I can see why the author irritates about this circumstance and upset with Pope because the author says that Pope is taking his statement back by people’s complaining even though Pope believes himself that gays are acceptable in Catholic society. But in my personal opinion, it seems that Pope still remains an excuse to take his word back when he mentions that “IF gays accept the Lord”, which indicates that he still not quite sure about accepting gays in “our society”.

In my point of view, this kind of topic normally does not have answer to say who is right or wrong, but people should judge themselves with their moral system. I sometimes feel that Bible does not seem clear enough what is being really said and it sometimes truly misleads us. But no one can tell which meaning is the true or not because everyone interprets Bible in different ways (people normally interpret Bible by their circumstance).

I believe that some people might say that we need to change some of things from the Bible because it is only impossible to follow everything but it does not also apply in our generation. For instance, these days no one pay tithe with their  animal's leg. Some people argue that the tithe was very small amount of value in old generation, but it is too much for our generation, because some people suffer with  financial problem for paying the tithe in these days. Nevertheless, conservative people still say that God’s words are unchangeable, therefore we need to obey the Bible whatsoever. 

I agree with  the author that political pressure manipulates Pope because most people who have most power and money to control our society is conservative, but the author's argument does not look very sharp or persuasive in this situation because he emotionally approach to this case way too closely; he just seems like to spits out words to expose his anger through an article. 

No body really knows if  Pope could have interpreted the Bible in different way than others, or he might have wanted to embrace all human kinds within God, but it still gives
hard time for gays anyway. One thing I want to tell these people that it might takes for a while to accept them equally; however, the day will eventually come to see them equal just like our history that all women are allowed to vote in 1930s.