Posted on 04/26/2005 6:38:17 PM PDT by wagglebee
New York's Gov. Al Smith not only opposed Prohibition, but in 1928 he became the first Roman Catholic ever nominated by a major party to be president.
This resulted in some of America's worst anti-Catholic expressions of bigotry – including a rumor that Gov. Smith was planning to invite the pope to make an extended visit in order to supervise the conversion of this nation to a Roman Catholic country.
When Gov. Smith lost to Herbert Hoover by 444 to 87 electoral votes, he had the good sense of humor and sportsmanship to announce that he had just sent a one-word cable to the pope: "Unpack."
Now, within hours of the election of Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger as the new Pope Benedict XVI, this new pope has been attacked by at least four of America's Sodomy Lobby:
* The "Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbian And Gays (PFLAG) stated that the new pope does not represent a hopeful vision of the future ... He authored a Vatican document condemning marriage and adoption by gay men and lesbians in July 2003."
The Washington Blade (a Washington, D.C., homosexual newspaper) described the document as "a battle plan for Catholic politicians". (Think of that – a "battle plan"! Will the new pontiff come to the United States – as rumored in 1928 – to help Catholic politicians like Sen. Kerry win the battle?)
* The Gay Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation "is calling on the nation's media to examine Ratzinger's documented rhetoric and writings related to gays and lesbians ... In documents dating back to the 1980's, Ratzinger has branded gays and lesbians as 'objectively disordered' and being gay as a 'moral disorder' requiring a 'conversion from evil.' He has accused gay and lesbian parents of 'doing violence to their children' and he has denounced laws protecting same-sex couples and families as 'the approval or legalization of evil.'"
(Question: Did GLAAD learn all this in the two days since Cardinal Ratzinger's election? Or isn't it far more probable that they have been researching him – as the enemy – for years, in order to produce an extensive documentary of denunciation even before he is installed?)
* The deceptively titled "Human Rights Campaign" (which really ought to be honest enough to change that title to "Sodomy Rights Campaign") stated the following: "We hope Pope Benedict XVI will follow the biblical tradition of expressing love and compassion for all."
Where in the Holy Bible is there any verse expressing approval of the act of sodomy? In the New Testament, Jesus Christ, speaking to those who offend little children (and what is more offensive than child molesting?) said: "It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck and he cast into the sea, than he should offend one these little ones" (Luke 2:17).
The "Human Rights Campaign" also noted: "In 1986, Cardinal Ratzinger in a letter to the Catholic bishops, wrote: 'Although the particular inclination of the homosexual person is not sin, it is a more or less strong tendency ordered toward an intrinsic moral evil.'"
* The Rainbow Sash Movement wrote that they were "deeply disappointed with the choice of Cardinal Ratzinger as pope. We had hoped for a pastor and shepherd, instead we get a doctrinal enforcer." This statement goes on to declare: "We remind our fellow Catholics that we are the Church ... The Rainbow Sash Movement will continue to call for openness, toleration and inclusion in the Church."
(Question: Have Rainbow Sash or any of these other three organizations made any statement that there should be marriage for other sexual orientations, such as necrophilia, sadomasochism or bestiality?)
It was rather disagreeably hasty for these four groups to attack the new pope so quickly. But all of their attacks are a badge of honor for this moral leader, who was so quickly elected to lead what is by far Christianity's largest denomination.
"What is an R1 alert?"
This refers to "Rule 1." which derives from a Monty Python sketch which I am sure Mr. Tetzel will be able to link you to if you're interested.
Rule 1: No pooftahs!
;)
(temporarily exiled in Cleveland myself)
I googled < rule one python > (or some such) to find a script of the "Bruces" sketch, and got 'way too many references to my own posts on FR.
BWHAHAHAHAHAHA
AKA. The Butthole surfers.
DNA research will probably come up the genes or sets of genes that predict homosexuality, especially in males.
After that, there will be abortion demands for "queer babies." You might see the "gay libs" and anti-abortionists at the same rally someday. "Don't kill our queer babies." Wouldn't that be a sick sight?
Most homosexuals I know would not have chosen homosexuality. It's a curse for them. I think that's why so many take drugs and drink heavily.
The drive to make homosexuality normal is the perversion, in my mind. Their abnormality is just that, an abnormality of nature, like being born blind. Homosexuals have been around forever. They just coped as best they could with what they had. They served in the military, politics and in the community, many with distinction. It's today's climate of perversion and drive for normalization that is so poison.
R5 AND R7!
No POOFTERS!
But they DID choose. Sexual Orientation is choice. A person chooses which or what behaviors he or she will follow. Genetics decides if you're male or female. SIN enters the photo and you get aberrations of nature. Children born with both gender reproductive parts. "But it was not this way in the beginning."
Call it what you will. What a person does with his or her life is CHOICE. Everything is a choice. Count up all the choices you have in the next fifteen minutes. Choice. I choose to sit in front of the computer. I choose to type an answer to a thread on FR. I choose to pick up my drink and I choose NOT to spill it on the keyboard. I choose to drink three swallows of tea, then I choose to place the glass frighteningly close to the edge of the computer desk. I choose to turn swiftly to see the dog at my feet and in so doing, I knock the glass of tea onto the carpet. I CHOSE to place that glass of tea "frighteningly close" to the edge of the desk and I CHOSE to tempt fate (gravity and my own innate clumsiness) when I placed that glass there. It wasn't really an "accident of nature" it was a CHOICE. Because I could have chosen to place the glass on the side table away from the computer.
Orientation and what the individual does with it is a choice. We (the public) have allowed everything to become sexual in nature. One advertisement for a male sexual enhancer says: Sex is an important part of every relationship. THAT is a LIE straight from he!!. SEX has NOTHING to do with EVERY relationship. It's only a PART of the marital relationship. But society has convinced us that "SEX" is an important part of EVERY relationship.
BalderDash. "It was not so in the beginning."
G*d created male and female. He created them both. Two. Two separate genders. And then He went so far as to give them guidelines for a healthy and productive life.
http://www.drbo.org for a translation of the first translation from Hebrew and Greek into Latin.
We have conditioned ourselves to think that nature has decreed what in reality are OUR CHOICES in given situations. It might be harder for one person to overcome his own conditioning and conditioned responses because his conscience is not fully formed than it would be for another person who has a better formed conscience (knowledge of G*d's laws and commands). Look at two examples: Mother Teresa of Calcutta and Charles Manson. Who has the highly formed conscience? Who has conditioned himself with choices that have essentially killed what little conscience he may have had? CHOICES. That's all it boils down to. One chose G*d's way. One chose the 'other' way. CHOICE.
Life is a choice. Choose Life.
Holosexuality is not a choice. Their lifestyle is.
If Diago doesn't answer, I can give you my thoughts.
CHUPACABRA! CHUPACABRA!
http://www.kingkongvsgodzilla.com/chupa/
Coleus,Bump.
I know some folks down at the chancery. Not long ago gay porn was found on some of the computers there. Nothing was done about it.
Gipper Gal, you are correct in your analysis.
O.K. What is the significance of a gay pterydacytl?
As a C-Town resident, I'd be interested in hering your thoughts on Gipper Galls question.
Great interview. I really like his responses.
Catholic Ping
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Beats me.
But it keeps popping up in the strangest places.....
Just more perversion, I suppose.
You gotta be kidding me.
Did you create this or did it preexist the Diocese of Cleveland's gay bird?
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