A gay rights groups doesn’t like the new Confession App for helping people prepare to confess their sins. In fact, they’re furious over it. Now that I’m thinking about it, have you read anything about a gay rights group in the past decade where they weren’t furious? Even when they win, they’re furious that they didn’t win more or earlier. Shouldn’t a “furious gay group” be an oxymoron?
In this case it’s not Apps they’re furious about, it’s the sin. (But isn’t it always.)
The Guardian reports:
The launch of an iPhone app that guides Catholics through confession has prompted a furious response from gay rights groups, who accuse it of “promoting anti-gay spiritual abuse”.
“Confession: A Roman Catholic App”, which costs £1.19 from the Apple iTunes store, has shot to 26 in the download charts, behind Sims 3 and Resident Evil 4: Platinum….
Among the questions users are asked is: “Have I been guilty of any homosexual activity?”
Wayne Besen, executive director of Truth Wins Out, a group that campaigns on behalf of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered (LGBT) people, accused the app of “helping to create neurotic individuals who are ashamed of who they are”.
“This is cyber spiritual abuse that promotes backward ideas in a modern package,” said Besen. “Gay Catholics don’t need to confess, they need to come out of the closet and challenge anti-gay dogma. The false idea that being gay is something to be ashamed of has destroyed too many lives. This iPhone app is facilitating and furthering the harm.”
Do these folks understand that they don’t have to buy the App?
Remember that while making their big push for gay marriage they’d always say that nobody’s forcing straight people to marry a gay person so why do straight people care? Well, using that logic, nobody’s forcing gay people to go to Confession or to buy an App to prepare them for it.
But you see, they don’t even want you to be able to think it. They want the Catholic view to be driven from the mainstream by the force of their feigned fury. So they’re going to create a stink and see if they can get it taken off the market just like they did the Manhattan Declaration App that was supposedly anti-gay because it didn’t approve of gay marriage. It worked before for them and they’re going to keep on doing it until it doesn’t work anymore.
At some point they’re going to have to be stood up to. Why not make it now? Seriously, I know many Christians who think maybe it’s time for us to get furious. But I’d so much rather be gay. (I mean that in the old sense of the word.)
February 14, 2011 at 8:11 pm
Changing Catholic is about a oxymoron as furious gay groups. I have to laugh when they talking about changing doctrine, it's literally impossible
February 14, 2011 at 8:17 pm
Don't expect any reason from homosexual groups, period.
February 14, 2011 at 9:28 pm
Yawn
February 14, 2011 at 11:21 pm
They obviously don't know much about dogma if they think it can be challenged.
February 14, 2011 at 11:24 pm
They don't care to know. Sadly, even most "Catholics" don't care to know.
February 15, 2011 at 1:14 am
Dogma can't be changed. It must stay as it is. People can't question it. If they do they can't be "Catholic". If they don't like the sin then they should change religions. There are lots of other religions that don't view homosexuality as a sin.
February 15, 2011 at 1:16 am
If you are Catholic changing religions is a sin.
February 15, 2011 at 1:17 am
Sadly some many young people are listening more to Lady Gaga and MTV, then they are the Church. Our whole belief system is under attach by the gays. If they win in the courts there goes the Church.
February 15, 2011 at 1:19 am
There are all sorts of iPhone apps I find offensive. Welcome to the real world.
February 15, 2011 at 2:18 am
But if you're no longer Catholic than isn't no longer a sin. Poof the sin goes away. And you'll go to an all denominations/unitarian heaven instead the Catholic heaven.
February 15, 2011 at 3:44 am
You sure will! It's called hell.
February 15, 2011 at 6:09 am
@ Willing Catholic Martyr: LOL yes the catholic heaven is hell. There is no sex, drinking or Lady Gaga.
February 15, 2011 at 6:40 am
That's obviously not what I meant. All those who die as non-Catholics go to hell. Become Catholic.
February 15, 2011 at 10:38 am
Sweetie, You don't have to be Catholic to go to heaven. A lot of other religions offer a heaven option too.
February 15, 2011 at 2:44 pm
@ Willing Catholic Martyr:
Catechism of the Catholic Church Paragraphs 846-848:
"'Outside the Church there is no salvation'
How are we to understand this affirmation, often repeated by the Church Fathers? Re-formulated positively, it means that all salvation comes from Christ the Head through the Church which is his Body:
'Basing itself on Scripture and Tradition, the Council teaches that the Church, a pilgrim now on earth, is necessary for salvation: the one Christ is the mediator and the way of salvation; he is present to us in his body which is the Church. He himself explicitly asserted the necessity of faith and Baptism as through a door. Hence they could not be saved who, knowing that the Catholic Church was founded as necessary by God through Christ, would refuse either to enter it or to remain in it.' (from Lumen Gentium 14)
This affirmation is not aimed as those who , through no fault of their own, do not know Christ and his Church:
'Those who, through no fault of their own, do not know the Gospel of Christ or his Church, but who nevertheless seek God with a sincere heart, and, moved by grace, try in their actions to do his will as they know it through the dictates of their conscience – those too may achieve eternal salvation' (from Lumen Gentium 16)
'Although in ways known to himself God can lead those who, through no fault of their own, are ignorant of the Gospel, to that faith without which it is impossible to please him, the Church still has the obligation and also the sacred right to evangelize all men.' (Ad gentes 7)"
To say that all who die as non-Catholics necessarily go to hell is to say something that is contrary to the explicit teaching of the Church. No one but God knows the final disposition of any soul, and the Church entrusts to His mercy all men and women who die.
February 15, 2011 at 2:48 pm
Willing Catholic Martyr:
The Catholic catechism does NOT teach that about non-Catholic Christians and you know it. Either you're confused or a rad-trad.
February 15, 2011 at 3:41 pm
"Rad-trad" haha. I guess that's your word for believing as Catholics have always believed.
Perhaps you have never heard of the Athanasian Creed? The Council of Florence? Unam Sanctam? The Council of Trent? etc…
http://willingcatholicmartyr.blogspot.com/2011/02/conversation-with-new-yorker.html
February 15, 2011 at 4:31 pm
truly the truth cannot be chenged because someone felt annoyed by it. it remain the truth. It is sinful to engage in any homosexual act and nomatter how people demonstrate it will never be right
February 16, 2011 at 1:58 am
Yes, if you follow the Catholic Religion than stuff like homosexuality is a sin, and will always be a sin. The only ways it not a sin is not to follow the Church's dogma. If homosexuals don't believe in the dogma, then they aren't sinning according to their beliefs. More and more young people seem to be following their own beliefs today. Unfortunately.
February 21, 2011 at 7:10 am
Unfortunately.