Sexuality
Why they want to indoctrinate your kids
They see her six-year-old’s innocence, as they see all innocence, as a rebuke to their depravity. Hating that innocence, which must pain them whenever they encounter it, they want to extinguish it as soon and as thoroughly as possible. That’s why they want into the first grade classroom.
- Diogenes on the moral nihilism of sex educators and AIDS activists.
Bottom line: they want to turn love and marriage into a disease-riddled, emotionally empty, mechanical exercise of selfishness and physical activity. Who values sex more? Those who want to cherish it in the protected context of marriage and love and family or those who want to debase it and strip it of mystery and higher purpose?
But we’re the ones who are sexually repressed.
Using sex to sell the charity car wash
Since when has “pimping out” your kids become acceptable behavior?
On the main road into Salem, which is both Route 114 and North Street, there is a large car wash. As you might expect on Sunday mornings, it’s not too busy so the owners generously allow charitable groups—sports teams, youth groups, and so on—to conduct charity car washes. The kids do all the labor and they get a sizable cut of the proceeds.
Now, in order to bring in the customers at this slow time (and let’s just skip for now the discussion about more and more events taking up what was once the sacred Sunday morning church time), some of the kids stand out on the street with signs and gesticulate and plead with passing motorists to pull in.
It all sounds so innocent and wholesome so far, doesn’t it? It would except that nearly invariably the kids chosen for the enticement duty are teenage girls in bathing suits or halter tops and shorts. Madison Avenue has taught them well: Sex sells.
What really bugs me are the parents, especially the dads. Are fathers okay with this these days? I would never, ever allow my daughter to be used as some kind of sexual advertising gimmick for anything, charity or no.
Yet you see folks who are apparently okay with it.
As a society we’ve hypersexualized our children, yet we’re shocked that the moral fabric is decaying. We allow them to be used in a sexual manner to peddle a product, yet we’re surprised when perverts prey on them.
Here’s my message to all you dads out there: Don’t let your kids be used this way. (And this isn’t limited to girls either; your sons should not be used in this manner either.)
Children do not exist for the gratification of adults, in any way, shape, or form. Protect your kids from it.
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New Surgeon-General attacked for opinion on homosexuality
President Bush has nominated a new Surgeon-General and, as usual, liberals wants his scalp because he doesn’t embrace homosexuality as emblematic of all this is good and true in the world.
Dr. James Holsinger wrote in a paper in 1991 that homosexuality is unhealthy and unnatural. Well, when you get into the physical mechanics of it, um yeah, putting that, um, there is not healthy. In addition, two men or two women trying to have sex is unnatural since in fact sex is a procreative act and, by definition, sex between two men or two women is not procreative.
Ah, but for the sheer temerity of once stating what is blindingly obvious, Holsinger is to be tarred and feathered. Oh, and he is to be ridiculed because (snicker, snicker), he used an analogy that compared male and female genitalia to pipe fittings. Geez, people, grow up. It’s an analogy.
Holsinger, 68, presented “The Pathophysiology of Male Homosexuality” in January 1991 to a United Methodist Church’s committee to study homosexuality. (Read the paper here.) The church was then considering changing its view that homosexuality violates Christian teaching, though it ultimately did not do so. Relying on footnotes from mainstream medical publications, Holsinger argued that homosexuality isn’t natural or healthy.
Meanwhile, the pundits are telling Bush that he should pull the nomination: “A confirmation fight is exactly what the administration does not need,” said Republican turncoat David Gergen. Actually, it is exactly what the administration needs. What Bush does not need is to appear to be distancing himself even further from his political base of conservatives, not after everything he’s done to spite conservative principles. And canning another major nominee because of his conservative views on homosexuality would do exactly that.
Let's not forget Jocelyn Elders
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Dignity’s true colors
If anyone was still under the misapprehension that Dignity, the homosexual-activist Catholic group, was in fact Catholic, the fact that they have a pretend-ordained woman set to preside over their Gay Pride “Mass” should dispel that notion.
