Cardinal George submitted his resignation, on his 75th birthday as is the standard practice. It will be a couple of years, most people think, before it is acted upon. But how much do you want to bet that as news gets around it will be spun that it's because of his outspoken opposition to having a Sodomitic/Transvestite Pride Parade that would coincide with Sunday services and provide the Sodomites the opportunity to engineer a confrontation with the faithful? Conversely, there will be Ultra-Cons who will view this as a result of his apology for the terms he used.?
Cardinal George used some string language, no doubt, and was highly criticized forsaying we didn't want to go back to the days of the KKK. Well, that's correct, we don't. The second and third incarnations of the Klan were profoundly Anti Catholic. In teaching history we emphasize the racism of the Klan, which is almost impossible to overstate, but we tend to be less forthcoming about it's religious bigotry, which was directed against Catholics and Jews with equal vitriol. And to be blatantly honest, organized Gay Activists are religious bigots.
We have seen this over the years, from the Lesbians who entered a Central American Cathedral and beat the faithful during Mass to more prosaic ventures. The "Rainbow Sash Movement" was all about entering Cathedrals wearing their rainbow sashes (which look suspiciously like a deacon's stole) and forcing their opinion that we should no longer believe sodomy to be a sin by occupying the forward pews and "shaming" the priests, deacons and extraordinary Eucharistic ministers to give them communion. We had the spectacle in 2010 of organized Sodomites planning to force their way into Mass and confront Cardinal George with the fact he will not say that unnatural sex and disordered attractions are OK--his objection was rooted in experience. The Human Rights Campaign, which is the largest of the GLBTQ activist organizations attempted to disrupt the Mass at a seminary by demanding Communion, and were outraged when Archbishop Nienstedt refused to give it to them. The message is clear, we, as Catholics, must change the moral content of our faith to match their ideas--they are trying to force us to change our beliefs to match their politics, and that is an attempt at religious repression, and religious bigotry in action.
In St Louis, a large group of Sodomites gathered before the historic Cathedral Basilica to jeer and cat call, to insult and attempt to intimidate the faithful into supporting their agenda. It didn't make much of a splash in the News. But can you imagine the outcry if a group of Caucasians gathered outside of a meting of the Urban League to do the same? A campaign of intimidation and ridicule is by it's very nature a manifestation of bigotry
Chesterton said sex would be the final heresy, and he's turning out to be right. And like any heresy, those who embrace it despise orthodoxy. This problem is widespread enough that Archbishop Nienstedt had to caution his clergy--actually flat tell them--not to embrace the political cause of sodomites in public, nor to voice any support for sodomitic unions . Many orthodox Catholics were pleased when he did this, and on a certain level so am I, but we shouldn't be, because an Archbishop shouldn't have to tell his priests not to support evil. But this sort of thing is widespread, and has even found it's way into the Scripture translation we use at Mass--the Epistle for last Sunday as proclaimed read "Avoid Immorality"--but in the original Greek and many other translations it reads "Flee Fornication". the Greek word, pornoia, cane also be read as describing any form of sexual license, deviance or activities that are immoral, to include sodomy. In English, it would most likely be best rendered by the phrase "flee sexual immorality". This is a clear Scriptural injunction, yet is downplayed by many, many priests, deacons and bishops.
This is turning into the biggest threat to Religious Freedom in our Nations history, to include it's colonial history. On the 13th of this month, a court ruled in New Jersey that a Christian Retreat House, affiliated with the United Methodist Church, had no right to refuse to rent it's facilities for Same Sex Unions. The Judge said that the Constitution "allows some intrusion into religious freedom to balance other important societal goals". Really, where does it say that? Can he quote to me where it says that? Or did he just attempt to make new law? And is gay marriage a societal goal for us? Does the majority of the electorate want it?
We Catholics, and to a certain extent, other Christian denominations are castigated for "child sex scandal", while at the same time we are castigated for not supporting groups which since 1972 have tried to get the laws on statutory rape changed to make sodomy between men and boys and women and girls legal, and viewed as normal and healthy. (And this ignores the statistics that between 1.5 an 3% of priests so actd, while the estimates for the population at large run between 10-20%--and mostly involves teens. I just don't understand this.) How long, I wonder, before it becomes the norm in schools that kids stroke one another's genitals? There is a program in Swtizerland that does just that.
How bad is this for us now? Well, the Twin Cities Daily Planet ran an article entitled "Conservative christian Parents Fight for Right to Discriminate Against LGBT Students at Anoka Hennipin". Inside the article it reveals that it wasn't just Christians, but Jews and Seculars as well, and the "discrimination" include demanding that students also be taught about the people who have left the Gay Life, and the VD rate among Gay men, and a desire to protect their children from the bullying that is on the rise against christian and other kids who think homosexuality is morally wrong or who find such practices abhorrent.
