Oh my...

A news item from a Philippine newspaper read:

"AS the Vatican prepared to select a successor to Pope John Paul II, church leaders in the Philippines, Asia's largest Roman Catholic nation, urged the College of Cardinals not to elect a "liberal" pontiff.

The Filipino church said that the leader of the world's more than one billion Roman Catholics must uphold church doctrine on such issues as marriage, abortion, birth control, and priesthood for women.

The Philippines is one of few countries in the world where the majority Catholics are in broad agreement with the Vatican in its opposition to abortion, artificial contraceptives, and the ordination of women priests, among other contentious issues besetting the religion in the West.

In this Southeast Asian former Spanish colony, abortion and divorce are against the law, and condoms and birth control pills are unpopular.

"If the pope is a liberal it is against the law of God," said Ramon Arguelles, the archbishop of Lipa City south of Manila.

"Liberalism is a no-no because it is anti-God, so you cannot have a pope that is anti-God," he told Agence France-Presse in an interview.

"You must have a pope who can interpret very well the laws of God and the laws of nature," said Arguelles."

Duh! Do these people read their Bible? Jesus was a liberal that's why he was crucified! Poor ignorant souls. God must be turning in his seat thinking: "Laws? I made laws?"