Dignity/NY, the LGBT Catholic group, will have a woman preside over its Gay Pride Mass for the first time on June 23 at 7:30 p.m. at the Judson Memorial Church on Washington Square South. She is the Reverend Victoria Rue, a Roman Catholic womanpriest who was ordained by three Roman Catholic womenbishops in 2005.
Here’s hoping that the “menbishops” of the Church in the US once and for all order all of their diocesan ministries to homosexuals to sever all ties with Dignity, because it is a heretical group.
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You can’t “keep your eyes on Christ” by ignoring His Church
Here’s an example of the woolly thinking evident among so many Massachusetts Catholics who justify their dissent from God’s revealed truth as being somehow consonant with God’s love. In this case, it’s a contributor to the liberal political blog Blue Mass Group who says he’s converted from being against the legal fiction of same-sex marriage to being in favor of it, despite his Catholic faith, because his mother told him so. She said:
“What does the church care what they do? Gays can take it up with God when they die. Otherwise, let them do what they want if it doesn’t hurt you. Just keep your eyes on Christ.”
The Church cares what they do because the Church loves all of her children as a Mother and when you’re standing before God at your judgment is too late to realize that disregarding the Church’s warnings all these years was the path to damnation. You may as well say, “What does your mother care what you do if you want to take LSD and drop acid? You can take it up with the doctor in the emergency room when you’re overdosing and on death’s doorstep. Otherwise, she should let you do what you want if it isn’t hurting anyone else. Just keep your eyes on whatever makes you happy.”
By saying “keep your eyes on Christ” while contradicting the Church’s teaching shows a seriously flawed understanding of what it means to be a Catholic and the nature of the Church.
Our canon law experts would be interested in the blundering attempts to apply canon law and the Catechism to the matter. A Catholic untrained in canon law who tries to interpret the law for himself may have a fool for a client. Most importantly, it may have eternal consequences.
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San Fran Catholic Charities supporting moral violence to children
Last year, when the Vatican issued a definitive statement that Catholic agencies were not to facilitate adoption by same-sex couples, Catholic Charities of San Francisco crafted a “compromise” that only served to compromise Catholic values and ignore the substance of the Vatican directive.
What they did was put their adoption staff and money spent on them under the umbrella of a group called Family Builders that not only facilitates adoptions by same-sex couples, but aggressively seeks them out for adoptions.
This is direct material cooperation with evil. Of course, this is not a surprise since the SF Catholic Charities executive director has been an apologist for such homosexual arrangements and is apparently dissenting from the Church’s teachings on the subject.
Now we’re getting a clearer understanding of just what kind of organization the Archdiocese of San Francisco is working with in Family Builders.
Local adoption and foster care agency Family Builders by Adoption unveiled an edgy new marketing campaign targeting LGBT people Monday, May 21 that puts a new twist on language often used by conservatives
The ads feature same-sex couples and their adopted children standing behind the slogans, “Family Planning” and “Intelligent Design.” Underneath the slogans are the phrases, “Our family was no accident – we planned for it,” and “Before we started our family we considered all the options.” The city of San Francisco paid for a portion of the ad campaign, as part of a $100,000 contract.
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Supervisor Bevan Dufty spoke in support of the campaign at a news conference held Monday at the LGBT Community Center. The new interpretation of traditional right-wing phrases is expected to draw heat from conservative groups. “The religious right … only seems to care about how a child gets here, and once they’re here, they’re somebody else’s problem,” Dufty said.
Mutual love: Family Builders and CC
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DePaul University to host “queer” conference
LifeSite News is reminding us that DePaul University in Chicago, a Catholic school, is hosting a large homosexual activist conference in October. I originally wrote about this last November and have some details of what they plan on discussing.
The conference, whose full title is the Conference of Scholars and Student Affairs Personnel Involved in “LGBTQ” (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered and queer) issues on Catholic Campuses, is being organized through the DePaul Women’s and Gender Studies department. It is scheduled for October 19-20, 2007 and is calling for submissions for papers and workshops.