Chesterton had it so right--Sex is the Last Heresy, and I will say the deterioration of sexual morality is the end result of the cumulative effect of all heresies, capped by Modernism.
Cardinal George used some string language, no doubt, and was highly criticized forsaying we didn't want to go back to the days of the KKK. Well, that's correct, we don't. The second and third incarnations of the Klan were profoundly Anti Catholic. In teaching history we emphasize the racism of the Klan, which is almost impossible to overstate, but we tend to be less forthcoming about it's religious bigotry, which was directed against Catholics and Jews with equal vitriol. And to be blatantly honest, organized Gay Activists are religious bigots.
We have seen this over the years, from the Lesbians who entered a Central American Cathedral and beat the faithful during Mass to more prosaic ventures. The "Rainbow Sash Movement" was all about entering Cathedrals wearing their rainbow sashes (which look suspiciously like a deacon's stole) and forcing their opinion that we should no longer believe sodomy to be a sin by occupying the forward pews and "shaming" the priests, deacons and extraordinary Eucharistic ministers to give them communion. We had the spectacle in 2010 of organized Sodomites planning to force their way into Mass and confront Cardinal George with the fact he will not say that unnatural sex and disordered attractions are OK--his objection was rooted in experience. The Human Rights Campaign, which is the largest of the GLBTQ activist organizations attempted to disrupt the Mass at a seminary by demanding Communion, and were outraged when Archbishop Nienstedt refused to give it to them. The message is clear, we, as Catholics, must change the moral content of our faith to match their ideas--they are trying to force us to change our beliefs to match their politics, and that is an attempt at religious repression, and religious bigotry in action.
In St Louis, a large group of Sodomites gathered before the historic Cathedral Basilica to jeer and cat call, to insult and attempt to intimidate the faithful into supporting their agenda. It didn't make much of a splash in the News. But can you imagine the outcry if a group of Caucasians gathered outside of a meting of the Urban League to do the same? A campaign of intimidation and ridicule is by it's very nature a manifestation of bigotry
Chesterton said sex would be the final heresy, and he's turning out to be right. And like any heresy, those who embrace it despise orthodoxy. This problem is widespread enough that Archbishop Nienstedt had to caution his clergy--actually flat tell them--not to embrace the political cause of sodomites in public, nor to voice any support for sodomitic unions . Many orthodox Catholics were pleased when he did this, and on a certain level so am I, but we shouldn't be, because an Archbishop shouldn't have to tell his priests not to support evil. But this sort of thing is widespread, and has even found it's way into the Scripture translation we use at Mass--the Epistle for last Sunday as proclaimed read "Avoid Immorality"--but in the original Greek and many other translations it reads "Flee Fornication". the Greek word, pornoia, cane also be read as describing any form of sexual license, deviance or activities that are immoral, to include sodomy. In English, it would most likely be best rendered by the phrase "flee sexual immorality". This is a clear Scriptural injunction, yet is downplayed by many, many priests, deacons and bishops.
This is turning into the biggest threat to Religious Freedom in our Nations history, to include it's colonial history. On the 13th of this month, a court ruled in New Jersey that a Christian Retreat House, affiliated with the United Methodist Church, had no right to refuse to rent it's facilities for Same Sex Unions. The Judge said that the Constitution "allows some intrusion into religious freedom to balance other important societal goals". Really, where does it say that? Can he quote to me where it says that? Or did he just attempt to make new law? And is gay marriage a societal goal for us? Does the majority of the electorate want it?
We Catholics, and to a certain extent, other Christian denominations are castigated for "child sex scandal", while at the same time we are castigated for not supporting groups which since 1972 have tried to get the laws on statutory rape changed to make sodomy between men and boys and women and girls legal, and viewed as normal and healthy. (And this ignores the statistics that between 1.5 an 3% of priests so actd, while the estimates for the population at large run between 10-20%--and mostly involves teens. I just don't understand this.) How long, I wonder, before it becomes the norm in schools that kids stroke one another's genitals? There is a program in Swtizerland that does just that.
How bad is this for us now? Well, the Twin Cities Daily Planet ran an article entitled "Conservative christian Parents Fight for Right to Discriminate Against LGBT Students at Anoka Hennipin". Inside the article it reveals that it wasn't just Christians, but Jews and Seculars as well, and the "discrimination" include demanding that students also be taught about the people who have left the Gay Life, and the VD rate among Gay men, and a desire to protect their children from the bullying that is on the rise against christian and other kids who think homosexuality is morally wrong or who find such practices abhorrent.
Chesterton had it so right--Sex is the Last Heresy, and I will say the deterioration of sexual morality is the end result of the cumulative effect of all heresies, capped by Modernism.
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