She was joined by about 150 other devotees at
her central London church, a multitude of nationalities coming together to
celebrate a cherished festival. So it was a shame that the magic of the moment
was blown apart by a blast of bigotry from the pulpit. Her priest, like many
others in Britain, used his sermon on this sacred day to rant about the looming
prospect of gay and lesbian people being allowed the same right as anyone else
to marry. Instead of encouraging this ultimate act of love, he fulminated about
its deep offensiveness. Photo
The diatribe perplexed most people in the pews.
For Ruth, it felt more personal. She is Catholic and gay, a reminder that both
are the broadest of churches. She is also director of public affairs at the
pressure group Stonewall, so deeply embroiled in the struggle for equal rights.
“For me, God is love,” she says. “So why do I have to justify my very right to
exist?” She was not alone in having to endure priests using their sermons to
spout prejudice. For this was the year an insecure Church, confronted by an
increasingly secular country, celebrated Christmas by lashing out in ways that
only served to demonstrate its own demons and display its impotence.
One befuddled bishop conjured up the spirit of
Hitler by comparing the Coalition’s intention to legalise gay marriage to the
ideology of fascism. In so doing, he exposed the most basic rule of debate:
when you resort to bringing in the Nazis, you have obviously lost the argument…
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Ian Birrell is a former speechwriter for
David Cameron
Gay Marriage
- Benedict XVI’s Christmas Address - Not preaching social justice - same-sex
marriage in civil law | Construct "human nature" just out-dated? |
Each human person is so unique that there are virtually as many human natures
as there are human persons? - By Professor Thomas Farrell - 12/21/12
Pope Benedict XVI is not preaching social justice regarding same-sex
marriage in civil law - 12/21/12 - Professor Thomas Farrell
Duluth, Minnesota (OpEdNews)
December 21, 2012: Is there one human nature that male humans and female human
have by virtue of being human? Or do male humans have a male human nature, but
female humans have a female human nature? Or is the conceptual construct
"human nature" just out-dated -- and there is no such thing as human
nature? Or is it the case that each human person is so unique that there are
virtually as many human natures as there are human persons?
I know, I know, these questions sound abstract. But consider the claim
that "all men are created equal." Does this claim mean that all male
human persons are created equal to one another because they all have a male
human nature? But this understanding of the claim would exclude female human
persons, presumably because they do not have a male human nature. Thus the
claim that "all men are created equal" should be understood to mean
that all human persons have a human nature, which is the basis for human
equality…
Now, many Americans today see the
issue of same-sex marriage as a social justice issue. If men and women both
have a human nature, why should it make any difference in civil law if marriage
is operationally defined as being between one man and one woman, or as being between
one man and another man, or as being between one woman and another woman?...
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About: Professor Thomas Farrell
Thomas J.
Farrell
Professor
Emeritus
Department
of Writing Studies
College of
Liberal Arts
University of Minnesota Duluth
Gay Marriage
– Benedict XVI Antigay Christmas Statements – DISMISSES SCIENCE – Renders -
NATURAL LAW - "NONSENSE UPON STILTS" --- Kids Are Being Hurt!!! –
12/27/12
The Pope's
Christmas Condemnation of Transsexuals – 12/23/08
Pontiff equates
GENDER THEORIES with threat to rainforests – 12/23/08
AUSCHWITZ --
CHRISTMAS 2008 -- A flashback far more severe than in --- BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN –
December 26, 2008 – by Fr. Marty Kurylowicz
Benedict XVI - Vatican out of step
on gay rights, says Tony Blair – 4/4/09
Last year, Pope Benedict XVI sparked fury in the gay community when he suggested
that homosexuality was as big a threat to humankind as the destruction of the
rainforests.
Blair, who converted to Catholicism after leaving
Downing Street in 2007, said that views on homosexuality had to keep
"evolving".
"There is a huge generational difference
here. There's probably that same fear amongst religious leaders that if you
concede ground on [homosexuality], because attitudes and thinking evolve over
time, where does that end? You'd start having to rethink many, many
things."
He added: "If you went and asked the
[ordinary Catholic] congregation, I think you'd find that their faith is not to
be found in those types of entrenched attitudes." Photo
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Gay Marriage
ILLINOIS – President OBAMA - believes in treating EVERYONE fairly and equally,
with dignity and respect - …it's wrong to prevent couples who are in LOVING,
committed relationships, and want to marry, from doing so. | FREEDOM - This is
the United States of America – 12/30/12
"I Hate
You Then I Love You" … Gay? - J. EDGAR HOOVER and BENEDICT XVI -
Homophobic Men - a "tragic story...about HOW DANGEROUS SEXUAL REPRESSION
IS." 12/09/12
J.K. Rowling – “The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of Imagination”
Excerpt:
…One of the greatest formative experiences of my life preceded Harry Potter, though it informed much of what I subsequently wrote in those books. This revelation came in the form of one of my earliest day jobs. Though I was sloping off to write stories during my lunch hours, I paid the rent in my early 20s by working at the African research department at Amnesty International’s headquarters in London.