The first Out There conference was held at Jesuit-run Santa Clara University in 2005 in California and attracted 150 students and faculty from 40 different schools, including the Universities of Georgetown, Loyola Marymount, Gonzaga, Fordham, DePaul, La Salle, Marquette and Emory, as well as Boston College, and College of the Holy Cross. The Santa Clara conference was praised by gay activists as opening a new door between the homosexual activist community and the world of Catholic education.
Of course, what do you expect from a Catholic college that now offers a minor in gay studies?
Oh, and what do all those listed colleges in the quote above have in common besides being putatively Catholic schools. Hmmm, let me think. (Actually, La Salle is not like the other Catholic schools in one important respect and Emory is not Catholic at all, but was founded by the Methodists. But the rest have a commonality.)
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Gays don’t want marriage after all
So why are we going through all this trouble anyway? According to state statistics, gays and lesbians just don’t want to get married. While there was a rush of marriage licenses in the seven months of 2004 that they were being issued to same-sex couples—6,121 in all—the numbers have dropped precipitously since then.
In 2005, only 2,060 received licenses; in 2006, just 1,427; and this year until the end of April, only 87. Maybe they all want to be June brides.
But the reality is that there was a small minority of homosexuals—themselves a tiny minority of the population—who even wanted to marry. Ask any observer of the homosexual scene and they’ll tell you that monogamy is the exception, not the rule, which is why everyone always makes a big deal about the very few gay couples who’ve been together for 10 and 20 years.
Also interesting to note that 64 percent of the same-sex marriages were lesbians. I guess some stereotypes remain true. It’s a fact that the man-woman marriage is a civilizing influence on society because it’s the woman’s impulse to marry and settle down that keeps us from being free-wheeling barbarians.
So what we have here is a fundamental re-configuring of the very basic foundations of society and civilization, creating a fiction known as same-sex marriage, for a group of people who—by and large—don’t want to be married. Why?
Perhaps, apart from the small number who sought the licenses, the real goal has more to do with undermining those structures of society that they resent. After all, it’s a fairly common term of derision for homosexuals and lesbians to call mothers and fathers “breeders”, as if we’re no better than animals.
It’s the same impulse that bring radical homosexuals out to protest against pro-lifers at abortion clinics. You’d think that it would be a non-issue for them—not ever having children after all—but there they are. Why? the same reason you’ll find the Socialists and Communists and Spartacists. Again, to attack the very foundations of society, to disrupt them and create an atmosphere free of any of the old traditional mores and “patriarchal” forms of civilization.
Civil unions will never be enough
Those who seek compromise on the gay marriage issue often advocate “civil unions” as an alternative that they think would be palatable to both sides. From my point of view civil unions are just marriage by another name, the creation of a legal institution with all the legal rights and benefits of marriage.
On the other side, most homosexuals and lesbians don’t want civil unions either, as seen in a case before Connecticut’s supreme court.
After 16 years together, Stephen Davis and Jeffrey Busch made their relationship official last spring under Connecticut’s two-year-old civil union law. They invited no guests and did not even kiss at the ceremony, they said, because the milestone seemed such a pale imitation of marriage.
“It felt like a learner’s permit instead of a driver’s license,” said Busch in an interview yesterday after a lawyer argued on the couple’s behalf in a hearing before the Connecticut Supreme Court.
Ben Klein, the attorney representing eight same-sex couples who are seeking the right to marry, argued that the state’s civil union law is unconstitutional because it established a separate and therefore inherently unequal institution for a minority group.
“Jeff Busch doesn’t want his young son Eli to have to explain to his friends that what his parents have is ‘almost’ a marriage,” said Klein, senior attorney for Boston-based Gay & Lesbian Advocates and Defenders.
