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 16, 2012 at 5:45 pm
The KKK was made up of Democrats who hated the Republican Party and Catholics.
The gay rights movement is made up of Democrats who hate the Republican party and Catholics.
January 16, 2012 at 6:16 pm
There are, I'm sure, many practicing homosexuals who are not violent. But let's not pretend that as a whole the group is not violent – it is very easy to google stats about the disproportionate amount of violent crime by homosexuals, including more pronounced violence within those crimes. Sadly, people who are homosexual are usually people who were abused and mistreated in some way, and often have mental and emotional problems.
January 16, 2012 at 7:38 pm
I would much rather the bishops serve communion to these loony goofs than people truly influential in politics who are responsible for the daily deaths of the innocent unborn.
Unrepentant sodomites are, in the main, eating and drinking to their own destruction, and everyone pretty much knows they're sad, fringe characters to which we direct our acute embarrassment and sorrow. They are frequently victims of abuse and these theatrics are an infantile "acting out." The moment they enter a room, their crazy behavior shoots any cause of their right in the foot.
But, when Nancy Pelosi steps up for communion, this is more sinister approbation for a much more heinous crime. She's not just some mentally ill, inappropriate goofball, but the receptacle, if you will, for what we think is acceptable for normal, thinking, socially active Catholics.
January 16, 2012 at 8:56 pm
How about Jesus telling us to love? Is anyone else getting tired of the hatred from both sides? My Catholic brothers and sisters, LOVE!
btw: this is being written by a Catholic seminarian with same-sex attraction who is hopelessly in love with his Savior, Jesus Christ, and I suffer immensely when I see the intolerance and anger coming out of my own Church!
Create in us a clean heart, O God!
Let him without sin cast the first stone.
January 16, 2012 at 9:56 pm
Since when did the definition of love expand to approving sinful activity? Since when is telling someone that they're engaging in soul-destroying and body-destroying activity not loving them?
SS, you need to get out of the seminary, explaining to your advisors that you have a same-sex attraction that disqualifies you from being a Catholic priest, and serve the Body of Christ in a different way. You need to read the document:
Instruction Concerning the Criteria for the Discernment of Vocations with regard to Persons with Homosexual Tendencies in view of their Admission to the Seminary and to Holy Orders
http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/ccatheduc/documents/rc_con_ccatheduc_doc_20051104_istruzione_en.html
It says, verbatim:
"In the light of such teaching, this Dicastery, in accord with the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, believes it necessary to state clearly that the Church, while profoundly respecting the persons in question[9], cannot admit to the seminary or to holy orders those who practise homosexuality, present deep-seated homosexual tendencies or support the so-called "gay culture"[10]."
If you truly loved the Church, and the Jesus who founded it, you would obey its commands and not reshape them according to your own desires. In that obedience, you would find true love. Not some sham of it.
If I hear one more person misapply "Let him without sin cast the first stone" I am going to puke.
January 16, 2012 at 11:08 pm
Also, why are gay activists allowed to assault people they don't agree with? If you or I threw glitter at Perez Hilton, we'd be locked up within five minutes. Why does this double standard exist?
January 17, 2012 at 1:10 am
SS, is that supposed to stand for Same-Sex? Leave the seminary NOW!
January 17, 2012 at 1:49 am
The practice of homosexual behavior is the practice of the vice of LUST. Laws have been passed forcing citizens to call the practice of the vice of LUST, love. This is perjury in a court of law. Homosexual behavior denies the immortal soul of the participants. The sovereign personhood and all unalienable rights, and right reason are endowed by our Creator to the rational immortal soul for an eternity of life with God. The homosexual practitioner chooses to practice lust for an eternity instead of the love of God. What a bore and how uninteresting after the first eternity.
January 17, 2012 at 1:59 am
Another word about "Jesus being a homo" God is LOVE, God is BEing, God is Existence. God WHO is LOVE does not practice the vice of LUST. Our God would cease to be God and every person ever to come into existence, if any person could come into existence without the will of God, could not be redeemed and would have to spend forever in damnation outside of heaven. This is what the homosexual practitioner is actually visiting on himself and on all people when He says that Jesus the Son of the LIving God Who is LOVE is not WHO HE says HE is. And the militant homosexual practitioners do not have a clue as to why persons are objecting to spending eternity in damnation because of their behavior.
January 17, 2012 at 2:03 am
@Nick: Why this double standard? Cowardice
January 17, 2012 at 2:08 am
Laura, I can't believe your post was approved by the moderator. You've made the following outrageous statements, and I call BS!! Please providcrazy statementss:
1. Disproportionate amount of violent crime by homosexuals, including more pronounced violence within those crimes.
2. People who are homosexual are usually people who were abused and mistreated in some way, and often have mental and emotional problems.
Wow. I'm pretty sure there is no basis in fact for those statements. You should be ashamed.
January 17, 2012 at 3:01 pm
Comparing the Queer Rights movement to the KKK is inaccurate. A better comparison would be Nazism. The Nazi party was founded by sodomites. This is well documented in "The Pink Swastika" by Abrams and Lively. Nearly all of the early leaders of the party were sodomites or friendly toward them. The party originely meet in a queer bar. The book can be found on line at http://www.defendthe family.com/pfrc/books/pinkswastika/htm/the_pinkswastika_4th_edition_-_final.htm
January 17, 2012 at 4:38 pm
Blackrep, I think you need to read the paragraph you posted again, and then apologise to SS.
January 17, 2012 at 5:22 pm
The good news is, the KKK now accepts Catholics in! My uncle had a cross burned in his yard in Michigan in the 1930's because he was Catholic. His future Father in Law and Grandfather in law did it as Klan members.
Unless Priests start getting lynched, the KKK reference is pretty shallow, the Nazi comment is just silly.
January 17, 2012 at 5:49 pm
George:
Can you explain what it is you see in Blackrep's post which necessitates an apology to SS?
Near as I can tell, Blackrep was performing the immensely charitable service of admonishing SS to obey the Church.
What are you seeing in the paragraph that I am not?
January 17, 2012 at 5:58 pm
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January 17, 2012 at 6:07 pm
Having same-sex attraction does not equal practising homosexuality, having "deep-seated homosexual tendencies" or supporting gay culture.
In the same way, having opposite-sex attraction (which is obviously not disordered like same-sex attraction) does not equal committing adultery/fornication, being in a constant state of lust or supporting the unchaste culture.
The Church, for good reason, needs to enforce certain parameters regarding candidates for the priesthood. But simply having same-sex attraction, like simply having ANY predisposition towards sin, is not an immediate disqualifier.
January 17, 2012 at 6:09 pm
Granted, much more discernment is needed when approving such candidates, but people with same-sex attraction are just as capable to live a celibate and pure life by the grace of God.
January 17, 2012 at 6:10 pm
Anon at 1/17/12 12:22 PM, The Pink Swastika gives plenty of documentation that the Nazi Party was founded by and controled by a sodomite leadership. Whatis "silly" is that you haven't read the book to check out the evidence. BTW, the original post-bellum KKK wasn't anti-Jew or anti-Catholic. many Catholics and Jews were members of the hooded order.
January 17, 2012 at 6:11 pm
Wow, my grammar is really bad. *capable of living 😉