Tagging your porn with “catholic” or “pro-life” isn’t cute.. I mean really.
It’s not even the tastful stuff, it’s just down right nasty and trying to get a rise out of religious people.
I get that the Catholic church perpetrates some awfulness, also I can’t wrap my head around pro-lifeness. But you know, these people that believe these things HAVE A RIGHT TO. They also deserve some amount of mutual respect. If you want to point out fallacies in the church, do it. Tag it as “religion” or “Catholic”. If you want to post a pro-choice argument. Do it, and tag it accordingly. Do not post your nasty porn and tag it as “Catholic” and then laugh when people get offended. These people have a right to practice their religion. They have a right to post about their religion. They shouldn’t be mocked in this incredibly childish and offensive way. They shouldn’t be told to “get over” the nasty things that are popping up under their tag. The blogs that are posting and tagging these items should be reprimanded. Because it’s incredibly offensive, and frankly has nothing to do with Catholicism. Tumblr has done a bang up job (I think.) of preventing this type of thing from happening to other groups represented on here. Why aren’t they trying to clean up the Catholic tag?
Just saying…
PS. I’m super ok with porn being on tumblr, I just think it’s incredibly incredibly wrong that it is being tagged under things like “Pro Life” “Parenting”, “Children” and “Religion.” and allowed to stay on the tag. If you want to look at porn, that’s great. But trying to get people to accidentally stumble upon it because they track tags that have NOTHING to do with pornographic images, and then being an ass when they get upset…. That’s just uncalled for, disrespectful and rude.
Bishop William Lori of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops testified before a House Judiciary subcommittee on Oct. 26 about the “grave threats to religious liberty that have emerged even since June.” Lori specifically singled out the administration’s refusal to defend the constitutionality of the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act and state efforts to expand marriage equality to gays and lesbians:
The federal Department of Justice (DoJ) has ratcheted up its attack on the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) by mischaracterizing it as an act of bigotry….If the label of “bigot” sticks to our Church and many other churches—especially in court, under the Constitution—because of their teaching on marriage, the result will be church-state conflicts for many years to come.
As I shared earlier this week, many Catholics do not share the views of the Church’s leaders on many LGBT issues.
