Legal Recognition to Homosexual Unions

Legal Recognition to Homosexual Unions

From a colleague:
"This document, authored by Ratzinger, is a clear instance of ideology (in Althusser's sense) at work. It reveals the contradictions within a religious institution that putatively stands for the redemptive message of love for all that simultaneously constitutes itself, and the instituion for which it speaks, through quite specific and hateful exclusions.

May I recommend that those of us who teach queer theory courses and other courses in gay and lesbian literature use this document to discuss the institutional uses of hateful speech and the abuse of reason? Ratzinger is now being called an intellectual by those who are trying to make his election acceptable to the world. Therefore, it is perhaps the responsibility of intellectuals to demonstrate that this description is intellectually dishonest because of the contradictions it conceals."