“And there is christian bashing . . . ” — Mike Huckabee
Ah, it couldn’t be Christmas at the ol’ Delaware Liberal without some good ol’ Catholic bashing. Pope Benedict compares saving the rain forests to saving the homosexual. Beauty.
The tropical forests do deserve our protection. But man, as a creature, does not deserve any less. What’s needed is something like a ‘human ecology,’ understood in the right sense. It’s not simply an outdated metaphysics if the Church speaks of the nature of the human person as man and woman, and asks that this order of creation be respected.