Transgender issues have emerged, in the past year, as the left’s newest “civil rights” fight—and now, even Pope Francis has weighed in on the debate.
Liberals clearly aren’t going to like what he has to say.
In a transcript released by the Vatican on Tuesday, Pope Francis slammed the liberal transgender fight during a private meeting with Polish bishops last week.
Calling it “ideological colonization,” Pope Francis expressed outcry over the indoctrination of children in western countries: “Today, children—children!—are taught in school that everyone can choose his or her sex.”
While the most public transgender fights have been centered around school bathrooms and locker rooms—pitting the right to self-expression for transgender students against the right to safety for everyone else—there’s an even bigger fight going on in the classrooms themselves. Namely, whether it’s appropriate that teachers, in the name of “tolerance” and “diversity,” should be indoctrinating America’s children with a pro-transgender ideology.
But Pope Francis took a much more Christian-centric approach as to why this was wrong. He elaborated by quoting his predecessor, retired Pope Benedict, who said: “God created man and woman; God created the world in a certain way… and we are doing the exact opposite.”
The pope added his own words, even more succinctly: “We are experiencing a moment of the annihilation of man as the image of God,” by thinking humans can change their gender.
The pope has, thus far, been unexpectedly popular among the American left for being more liberal than his predecessor on issues like gay marriage, economics, and immigration. But his recent comments about the transgender fight—which he called “terrible”—is sure to raise some eyebrows among liberals.
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