As marriage defenders have been saying all along, civil union and domestic partnership compromises do nothing but delay the inevitable and give traction to those who want to strip marriage of its meaning. Homosexual activists will not be satisfied by civil unions but will use the leverage created by its existence to continue pushing the envelope.
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Mass. AG says amendment, if passed, not constitutional
I have to wonder whether Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley understands the constitutional form of government or have all the liberal politicians in this state decided that the work of transforming society to their utopian vision is too important to trust to the hoi polloi?
Coakley said this weekend that if a constitutional amendment to protect the definition of marriage is passed she lead efforts to have it declared unconstitutional.
“I think we can easily anticipate that if the proposed amendment was successful, there would be protracted, hard-fought litigation about the constitutionality of such a provision,” she said in a speech at the annual dinner of the Massachusetts Lesbian & Gay Bar Association. “If that battle is necessary, you have my support.”
Now correct me if I’m wrong, but I always thought that a constitutional amendment, if enacted according to the provisions laid out in the constitution, is de facto constitutional since it is the constitution. That would be like declaring the First Amendment unconstitutional.
This is either naked political corruption by a politician who is promising to blatantly defy the will of the people and the rule of law or she’s simply so incompetent as to not know that a constitutional amendment is, by its nature, constitutional.
Perhaps Coakley plans to challenge the process by which the amendment is passed, which is also strange since it’s not passed yet. If she knows of funny business in the process so far, why hasn’t she brought a legal challenge? Or maybe she’s just anticipating finding a dishonest and politically convenient pretext on which to bring a challenge later.
Coakley is making a transparent political play to elevate her own profile and pander to a small minority of well-connected and deep-pocketed liberal elites. (Also keep in mind that the attorney general of Massachusetts is an elected, not appointed, constitutional officer.)
Boston College Law prof supports Coakley
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Theology of the Body: wrapup
We’re home from the seminar and Isabella is being put to bed. She was very good today, better than even we had hoped. She was pretty quiet and self-contained, as much as a toddling 1-year-old can be.
Christopher West and a number of other folks said they felt like this was something special today. This wasn’t just another speaker brought in to talk and then move on. This is the start of a broad-based movement in the Archdiocese of Boston, not least because so many different ministries had a hand in bringing West here, not just archdiocesan ministries, but independent apostolates too.
Plus there were many priests and several bishops at the special day for priests yesterday, including Cardinal O’Malley who was said to have been greatly moved by what he heard and desirous to hear more of it and spread.
So much of what’s wrong in our society, but especially in Boston, is a result of a flawed understanding of our nature as embodied spiritual persons, a misunderstanding that stems not just from the Sixties and the sexual revolution, but whose roots are much deeper, going back to the repression of Jansenism and Puritanism and Victorianism. It’s no coincidence the place where the Scandal exploded worst is also the place where same-sex marriage is being pushed and abortion is so entrenched and a contraceptive mentality prevails and sexual libertinism is peddled enthusiastically to our youth. These are not unrelated.
We will begin to recover from the effects of that when we begin the process of the redemption of the body that Pope John Paul talked about in the theology of the body and Pope Benedict is continuing in his encyclical Deus Caritas and his new book on Jesus.
West said, on the spur of the moment, that he is making a commitment to the Archdiocese of Boston to be available for whatever we need him to do because he really feels like the Holy Spirit wants to the use the archdiocese as a beacon of light for the Church and the whole world, to bring this theology out into the world.
I hope the archdiocese takes him up on it. We need to counter the poison being peddled out there with antidote that brings a real cure.
I look forward to seeing some concrete steps being taken in the near future. Perhaps a major conference on theology of the body. Maybe widespread theology of the body study groups in parishes. Maybe monthly talks throughout the archdiocese to spread the message. I hope so. I pray that it is so.
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Liveblogging: Theology of the Body, Part IV
Talk 4: Sacrament of Marriage & the Language of Sexual Love
Ephesians 5:21,24-25
We are called to submit or be subject to one another, not just wife to husband.
