Cardinal Francis George compared the gay pride movement to the KKK in terms of their anti-Catholic hatred and intolerance. This came up because the Gay Pride parade was threatening to interfere with Sunday services at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church. He said that mirrored protest against Catholicism by the KKK.
He has since apologized. But I’ve got to wonder, didn’t he have a point? Haven’t many in the gay rights movement demonized and antagonized Christians?
Here’s a few headlines and pics to answer the question:
‘Jesus is a homo’ Homosexuals Disrupt Church Service – Catholic.org
Homosexual Rainbow Sash Movement Threatens to Disrupt Pentecost Mass, Confront Cardinal GeorgeCatholic.org.
Lifesitenews.com reported:
A confrontation between homosexual activists and high-ranking Catholic clergy was staged on Palm Sunday at London’s Westminster Cathedral. Homosexual activists from what media are calling a “gay human rights group”, “OutRage!” protested in front of the primatial church of English Catholics and disrupted the annual Palm Sunday procession. Activists were shouting and waving placards which read, “Vatican blocks gay human rights at UN”, “Catholics! Stop crucifying queers!”, and “Gays are not ‘intrinsically disordered’ – Shame on Catholic Catechism!”.
Headline: “Homosexual Activists Disrupt Mass; Refused Communion”
Homosexual protestors disrupt Catholic Mass in St. Louis, MO- AIP News
Gay Service Disruption and Priest Sued over Communion Refusal – Intolerance Against Christians
Drag “sisters” receive the Eucharist from archbishop – CNA
When it comes to violence there’s no comparison between the KKK and the gay rights movement. But as far as hatred and intolerance, for me, the gay rights movement mirrors the hatred and intolerance of the KKK, except instead of wearing hoods, they wear makeup.
January 17, 2012 at 7:13 pm
Steve, that book has been widely discredited and the author has been debunked as a historical revisionist. Accordingly, his "Abiding Truth" ministries is now listed as an offical SPLC hate group. Please update your knowledge.
January 17, 2012 at 7:20 pm
SPLC is an anti-Christian organization. They have lost all credibility over the past decade.
January 17, 2012 at 7:42 pm
Anon, being discredited by the SPLC is almost a badge of honor. It's an extremely anti-Christian group that's pro-sodomy rights. That's why it listed Abiding Truth as a hate group, because it dare to tell the sodomites that they're practising a lifestyle that will send them to hell.
January 17, 2012 at 9:50 pm
"People with same-sex attraction are just as capable to live a celibate and pure life by the grace of God."
This has absolutely nothing to do with the Vatican directives. A same-sex attraction makes the seminary a completely different experience for men. It turns from a group of brothers into a pool of possible sexual partners.
Let's be clear. People aren't fools about gays in the seminary anymore. Gays enter the seminary to cruise and have perfect cover for their lack of interest in women. They instantly rise from social outcasts to respected, powerful members of a powerful religion. You go from a rather suspect character in your family to someone who adored without question. Sophisticated beings that we are, we even tell elaborate lies to ourselves about the real reasons we pursue careers in the Church.
I have been a witness to this behavior at a major American seminary, and witness to the abuse that seminarians perpetrated upon one another, some so bold as to grab men's privates in their beds as they were sleeping. Sexual attraction RUINS collegiality among a group of men in just the same way it does in the military. The potential for sexual hook ups is real, and is a constant temptation. Why on earth would we want to subject gay men to that sort of pressure? Because we deny human nature in order that our own utopian dreams might be realized. Precisely because these dreams do not respect nature is the reason they are doomed, always, to fail.
The Vatican is very wise to institute these rules, although they are habitually disregarded.
January 17, 2012 at 11:53 pm
POINT 1: You have offered no support for the bald statement that SPLC is an an anti-Christian organization.
POINT 2: The book has been discredited separate and apart from SPLC.
January 17, 2012 at 11:58 pm
SPLC sued the YMCA for making black kids swim in a different pool. That doesn't make them anti-Christian.
January 18, 2012 at 1:10 am
from Bill Foley
The Vatican document cited by a commenter has the following paragraph: "Different, however, would be the case in which one were dealing with homosexual tendencies that were only the expression of a transitory problem — for example, that of an adolescence not yet superseded. Nevertheless, such tendencies must be clearly overcome at least three years before ordination to the diaconate."
The document is crystal clear; one cannot have homosexual tendencies (the more correct terminology is Same-Sex Attraction Disorder) and be ordained.
May I suggest a natural argument vs same-sex acts and so-called “marriage” between two persons of the same sex.
