[impimp]

I think I smell a “seamless garment” component to Shea’s article. That is not a smell I am fond of.

[pgkdan]

“seamless garment”

One of the most evil, pernicious and false doctrines ever foisted upon the Faithful!

[Mrs. Don-o]

In fairness to Shea, it should be noted that he has run almost daily denunciations of the thugs he calls "Gay Brownshirts" ---the Homosexual promoters/activists who are bullying Christians, seducing minors, polluting the public square, and generally remolding our culture into the image of Sodom.

Shea denounces them on pretty nearly a daily basis. and in the strongest possible terms.

The part excepted here is were he is trying to make a distinction between public corruption which is unquestionably damnable, and the interior disposition of one person's soul, Perry Lorenzo, which he says he does not know.

He does know that this man had many virtues. He does not say that if you add up a dozen of this man's thoughts, words and deeds and divide them by 12, he's a nice guy so anal penetration must be OK. He does NOT say it's laudable if the guy commits sodomy. He doesn't KNOW whether or not he committed sodomy.

Sodomy is serious: just as serious as a person committing contraception, by the way: in itself a grave sexual sin.

What Shea's trying to get at (in his typiclaly fervent style) is the difference between denouncing sinful sexual behavior, which is objectively wrong, and judging one Perry Lorenzo, whose private life Shea did not put under surveillance.