After the fall, God says the fruit of the original sin is that the wife’s urges will be to her husband and he will dominate her. St. Paul is calling us back to the original meaning of marriage.
“So therefore that ‘reverence for Christ’ and ‘respect’ of which [St. Paul] speaks, is none other than a spiritually mature form of that mutual attraction: man’s attraction to femininity and woman’s attraction to masculinity.” (JP2)
Mary is the ark of the New Covenant and all woman are images of that ark of the new covenant. What happened to ancient Israelites who touched the ark without respect? They died. What happens to us who touch the ark of the new covenant without respect, who dominate and manipulate women? We die and sometimes we take the woman with us.
St. Paul is not justifying male domination.
As the Church submits to Christ, wives should submit to husbands. Does the Church submit to tyranny? Christ submitted himself to tyranny in the Passion to show otherwise.
Husbands love their wives like Christ loved the Church. Wives, allow your husbands to serve you.
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Liveblogging: Theology of the Body, Part III
Third Talk: The Resurrection of the Body & the Heavenly Marriage
First we talked about our origin, now we discuss our destiny.
In the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage. Marriage on earth (the marriage of Adam and Eve) is only a sign to point us to the Marriage of the Lamb in heaven. The sacrament gives way to reality.
Marriage is a signpost to heaven. It would be foolish to pull over and cling to the road sign that says “Boston, 50 miles” and say “I’m there.” We venerate marriage and sexual union, but we don’t worship. Our culture worships sex, turns the icon into an idol, the signpost into the destination.
All our confusion is the human desire for heaven gone berserk.
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Liveblogging: Theology of the Body, Part II
Second talk is titled: The Creation and Redemption of Man and Woman.
To begin, Christ points us back to the beginning. Christ’s miracle at Cana points us back to Adam & Eve. In the beginning Adam and Eve were drunk on the wine of love of God. In the Song of Songs, the singer wants to take his beloved into the wine cellar to get her drunk on the wine of love. On Pentecost, the disciples were drunk on divine love but looked to the people like they were drunk on wine.
So in the Garden of Eden, Adam & Even “ran out of wine”, they ran out of divine love. Eros was cut off from Agape and all that’s left is lust, self-seeking desire. So Moses allowed divorce because of the hardness of heart, but from the beginning it was not so. (Matt 19:8). Christ came into the world to restore the “wine” of divine love.
Adam & Eve are “the model … for all men and women who, in any period, are united so intimately as to be ‘one flesh.’” (John Paul II)
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Liveblogging: Theology of the Body seminar with Christopher West, Part I
Today I am liveblogging from a seminar on the Theology of the Body by Christopher West at the Marian Community Center in Medway, Mass. It’s a day-long series of talks sponsored by the Archdiocese of Boston and given impetus by Cardinal Sean O’Malley. More than 60 priests and bishops of the archdiocese heard him speak yesterday and Cardinal O’Malley said that this is exactly what we need in this archdiocese. Seventeen ministries of the archdiocese and independent ones are organizing future activities related to the Theology of the Body.
This will be a kind of stream-of-consciousness blogging so bear that in mind as we go. Melanie and Isabella are here too so I may have to get up and chase Bella down. (At the end of the first talk: She’s doing very well, not disruptive at all.)
The talks are being held in the center’s chapel, a beautiful open and airy space.
A lot of people say that they are being exposed to the Theology of the Body for the first time today. There’s about a couple hundred people attending.
This is an introduction to the theology, which would take years to study, not a day.
Crises in the Church are nothing new, and when such crises come, the Holy Spirit raises up a a response in the CHurch. In our day, the crisis is one of human sexuality and nearly all societal problems trace back to sexuality.
Begin with prayer because this is not just about the intellect. It is meant to be transformational.
First talk: The Theology of the body was a biblical reflection on the meaning of our human embodiment, particularly the meaning of being created male and female. It’s not just about sex, but about the ultimate meaning of life.
