Posted on 07/06/2020 5:01:58 PM PDT by ebb tide
BALTIMORE, Maryland, July 2, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — An archbishop has hired a “diversity and inclusion” consultant who is unabashedly pro-LGBT; supports the Marxist, pro-abortion, anti-family Black Lives Matter movement; and sees Republicans as evil to help him “grapple with racial tension” in a city that has long been plagued with racial unrest and violence.
Baltimore archbishop William E. Lori announced in a June 5 letter that he has hired Howard Ross, founder and president of the Udarta consulting firm in Washington, D.C., to help him “implement the recommendations outlined in his second pastoral reflection on racism, ‘The Journey to Racial Justice: Repentance, Healing and Action.’”
According to multiple online biographies, Ross has served on the Diversity Advisory Board of the LGBT Washington, D.C. lobbying powerhouse, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), which frequently seeks to promote legislation and regulations diametrically opposed to Christian beliefs and defying natural law.
A review of Ross’s Facebook postings over the last month reveals support for political movements, organizations, and ideas that are antithetical to the Catholic Church and her teachings.
On the day before Archbishop Lori published his letter, Ross had posted a link to an article in the LGBT news outlet The Washington Blade headlined “Trump admin to Supreme Court: Let adoption agencies reject LGBTQ families,” which he captioned, “Yet another example that the Trump administration’s guiding principles are bigotry, cruelty, hatred and exclusion.”
The Trump Department of Justice had filed a brief saying the City of Philadelphia had “impermissibly discriminated against religious exercise” by requiring Catholic Social Services to adhere to the city’s demand requiring LGBT non-discrimination practices in child placement.
“Governmental action tainted by hostility to religion fails strict scrutiny almost by definition,” the brief asserts. “This court has never recognized even a legitimate governmental interest — much less a compelling one — that justifies hostility toward religion.”
And because the brief sought to protect religious liberty, and tangentially to look out for the best interests of children, Ross accused the Trump DOJ of “bigotry, cruelty, hatred and exclusion.”
Eight days later, when the Trump Department of Health rolled back Obama-era protections for transgender individuals by “returning to the government’s interpretation of sex discrimination according to the plain meaning of the word ‘sex’ as male or female and as determined by biology,” Ross again took to Facebook to deem the move “sick, demented, cruel and hateful.”
Ross inferred that those who accept the view that sex is determined solely by biology have abandoned their humanity.
A few days later, when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in a 6-3 decision to redefine “sex” in Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights law, interpreting it to include sexual orientation and gender identity, ostensibly opening up churches to future litigation and posing a grave threat to religious liberty, Ross simply declared, “Hallelujah!”
Ross then asserted in another Facebook posting that he considers voting for Donald Trump in the upcoming election an act of violence against LGBT persons.
Ross has also displayed his support for Black Lives Matter (BLM), an organization that aggressively promotes abortion, homosexuality, and transgenderism and seeks to disrupt the nuclear family.
In its online manifesto titled “What We Believe,” the Black Lives Matter organizers say they and their followers “disrupt” the “Western-prescribed” family. They also say they have freed themselves from “heteronormative thinking” and demand “reproductive justice.”
“We disrupt the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure requirement by supporting each other as extended families and ‘villages’ that collectively care for one another, especially our children, to the degree that mothers, parents, and children are comfortable,” they wrote.
“We foster a queer‐affirming network. When we gather, we do so with the intention of freeing ourselves from the tight grip of heteronormative thinking, or rather, the belief that all in the world are heterosexual (unless s/he or they disclose otherwise),” they continued.
“We deserve and thus we demand reproductive justice [i.e., abortion] that gives us autonomy over our bodies and our identities while ensuring that our children and families are supported, safe, and able to thrive.”
LifeSiteNews reached out to Archbishop Lori’s office to find out if the archdiocese was aware of Ross’s troubling support for the marxist BLM political movement and homosexuality and trangenderism, and his connection to HRC but received no reply by press time. LifeSiteNews has likewise sought comment from Howard Ross.
Appeasing the radical left yet further.
Therefore, practitioners CAN NOT BE "a cornerstone of the Church"!!!!
Especially when they ACTIVELY LEAD OTHERS TO SIN!!!
“diversity and inclusion” consultant”
SPJNK.
6 Jul: Breitbart: Starmer U-Turns Again: Will Take ‘Unconscious Bias Training’ After Distancing Himself From BLM
by Oliver JJ Lane
The leader of the UK’s main left-wing opposition Sir Keir Starmer has said “everybody should have unconscious bias training” as he committed to taking such a course himself after being criticised for distancing himself from the Black Likes Matter UK movement.
Newly installed Labour party leader Sir Keir had initially welcomed the BLMUK movement with open arms, speaking in support of the organisation and even posting an image to social media of himself taking a knee on the carpet of the official opposition offices inside parliament.
Yet as some political figures in the United Kingdom had pointed out, behind the agreeable-sounding name of Black Lives Matter there was a hard-left political organisation riding the zeitgeist and using the powerful BLM message to deliver a radical program of reform. As it became clear BLMUK was actively campaigning for extremist positions like abolishing the police in the United Kingdom, some figures who had previously given unequivocal support walked back earlier positions, with Sir Keir entering into a u-turn last week...
Last week, the UK state broadcaster the ***BBC told its presenters and guests to not wear BLM badges on air as a “step too far” when it comes to the meeting the terms of political neutrality imposed upon it by the charter which governs the corporation — and allows it to collect funding through a television tax.
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/07/06/starmer-u-turns-again-will-take-unconscious-bias-training-after-distancing-himself-from-blm/
***BBC has continued with it promotion of BLM/violent protests nonetheless.
Thanks, E.T., for posting this. Why Pope (Emeritus) Benedict chose to appoint (now) Abp. Lori to this oldest see in the U.S. baffles me.
disheartening, even sickening.
Lori is not a good shepherd.
Prayers up for Holy Mother Church.
The BLM and Antifa are the now hard-left demonKKKrat party’s “shock troops”, as is Antifa; much like the KKK were the “shock troops” for the post Civil War demonKKKrats.
How stupid can the Archdiocese be?
As the Church shrinks and dioceses declare bankruptcy, stories like this give you an idea as to how much money they have. The bankruptcies just limit the amounts they’ll owe for the child rapists among them; they have incredible amounts of assets.
The American Church has wasted 50 years trying to attract blacks; there are some populations (Haitians, Biafrans and such) but among black Americans the attempts have generally failed.
Unfortunately, actions like this are not really aimed at attracting anyone but are designed to further degrade the Church and to drive off more of the faithful.
Prayers up for Holy Mother Church.
I’m fortunate my bishop and priest are not pushing leftist politics, they are solid Catholics. If I were under one of these radicalized dioceses, I don’t know if I would call myself Catholic.
The gates of Hell won’t prevail against Her - but it is already shaping up to be a much smaller Church.
So true.
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