There in my little office I read hastily scribbled letters smuggled out of totalitarian regimes by men and women who were risking imprisonment to inform the outside world of what was happening to them. I saw photographs of those who had disappeared without trace, sent to Amnesty by their desperate families and friends. I read the testimony of torture victims and saw pictures of their injuries. I opened handwritten, eye-witness accounts of summary trials and executions, of kidnappings and rapes…
…Every day, I saw more evidence about the evils humankind will inflict on their fellow humans, to gain or maintain power. I began to have nightmares, literal nightmares, about some of the things I saw, heard, and read…
…Unlike any other creature on this planet, humans can learn and understand, without having experienced. They can think themselves into other people’s places…
And many prefer not to exercise their imaginations at all. They choose to remain comfortably within the bounds of their own experience, never troubling to wonder how it would feel to have been born other than they are. They can refuse to hear screams or to peer inside cages; they can close their minds and hearts to any suffering that does not touch them personally; they can refuse to know.
…I think the wilfully unimaginative see more monsters. They are often more afraid.
What is more, those who choose not to empathise enable real monsters. For without ever committing an act of outright evil ourselves, we collude with it, through our own apathy…
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Luke 16:23-26
The Rich Man and Lazarus
There was a rich man who was dressed in purple and fine linen
and lived in luxury every day. At his gate was laid a beggar named Lazarus,
covered with sores and longing to eat what fell from the rich man's table. Even
the dogs came and licked his sores.
The time came when the beggar died and the angels carried him
to Abraham's side. The rich man also died and was buried. In hell, where he was
in torment, he looked up and saw Abraham far away, with Lazarus by his side. So
he called to him, 'Father Abraham, have pity on me and send Lazarus to dip the
tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, because I am in agony in this
fire.' Photo
But Abraham replied, 'Son, remember that in your lifetime you
received your good things, while Lazarus received bad things, but now he is
comforted here and you are in agony. And besides all this, between us and you a
great chasm has been fixed, so that those who want to go from here to you
cannot, nor can anyone cross over from there to us.'
He answered, 'Then I beg you, father, send Lazarus to my
father's house, for I have five brothers. Let him warn them, so that they will
not also come to this place of torment.'
Abraham replied, 'They have Moses and the Prophets; let them
listen to them.'
'No, father Abraham,' he said, 'but if someone from the dead
goes to them, they will repent.'
He said to him, 'If they do not listen to Moses and the
Prophets, they will not be convinced even if someone rises from the dead.'
Gay Marriage & Benedict XVI Mirroring – “Hitler Youth” supporting Nazis Brutal RE-EDUCATION of Homosexuals | 1997 Orders RE-EDUCATION for Gay Priest, Fr. Marty Kurylowicz’s Public “Coming Out” for Protection of Gay Children |---No USA Civil Laws to Protect Gay Catholic Priest or Children – 9/15/12
PRESIDENT OBAMA‘S letter – August 2012 - Appreciate Perspective on Gay (LGBT) Rights of Fr. Marty Steven Kurylowicz - LGBT Rights Begins with CHILDREN | VATICAN CRACKDOWN – August 2012 - Gay Catholic Priest - Fr. Marty Kurylowicz “Coming Out” 1997 for “Protection of CHILDREN from Antigay Social & Religious Norms - 10/10/12
Developmental Narratives Growing Up Gay - Overview - Fr. Marty Kurylowicz - November 16, 2008
Perpetuation of Generational Violence On Children -- Who Grow Up to Be Gay - Kids Are Being Hurt!!! – December 19, 2008
Homosexuality: Coming out of the confusion, by Sidney H. Phillips, M.D. – December 8, 2008
Ecclesiastes 1:5 (New International Version)
5 The sun rises and the sun sets, and hurries back to where it rises.
Ecclesiastes 1:5 (New American Standard Bible)
5 Also, the sun rises and the sun sets; And hastening to its place it rises there again.
1 Chronicles 16:30 (New International Version)
30 Tremble before him, all the earth!
The world is firmly established; it cannot be moved.
1 Chronicles 16:30 (New American Standard Bible)
30 Tremble before Him, all the earth; Indeed, the world is firmly established, it will not be moved.
Psalm 93:1 (New International Version)
1 The LORD reigns, he is robed in majesty;
the LORD is robed in majesty
and is armed with strength. The world is firmly established; it cannot be moved.
Psalm 93:1 (New American Standard Bible)
1 The LORD reigns, He is clothed with majesty; The LORD has clothed and girded Himself with strength; Indeed, the world is firmly established, it will not be moved.
Psalm 96:10 (New International Version)
10 Say among the nations, "The LORD reigns."
The world is firmly established, it cannot be moved;
he will judge the peoples with equity.
Psalm 96:10 (New American Standard Bible)
10 Say among the nations, "The LORD reigns; Indeed, the world is firmly established, it will not be moved; He will judge the peoples with equity."
Psalm 104:5 (New International Version)
5 He set the earth on its foundations; it can never be moved.
Psalm 104:5 (New American Standard Bible)
5 He established the earth upon its foundations, So that it will not totter forever and ever.
Injustice anywhere is a
threat to
Justice everywhere
Martin Luther King
The Nobel Peace Prize 1964
Martin Luther King Jr.
What you cannot do is accept injustice.
From Hitler – or anyone.
You must make the injustice visible
– be prepared to die like a
soldier to do so.
Mahatma Gandhi
Kids Are Being Hurt!!!
“Someday, maybe, there will exist a well-informed, well considered and yet fervent public conviction that the most deadly of all possible sins is the mutilation of a child’s spirit.”
…whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to stumble, it would be better for him to have a heavy millstone hung around his neck, and to be drowned in the depth of the sea. Matthew 18:6
Important note: No disrespect meant to Pope Benedict XVI or the hierarchy, the one and only concern is the safety and well-being of children.
Kids Are Being Hurt!!!
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