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Chicago Priest Comes Out As Gay
cbs chicago ^ | 2-1-2016

Posted on 02/02/2016 6:32:53 AM PST by Citizen Zed

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To: Citizen Zed

Father Pfleger from St. Sabina?


21 posted on 02/02/2016 7:27:08 AM PST by paddles ("The more corrupt the state, the more it legislates." Tacitus)
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To: If You Want It Fixed - Fix It

Excellent point.

The act of identifying itself is an indication of being unrepentant.

Had he said that he struggled with the sin, that would be different. But he said he was gay. Even followed it with “period”. It is his self professed identity.


22 posted on 02/02/2016 7:28:09 AM PST by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: TalBlack
...the people in the grip of such a thing are NOT trustworthy

I tend to agree with you.

To go 20 years as a priest, and suddenly proclaim one's sexuality, suggests the priest is no longer practicing celibacy and abstinence.

The same is true if a priest were to suddenly declare that he's attracted to females. Declaration of heterosexuality is a lot less creepy than declaration of homosexuality, but it's still creepy and either indicates that the priest is not trustworthy.

23 posted on 02/02/2016 7:35:56 AM PST by kidd
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To: a fool in paradise

No such thing as a celibate homosexual.


24 posted on 02/02/2016 7:51:58 AM PST by Resolute Conservative
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To: Citizen Zed

Archbishop Blase Cupich, that is a most lame statement that you released.


25 posted on 02/02/2016 8:00:10 AM PST by Bigg Red (Keep calm and Pray on.)
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To: RetSignman

+1


26 posted on 02/02/2016 8:01:42 AM PST by Bigg Red (Keep calm and Pray on.)
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To: TalBlack

Well said.


27 posted on 02/02/2016 8:04:33 AM PST by Bigg Red (Keep calm and Pray on.)
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Is he a celibate?

Declaring that "I'm gay" answers that question. You can't be "gay" and not endorse it. It's a political term.

28 posted on 02/02/2016 8:11:01 AM PST by fwdude
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To: Citizen Zed

Did he make ANY EFFORT to try to show that he’s not using his position to recruit innocent little kids.

Probably not...


29 posted on 02/02/2016 11:52:01 AM PST by BobL (Who cares? He's going to build a wall and stop this invasion.)
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To: Rurudyne

Well, he said he wanted to help homosexual kids, so, I don’t think he thinks homosexuality is a sin.


30 posted on 02/03/2016 9:29:28 AM PST by NetAddicted (Just looking)
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To: Rurudyne

Another excellent point.


31 posted on 02/03/2016 9:35:43 AM PST by NetAddicted (Just looking)
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To: NetAddicted

I kinda got that feeling from his quote, as it gave of the whole “this is me and you need to accept that” vibe.

And, if that’s the case, we shouldn’t be surprised. I would not necessarily expect those who are in a Romans 1:18-32 trending situation to realize it. As with many things, people are led from one place to another when they choose actions or beliefs that often seem unimportant at the time but, when looking back, are actually distinct branches on the road. Follow enough of the forks in the winding paths of life that lead away from the straight and narrow road and you can end up in places where you’d have never thought you have gone to begin with.

It’s kinda like the one quote from a Simpsons episode set in the future where Homer remarks that FOX’s slide to become a hard core porn channel was so gradual he’d never really noticed it happen.

By the same token, we can see that Quayle’s Murphey Brown comment was on the mark, because some of those who scoffed then are now championing outright perverted lifestyles and all that goes with them and they may have never noticed how their attitudes have shifted as they were mindlessly tugged along by the popular culture, confused as they were by the thought that its (inherently transient) cobbled together judgments are right and valid.


32 posted on 02/03/2016 9:50:07 AM PST by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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Interesting how homosexuals led to this current time, when people aren’t allowed to judge deviant lifestyles as perverted and deviant. When did homosexuals get allowed to rule our thoughts? Sounds very Satanic.


33 posted on 02/03/2016 7:45:46 PM PST by NetAddicted (Just looking)
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It would have been unavoidable once many so-called “progressives” basically started to define progress as change away from what has been with no sense of where it leads.

We can see how this plays out, for example, in their attitudes towards scandals involving Democrats: a process of accommodation and acceptance.

Unless something is so utterly horrific that it can disabuse them all at once, they are able to get over it, accommodate it, maybe even justify it. Thereafter whatever comes along that is only about that bad, or just a bit worse, is easier to cope with. Over time all of this becomes old news, unimportant scandal mongering of the right and only petty partisans keep bringing it up. It is also cumulative: as disabusing them all at once becomes ever harder to do. Which is to say, once the proverbial wagons were circled their wheels assumed a set, letting them circle without effort.

It is an irrational process at work on the left, just as the slide of the culture into the depths of the cesspool on moral issues like homosexuality or abortion.

There is, to be blunt, no sense that there can ever be an accumulation of misdeeds to portent worse things to come. They are the knee-jerk heirs of those who once read the DoI and were bored.


34 posted on 02/04/2016 7:00:05 AM PST by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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