The basis is THE PARTS DO NOT FIT.
This applies to the psychological, emotional, and spiritual aspects—three areas in which a man and a woman do fit.
The other facet is the physical dimension. The sexual/generative parts of the male and female bodies do fit, THEY ARE MEANT FOR EACH OTHER LIKE A LOCK AND A KEY, and this fit is IN ACCORD WITH NATURE. This natural fit also follows a natural purpose, namely, the generation of a human life. The sexual/generative parts of two males or of two females DO NOT FIT and do not fulfill the natural purpose of generating human life.
January 18, 2012 at 2:41 am
Simply by painting pro-Christian organizations as "bigoted" makes the SPLC irrelevant. They have lost all credibility.
As for you, you have no credibility simply by posting as "anonymous".
January 18, 2012 at 7:31 pm
Tito, you are making no sense. The SPLC does great work every day including keeping a list of hate groups. Sorry if one of your friends is listed as a hate group, but don't blame the SPLC – blame your friend!
And as for participating here as an "Anon" – no man loses credibility for opting not to share his name (and through an easy google, his address, college, law school, family members and place of business) with strangers over the web.
A better question is why do you need to know personal information about me to listen to what I have to say? Do the facts I present carry less weight if my name is John? Sheilah? Washington? Moishe? Seriously, tell me.
January 18, 2012 at 8:22 pm
Anon 1/18/12 at 2:31 PM, Tito is right and you're just a leftist who can't get out of his ideological rut thinking pattern. For those with a mind that can access new information without discounting it before you even read it, go to http://www.slantright.com.index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=3593 It will give the discerning reader more than enough information to prove that the SPLC is an anti-Christian group and that the Pink Swastika is a realiable book.
January 19, 2012 at 2:33 am
Steve, I read it. It's ridiculous. And circular. Just because someone once wrote something somewhere, does not mean that your position is supported. You may as well cite some grafitti to support your claims.
January 19, 2012 at 4:20 pm
Anon, the only thing that is "ridiculous" and "circular" here is your pathetic attempt at rationalization. Your ideology prevents you from seeing things as they were and as they are now. Perverted sexuality (especially sodomy) played a big role in the building up of all socialist movements. All of these movements despised traditional values and traditional social structures, lke the family. These things got in the way of building that socialist dream world. So they promoted sexual liberation to break down those social structures. The SPLC ought to be called the Southern Poverty Pimp Law center. Morris Dees deliberately slanders and libels honest conservatives and Christians and exagerates the power and influence of groups like the Klan to raise money for paranoid donors. For example, he's always railing about the Klan. The modern day Klans are a joke. They have no real power like they did in the 1920's. The FBI has so infiltrated the various KKK groups with informants and undercover agents that all they can do is spit and fume about their sad state. The real meance are the subversive groups that are funded by evil men like George Soros, yet ol' Morris won't investigate them or put them on a list. I guess there isn't enough money to in it to be pointing the finger at folks like Soros.
January 19, 2012 at 4:35 pm
Steve, Since you present no facts, I have no reply. Good luck.
January 20, 2012 at 2:12 am
Since you are unwilling to accept the truth nothing more can be said.
January 21, 2012 at 2:39 pm
@ Bill Foley: Homnosexuality or same-sex attraction is a phase through which all children pass at puberty into sexual adulthood. Some persons do not pass through but become "hung-up" in same-sex attraction. The American Psychiatric Assn. had diagnosed same-sex attraction hang-ups as "arrested development", physical, mental and spiritual, and therefore, believed that same sex attraction could be "cured", if the individual was brought to maturity. Under the militant aggression of the North American Man Boy Love Association the diagnosis was changed to "NORMAL". One can see that a boy does not have informed sexual consent to give legally until emancipation at eighteen or twenty one years of age. Homosexual behavior is the practice of LUST. That all citizens are forced by LAW to call the vice of LUST, the virtue of LOVE, is perjury in a court of law, violence to the laws of nature and nature's God (The Declaration of Independence)and an obscenity. That this vice is taught to minor children in kindergarden with Heather has Two Mommies and the Prince and the Prince is repulsive. The KKK might inflict death on an individual, but destroying the immortal soul of a person, an infant minor, is an offense against God and the civil rights of all persons to be free and especially against the mandate of the Public School system which is to educate, which is defined as teaching the person how to reason, and teaching the person how to use his gifts of reason and talents. Insidiously instilling the opinions of the devil, indoctrination, is evil, tyrannical and soul murder, and as soul murder, the soul murderers must be driven from our midst, for you are men sacred to me says the Lord.