Posted on 12/20/2004 1:07:11 PM PST by concernedAmerican1
No Time Out for Christmas!
It seems there is no time out in the nation's Cultural War. Not even Christmas is sacred. The American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property (TFP) is protesting Time magazine's publishing of statements against the virginity of Our Lady in the cover article of its December 13 edition.
The American TFP is strongly objecting to what it considers a most unwarranted attack on Mary and the Catholic faith. The Time article cites authors that call into question the circumstances of Our Lord's birth with declarations like:
"Critics may also have alleged that Jesus' birth early in Mary's marriage to Joseph was the result of her committing adultery; much later Jewish sources named a Roman soldier called Panthera. Those accusations, some scholars believe, account for the verse in Matthew in which Joseph considers divorcing Mary before his dream angel allays his doubts" (Time, 12-13-04).
Particularly offensive was how a magazine like Time would be so unfeeling for Catholic sentiment as to provide broad publicity to the dissident opinion of a feminist from the University of Detroit Mercy who suggests "violation as the cause of Mary's pregnancy" and that the Holy Spirit converted "a ritually taboo pregnancy into an occasion of glory and the birth of the Holy Child."
The TFP and its America Needs Fatima campaign is asking its members and supporters to speak out now. The peaceful and legal nationwide protest involves prayer, reparation and action. The American TFP hopes to reach one million people with this protest.
Campaign supporters are being asked to sign protest post cards telling Time how deeply offended they are with the statements against Mary's virginity in its December 13 cover article. The cards also ask Time to apologize and never publish such offensive statements again. Participants are encouraged to order more flyers to distribute in their communities and churches.
The American TFP web site is also participating in the action with an e-protest (go to www.tfp.org). Web site readers can send an email copy of the protest card and thus fulfill their duty to defend Mary's purity.
"Now is the time to prove our love for Jesus, Mary and Joseph, and for the beautiful mysteries of Christmas, the birth of Christ," says Robert Ritchie of the America Needs Fatima campaign. "We must always stand up for our faith!"
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It is easy here is all you have to do!
Send an instant protest email to Time magazine asking them to offer a public apology. Visit www.tfp.org
Wishing people Merry Christmas every day does not mean buying them presents again and again.
Just share with them God's gift to us all (His Son) and Jesus' gift to us all (He paid for our sins with His life).
Am I to understand that you are basing your argument on "political correctness"?
I don't recall there being a right not to be offended.
LOL...I caught that as well...but whatelse do you expect from the man who gives us such gem's as "islam is a loving and peaceful religion" ?
I have the expectation to be treated with the same respect as Time Warner extends to EVERY other religion, race, and sexual preference in their editorial decisions.
It IS politically correct (PC) to bash Christians. It is also PC to use words like redneck and white trash (and even breeder) to refer to white heterosexuals.
Do you trust the quality of reporting that you find in Time Magazine from week to week and CNN hourly?
Thanks for the clarification. As a Protestant, I have attended Pentecostal, Methodist, Episcopal, and Baptist churches. Every one of those churches taught the Virgin Birth. Every one of those churches are as offended by that article as any Roman Catholic.
Let's not let the enemies of Christ trick us into fighting each other.
I don't waste my time with either of them. Neither should you.
Agreed. THat's why I sorta said WHOOOPS after I let that one fly!
NP.
'Thanks for the clarification. As a Protestant, I have attended Pentecostal, Methodist, Episcopal, and Baptist churches. Every one of those churches taught the Virgin Birth. Every one of those churches are as offended by that article as any Roman Catholic.
Let's not let the enemies of Christ trick us into fighting each other.'
Amen. The prince of darkness succeeds by division, well one way at least that he succeeds. This nonsense offends all Christians.
This Jew says if you want to bring on another Inquisition, go for it. Many of us are armed and will be more than willing to defend ourselves.
Arrogance.
John Domminick Crossen is the one they always trot out. A former priest and current blasphemer.
In the current state of affairs, I think we'd be on the same team. We certainly wouldn't be coming after you or any other of the Jewish people or other people of good will.
My point was that its not going to take much more to get the party started if the homosexuals and anti-family minions continue in their ways.
I would ex0pect all people of good will to come out fighting. Our forebears had to fight to get these freedoms, we're certainly not going to let them go without a fight.
Peace -
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