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Tue, 29 June 2010 11:06 AM
“Stabat Mater - Madonna's Punctured Heart"
This month I want to write about how history has forgotten the persecution that gay people have lived through the centuries. This time I would like to do so by loosely translating the work of an Italian philosopher and artist Raffaele Ciotola who has been an inspiration to me, www.lamadonnadelliomosessuali.com. In the past, especially under the Nazis, discrimination has been so aggressive that it has often led to the death for those of different races or in the case of gay people by the misunderstanding that homosexuality was a choice rather than a condition.
For too long society has ignored those wearing the “pink triangle” and how they died in the ovens of the Nazi death camps and now it seems that even the gay community itself has forgotten. However with this piece I would like to remember that suffering and hopefully prick the conscience of everybody enough to get them to remember the point I am making.
On December 2008 France presented to The United Nations a motion in favour of decriminalising homosexuality all over the world. We should, of course, remember that in some countries homosexuality is still considered a crime, punishable within law, and the sentence in more than a few can be death. Among the states called to subscribe to the motion to fight homophobia and race crime is the Vatican. The Vatican, however, refused to sign the agreement despite verbally declaring itself in favour of respecting and tolerating people from the LGBT community. The daily reality shows that The Vatican has no intention of opening a dialog about the problems of discriminations and violence so painfully experienced by millions of men and women. Sadly we have to admit that although the Vatican would like to represent Gods word on earth and that the word of God means LOVE, they make a very poor representation of the word and love itself.
As a Christian worshipper I consider certain behaviour as an insult to the education God gave to us. According to Him all men are born equal, under Mary’s love. This welcomes everybody indiscriminately. Only God has, and must have, the rights to give and take away life no human beings can or should do so for reasons dictated by hate, ignorance and intolerance. The real message God wants to give us is one of welcome, of tolerance to every single man.
Personally I don’t find this welcome, this brotherhood and respect in The Vatican’s teachings. Teachings that keep reproducing intolerance and exclusion of other people leading to discrimination, jail sentences, violence and murder just because people are “different”.
If The Vatican had signed up to Frances motion they would have demonstrated to the whole world the true spirit of Gods love and the infinite grace he offers us, trough the gift most precious in the world, the gift of life.
However, one thing is sure, I’m not a saint!!! Even so , although I’m not worthy of God’s feet, as Christian I forgive Vatican, because God has always taught me to forgive. I leave the rest to the conscience of those in the corridors of power at The Vatican
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