Posted on 09/20/2014 4:51:11 AM PDT by Kaslin
March may be a bit far off, but a St. Patrick's Day brawl has come early. No one seems happy by the recent decision to include OUT@NBCUniversal, an LGBT activist group to participate in New York's St. Patrick's Day parade.
For the sake of clarity: St. Patrick is the patron saint of the archdiocese of New York, and though Catholics have always been a big part of the parade, the parade is not run by the Church. And while the NBC group's position on LGBT issues does not gibe with Catholic teaching, it's somewhat consistent with the parade's history to let the group march, as the NBC group is not so much political as civic -- it's about fellowship, not politics.
And while most commentary is currently of the angry variety at the moment, this could be an opportunity, as New York's Cardinal Timothy Dolan has put it, for some "unity," for a celebration of common human dignity.
"We believe that love is our mission, and that this mission is the only way we can be fully alive and be who we were created to be," says a church text published in preparation for the pope's expected visit to America next fall, when he's scheduled to attend a conference on the family. "We believe that this love should be taught, shared and communicated in and through the family, the domestic church."
This "love is our mission" stuff might sound trite, but it is exactly that kind of basic renewal and what it could bring for men, women and families that so concerns the Church as of this moment. It's about people who live their faith in the world and thus serve as beacons to others, providing inspiration and an example of what concrete faith looks like.
Groups such as Courage, which serves and supports men and women attracted to members of the same gender who choose to live chastely -- joyfully, but by no means in a Pollyannaish or all-problems-solved way.
"Look at the face of the other ... discover that he has a soul, a history, and a life, that he is a person and that God loves this person," begins a documentary the group made, which can be viewed at everlastinghills.org. The quote comes from Pope Benedict.
In explaining his decision to be grand marshal of the parade even with the OUT group, Cardinal Dolan said "people with same-sex attraction are God's children, deserving dignity and respect, never to be treated with discrimination or injustice." This is in the Catechism of the Catholic Church. It's been said again and again -- even by a pope -- but it sometimes takes a media circus for it to be heard.
Probably the best-known contemporary exemplar of practical faith, hope and love was Mother Teresa." Her love was concrete and enterprising," Pope John Paul II said of her shortly after her death. The Missionaries of Charities, which Mother Teresa founded, serve the "poorest of the poor," reaching out to the most forgotten and even feared. "It spurred her to go where few had the courage to go, wherever poverty was so great as to be frightening," JPII said. According to him, Mother Teresa "incarnated that love which Jesus indicated as the distinctive mark of his disciples."
Whether over green beer or after Mass, nothing about Church teaching is going to resonate if the love that Mother Teresa radiated is missing. Let's keep it in the parade.
Where is “love” and “dignity” in fecalphilia?
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Of course it isn’t, that would mean that homosexuality would have a negative label. I want to call things what they are, and gay men like to play with poop.
How about, "people with farm animal-sex attraction are God's children, deserving dignity and respect, or, "people with little children-sex attraction are God's children, deserving dignity and respect, etc. etc.
Preposterous. I love how the libtards and homolovers reach into their pockets to play the Mother Teresa card whenever it some to acceptance of this disgusting asexual behavior.
Townhall: leading the slouch toward Gomorrah.
If it is Catholic/Christian to march in public to recognize and celebrate homosexuals, then it should also be appropriate to celebrate rapists, murderers, abortionists, pedophiles, beastiality-lovers, liars, thieves, Satanists and Democrats in the same parade.
How long before Planned Parenthood and other pro-abortion groups get to march?
And why not? It’s all about “love”...
Seems to me the LGBT thing is about lustful proclivities, and has nothing to do with love.
Then again, no expert on the topic.
Satisfying an animalistic sex drive any where you can is not love. In God’s eyes...it is sin. It doesn’t matter whether you are a gay man and hopping from one sexual encounter to another....or a straight man nailing every drunk bimbo you can find. Neither is love...and both are sin.
What part of “an abomination” does Cardinal Dolan not understand? The Roman church is devolving into Flip Wilson’s “The Church of What’s Happenin’ Now.”
Townhall didn't write the article
Some time ago I concluded K-Lo was a naive spinster scribbling away in a dim corner of NR.
You mean the St. Patty’s day parade isn’t about celebrating our worldly passions and the various and many false idols we devote so much of our time and thoughts to?
So let the "Adulterers of America" march, as well as the "Thief Pride" group. After all, they're all human beings, possessing human dignity.
No, KJL, you’re WRONG!
This is about promoting the homosexual agenda and lifestyle.
Not only is there no obligation to support, endorse, or promote this behavior, it is WRONG to do so.
This is NOT about “understanding and accepting”!
Try “copraphilia”.
...it’s about fellowship, not politics....
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Naive, to say the least.
Rapists, murderers, pedophiles, etc maybe. But Democrats!??? Now you’re just being silly.
Or redundant.
If it is Catholic/Christian to march in public to recognize and celebrate homosexuals, then it should also be appropriate to celebrate rapists, murderers, abortionists, pedophiles, beastiality-lovers, liars, thieves, Satanists and Democrats in the same parade.
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Wait! Didn’t you get the memo? That’s the line-up for the 2016 parade.
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