Cardinal Wuerl decries ‘aggressive gender ideology’

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Lamenting “aggressive gender ideology” and criticizing the Obama administration’s recent letter on the use of bathrooms and locker rooms by public school students who state they are transgendered, Cardinal Donald Wuerl of Washington emphasized in a recent blog post that the human body “is not extraneous, but goes to our very essence.”
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“Before all else in this world, before we are able to form a single thought or make any decisions, from the very moment of our origin and conception, we have a body that is intrinsically sexually differentiated and constituted male or female in a way that cannot really be changed,” he said. “Furthermore, the body reveals that man and woman are made to complement one another – they are made for love, the reality that forms the basis of family.”
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“This is the objective, intrinsic, self-evident truth of who and what we are,” he continued. “Revealed in the body and discernable by right reason, this truth thus applies to all regardless of religious beliefs. Also, one’s subjective choices or beliefs cannot alter this reality – what is revealed in the body as one sex cannot be changed to the other.”
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I wonder if anybody else sees a certain presentational problem - as regards talking to non-Catholics, non-believers and so on - with this?
 
Kaninchen said:
I wonder if anybody else sees a certain presentational problem - as regards talking to non-Catholics, non-believers and so on - with this?
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I don’t see any “presentational problem”. What he says, is truth, nature, established by God. It is not “relative”, but absolute.
 
Kaninchen said:
I wonder if anybody else sees a certain presentational problem - as regards talking to non-Catholics, non-believers and so on - with this?
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There is definitely a presentational problem on the Obama administration’s side of this. Wonderful thing, perspective. I guess we will just have to see how it all plays in the long run.
 
sps49 said:
There is definitely a presentational problem on the Obama administration’s side of this. Wonderful thing, perspective. I guess we will just have to see how it all plays in the long run.
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Inevitably, I was thinking more about possible wry smiles on the faces of those hearing such decrials. 🙂
 
Wow. I totally unexpected that from that Cardinal in particular. :clapping:
 
Kaninchen said:
Inevitably, I was thinking more about possible wry smiles on the faces of those hearing such decrials. 🙂
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Sure, I expect such a thing. The Tanakh is filled with examples of people ignoring, mocking, or attacking prophets. I understand prophecy more as witnessing to truth than foretelling the future, though one may make a good gander at foretelling the future should one reject the truth.
 
TCEL said:
Sure, I expect such a thing. The Tanakh is filled with examples of people ignoring, mocking, or attacking prophets. I understand prophecy more as witnessing to truth than foretelling the future, though one may make a good gander at foretelling the future should one reject the truth.
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My comment was really more about medium and message and how they might be perceived but if it’s just about witnessing, as opposed to communicating, then it’s not that important.
 
LittleFlower378 said:
Good points by the Cardinal that I havent thought of. We are made from the moment of our conception male or female. We have a body from that conception as well. Goes right along with the protection of life in the womb too.
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Not necessarily. There are, albeit rare, intersex conditions where the chromosomes are messed up, and others where hormonal issues in utero result in the child being born with ambiguous genitalia or genitalia of the opposite sex.

That said most suffering gender identity issues do have normal chromosomes and bodies that correspond to their genetic gender. The issue seems to be in the brain. Some scientific studies do point to structural brain differences and it may be a form of hormonal intersex.

The best options are to pray for these people, be kind towards them, and hope scientific research finds a better solution to the very real angst they feel, than mutilating surgery.
 
Kaninchen said:
My comment was really more about medium and message and how they might be perceived but if it’s just about witnessing, as opposed to communicating, then it’s not that important.
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I agree that communication methods are important, and I understand the underlying irony of the headline, but one simply cannot please all the people all the time. Sometimes, in one’s efforts to make a message more appealing, truth gets watered down. This is true, because I’ve done it. There comes a point where no matter how lovingly one tries to communicate the truth, it gets rejected. And the prophets tended to be far more aggravating than milque-toast, anyway.
 
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