Doug PollardWee are the world - the Pope turns green
January 5th 2009 02:28
Vatican loo rolls?
In the vast aching void created by the holiday season, almost anything made news. Already a Christmas fixture, the Pope increased his coverage by attempting to marshall green-ish arguments to buttress the church’s positions on sex, gender and contraception.
First he drew parallels between the effect greenhouse gases have on the environment, and the effect the acceptance of sexual and gender diversity has on society. I suppose, given his background, one must accept his expertise on toxic gases, but when it comes to sex, what does he know?
Then he posited an environmental cause for all this sex and gender confusion. There’s too much oestrogen in drinking water, he said, because women take the contraceptive pill. Their oestrogen-enhanced pee gets into drinking water supplies and disrupts the natural order. Sperm counts fall. The difference between the sexes blurs.
Actually, women's pee contains oestrogen whether they’re on the pill or not. In fact, according to the University of St Andrews, Scotland, the more attractive and fertile the woman, the more oestrogen she pees.
It’s true that contraceptive pills contain synthetic oestrogens which are not broken down in the body as quickly as nature-derived oestrogen (from horses, apparently – it’s amazing what you find when you Google), but pill manufacturers claim that what is eventually excreted is environmentally harmless. Well, they would, wouldn’t they?
It’s true that the levels of oestrogen have been increasing in rivers around the world. But levels in drinking water remain extremely low, and in countries where we don’t drink recycled water (the majority), they’re undetectable.
(Waste water treatment doesn’t remove oestrogen and similar chemicals, although there is a process available which, ironically, turns them into the greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide!)
And there are many other chemicals in the water supply which mimic oestrogen, feminising fish and amphibians. These come, not from nature-denying contraceptive-pill-popping feminists, but from industry. They are the breakdown products of process in the petrochemical and plastics industries. They are found in furniture, carpets, underlay, some paints - and plastic water bottles.
A third announcement from the Vatican got somewhat less attention. The Pope has decreed that in future, he will decide which Italian state laws will apply in Vatican City.
Since the conclusion of the Lateran Treaty in 1929, which created the sovereign independent state of Vatican City, Italian law automatically applies in the Vatican City State unless it conflicts with pontifical or canon law. The Pope has now declared independence.
Allegedly he was disturbed at the prospect of having to recognise same sex civil unions.
Apparently, as far as the Pope is concerned, everything’s about sex.
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