°The New Inquisition
Lots of interesting pieces in the most recent Reartikulacija and Transmediale. Still reading, but from Tatjana Greif’s “Euro-sins and the New Inquisition”:
Convinced that homosexuals represent a global threat to the planet and may also endanger the survival of the human species, later on that same month the Pope called for ecological measures against homosexuality. He stated that saving mankind from homosexuals and transsexuals was just as important as saving the Earth from climate change or the rainforest from deforestation. Homosexual behavior leads to the self-destruction of the human race. It is no coincidence then, that for the “cleaning” of society, and for the clerical hygiene of moral depravity, ecology happens to be the nearest at hand. It is precisely the use of ecology as a guise for the ever more poisonous instigation against the rights of sexual minorities, and an ever more atrocious discursive eccentricity of the Vatican that bear testimony to the absolute incapability of religion to control human sexuality.
From Ratzinger’s diatribe: “Something like an ecology of man is needed, understood in the proper sense.”
