WashPost Columnist Rips Catholic Pastor: Foes of Left's LGBT Agenda Should Be 'Marginalized'

NewsBusters ^ | 02/17/2014 | Matthew Balan

[Pyro7480]

Robert McCartney slimed a Northern Virginia Catholic priest in a Sunday column in the Washington Post for his decision to end his parish's relationship with the Boy Scouts for letting openly-homosexual youth to join as scouts. McCartney blasted Father John De Celles, pastor of St. Raymond of Peñafort parish in Springfield, for his supposed "diatribes against gay behavior, liberal activists and similar targets in his weekly columns."

The columnist later touted how "De Celles is in the minority" in disbanding his parish's Cub Scout pack and Boy Scout troop, and bringing in an alternative youth group that "discriminates against boys who refuse to hide their homosexuality," as he spun it. He all but called for discrimination against those who defend traditional sexual morals: "I hope and expect that those with narrow-minded views will be the ones who end up 'marginalized.'"

McCartney led his column, "No. Virginia Catholic priest is in minority in region in breaking with Boy Scouts over gays" (titled "Priest deserves to be in minority over Scouts, gays" in the print edition) by claiming that Father De Celles acted against the wishes of Pope Francis, due to the pontiff's much-hyped "who am I to judge?" remarks about homosexuals....

[cripplecreek]

They don't really want to be "included", they really want to destroy any haven of conservative values.

That's exactly it.

[RginTN]

Leftists really do hate freedom.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Pyro7480.

[Pyro7480]

You’re welcome!

[GOPJ]

Our culture has accepted two huge lies: The first is that if you disagree with someone's lifestyle, you must fear them or hate them. The second is that to love someone means you agree with everything they believe or do.Both are nonsense.You don't have to compromise convictions to be compassionate ..

Great quote... thanks.

[DJ MacWoW]

You’re welcome! :-)

[Morpheus2009]

The whole thing about Boy Scouts is well, it was never supposed to be all about sex, period. It was about developing a trade in nonsexual activities that are uh, actually relevant in life, and developing a work ethic as a young man, that you stereotypically pretty much are doomed not to have in sitcoms nowadays.

[Morpheus2009]

Thanks for this quote, because it is well, very true.

[DJ MacWoW]

You’re welcome! :-)

[concernedgrandma]

I recently engaged in a lengthy e-mail “battle” with none other than EWTN Radio’s own “Reverend” Mister Al Kresta, regarding the incredibly alarming, foolish statements which Pope Francis has uttered in interviews with the press lately. While the talk-show host valiantly attempted to decisively “put-me-in-my-place” by “dazzling” and—so he thought—intimidating me with the “astounding breadth” of his knowledge of Catholic Church history, mentioning endless “councils,” “convocations,” “encyclicals,” “papal bulls,” etc., I ended by telling him, not only that His Holiness has done absolutely nothing to engender confidence in those of us genuinely “on the front lines” in this war against dangerously oppressive, unbridled secularism, but that both he and his fellow EWTN “apologists” urgently needed to enroll in a crash course in Christian humility. Notwithstanding Francis’ outrageous remarks, the arrogance, braggadocio and grandiosity of some of these so-called “Catholic celebrities” is nothing short of appalling!

[Intolerant in NJ]

WashPost Columnist Rips Catholic Pastor: Foes of Left's LGBT Agenda Should Be 'Marginalized'...hmmmm, maybe the way Christians are being marginalized in Muslim countries now, and Jews were marginalized in Nazi Germany - sounds as though the Washington Post should be marginalized......

[RichInOC]

1. Conscience isn’t (or shouldn’t be) subject to majority rule.

2. Mr. McCartney, as he could rather easily have found out, is hearing what he wants to hear of that quote from Pope Francis. But research is hard.

3. I myself hope and expect that those with narrow-minded views should be marginalized. It’s hard to imagine more egregious examples than some of those currently running the country and reporting on it.

[Salvation]

I wonder if responsibility is even living in his conscience?

[Secret Agent Man]

i dunno. it’s clear the golden rule isn’t in him.

[Bigg Red]

Thank you for the ping.

Prayers up for this priest and his parish as they bear the onslaught wrought by the Evil One.

[Bigg Red]

Nothing to do with this particular topic of homosexuality, but you reminded me of something very alarming that I heard on EWTN radio recently.

Recently, I turned on my car radio to EWTN and caught part of an interview with the authors of a new book. Raymond Arroyo was interviewing James CarVILE and Mary Matalin. I was so repulsed! I just wonder what Mother Angelica would have to say about giving air time to a disgusting pro-abortion, pro-homo pig like CarVILE.