Thursday, March 20, 2008
"New Sins" Remain Old When Sexuality Is Involved
Adapting its traditional values to changing times is how the institution of the Catholic Church has held such power around the world for so many centuries. The "New Seven Deadly Sins" announced by the Vatican last week are being hailed as progressive and even many liberals can get on board with them, such as the ones that deal with social justice and the environment. Most of them don't have to do with sexuality but the ones that do don't bring the Church into the 21st century in any way. The updates did not change any stance on abortion, birth control, or any issue remotely dealing with sexuality in any way. As a result, millions of faithful world-wide are still being taught the equivalent of schools' "abstinence-only" programs in church -- and as the readings for SO240 have shown us, that actually leads to increased unwanted teenage pregnancies and STDs. It seems like the Church can change with the times to some extent to stay relevant with many issues, but sexuality is one it cannot bring itself to modernize its views on -- no matter how beneficial it would be for the health of its followers.
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It's a silly list that could be consolidated and should be more concrete. One of them is something like "biologically unethical practices." Not very useful for an item on a list of ethical guidelines.
I'm not too worried about the church. Took them a while to get on board with Galileo, and now they basically say it's heresy not to believe in evolution which is many, many, many steps above the nearly 50% of the American population who believe the earth is 6000 years old.
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