Whom am I "condemning" and "attacking"?
What I am attacking is sin, not the sinner. It is the Rainbow Sash movement that is using the ad hominem route by attacking the Church because it continues to hold to its centuries old doctrine that sodomy is a serious sin. Their showing up at Mass in their regalia is a simple and open act of defiance. An "in your face" gesture which says we reject official Catholic teaching.
Guess what? When Catholics perceive their Church as being under attack, they get angry.
Wow!! What a shocker! Who knew??
Apparently the Rainbow Sash movement and its apologists construe any attempt to defend the Church as an attack on them.
That's too bad.
Your "take the beam out of your own eye" reference is a tortured and largely inappropriate attempt at biblical quotation. Jesus was referring to those who refused to acknowledge their own sins and maintanined their own righteousness while condemning others. My position is that we are all sinners......me.....the homosexuals....all of us and that our only chance of salvation comes by admitting that sin and asking for forgiveness. Ironically, it's the Rainbow Sash crowd who are the equivalent of the Pharisess here, as they refuse to acknowledge the sinfulness of their actions and actually have the nerve to think that the Catholic Church should simply toss overboard its own doctrine and agree with them. They are stubbornly set in their own self-righteousness.
Tragic.
I am referring to this:
Note to self: practice knuckle-crunching handshake for "sign of peace" with limp-wristed shirtlifter on Pentecost.
Great post!