Rainbow Sash Movement Plots Papal Protest

LifeSiteNews ^ | 3/11/08 | Michael Baggot

[wagglebee]

March 11, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The Rainbow Sash Movement, a homosexual activist group, announced their plans to protest Pope Benedict XVI's opposition to homosexual behavior during his April visit to the United States. 

The RSM plans to throw ashes at the Pope, because "ashes are an ancient and appropriate greeting for a sinner who has caused the Church so much division and pain," stated the movement.

"We will also be greeting him with whistles; these were used by the Polish People to show shame for the violation of human rights by the Communist Government prior to the end of the cold war," added a RSM statement.

"We are a community of Catholic GLBT along with our allies who work for change in the Church. To continue to hide our identity only enables shame and homophobia.  We are committed to working from within the Church," says the movement.

The RSM is best known for its large Pentecost Sunday protests, in which openly practicing homosexual, bisexual, and "transgendered" individuals identify themselves as such with multicolor sashes and demand Holy Communion during Mass.

The Pope has been a vocal opponent of homosexual "marriage".  In January 2007, after praising traditional families, the Pope said, "projects that aim to attribute to other forms of union inappropriate legal recognition appear dangerous and counterproductive."

The RSM contrasts with ministries in the Church that support Catholics in their efforts to live a life of chastity and to overcome homosexual inclinations when possible.  The Courage apostolate, founded by Fr. John Harvey, OSFS in 1980, has five main goals: Chastity, Prayer and Dedication, Fellowship, Support, and Good Example. 

Courage professes complete fidelity to the teachings of the Catholic Church, including those regarding homosexuality.

"Basing itself on Sacred Scripture, which presents homosexual acts as acts of grave depravity, tradition has always declared that 'homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered,'" states the Catechism of the Catholic Church.

The Catechism adds that those with homosexual tendencies "must be accepted with respect, compassion, and sensitivity.  Every sign of unjust discrimination in their regard should be avoided."

"It is deplorable that homosexual persons have been and are the object of violent malice in speech or in action. Such treatment deserves condemnation from the Church's pastors wherever it occurs.  The intrinsic dignity of each person must always be respected in word, in action and in law," stated a 1986 Vatican document on the pastoral care of homosexual persons, issued by the then Cardinal Ratzinger.

"But the proper reaction to crimes committed against homosexual persons should not be to claim that the homosexual condition is not disordered," added the document.

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[wagglebee]

"We will also be greeting him with whistles; these were used by the Polish People to show shame for the violation of human rights by the Communist Government prior to the end of the cold war," added a RSM statement.

What idiots! When Pope John Paul II visited Poland the whistles were a sign of their love for him as a leader in the fight against communism.

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[Ann Archy]

"We are a community of Catholic GLBT along with our allies who work for change in the Church. To continue to hide our identity only enables shame and homophobia. We are committed to working from within the Church," says the movement.

The ENEMY WITHIN!! These HOMOSEXUALS almost brought down the Church....they need to be EXCOMMUNICATED!

[Ramius]

I’m no Catholic... but only a complete idiot would think that the Pope is going to EVER change his point of view on this topic.

[Jeff Chandler]

In the spirit of the article: Gay Hero.

[ml/nj]

How is this different from some group coming into my synagogue on a Saturday morning and disrupting the proceedings? My guess is that their free speech claims would be met with ten year prison sentences. The disrupters might even be charged with one count for each person there on that morning.

ML/NJ

[isrul]

If these demented sodomites throw something at the Pope, I hope the crowd tears them to pieces. On the spot.

[fogofbobegabay]

I think that papal security will have shot them on the spot long before the crowd got to them.

[tflabo]

but only a complete idiot would think that the Pope is going to EVER change his point of view on this topic.

Not likely God will EVER change His mind either... "Do not lie with a male as with a woman: it is an abomination"...Leviticus 18:22

[Sister_T]

The RSM plans to throw ashes at the Pope, because "ashes are an ancient and appropriate greeting for a sinner who has caused the Church so much division and pain," stated the movement.

Then they had better bathe themselves in it! I'm no Catholic but I'm getting tired of these homo-thugs, trying to bully everyone into agreeing with their perversion. Wonder why they won't try "persuading" Islam with these tactics?

[Argus]

"We are a community of Catholic GLBT

If you're a Gay Lettuce Bacon and Tomato sandwich, you're not Catholic.

[JSDude1]

AMEN (this coming from a Protestant Christian)!! Keep on the faithful..

They ought to be told they aren’t Christian/Catholic/Saved/Etc.. as all men that have not repented of their sins are not Christian..God’s wrath remains on them..!

[Ann Archy]

Thanks.....Pope Benedict is stronger than PJII I believe.

[elcid1970]

I prefer to order the letters as GBLTs.

These are Catholic Giblets. They’re also homo-thugs, from an earlier post. Therefore, time to put on the rubber gloves, respirators, grab the tasers and move in. No mercy on violent, intolerant, AIDS-spitting faggies.

Especially when Rainbow Shashfaggies are attacking MY Pope!

[caseinpoint]

I’m not Catholic either but I know the Pope will hold firm on this. My personal theory is that the less a person or group feels the approval of the Lord and His Holy Spirit, the more desperate they are for public approval, even if they have to force it. The more one feels the blessing of the Lord in his or her life, the less one needs public approval.

[wagglebee]

They ought to be told they aren’t Christian/Catholic/Saved/Etc.. as all men that have not repented of their sins are not Christian..God’s wrath remains on them..!

And the greatest evidence of a sinner's lack of repentance is their demanding the "right" to keep sinning.

There is a world of difference between saying we "all fall short of the Glory of God" and saying, "I want to go and sin some more."

[lastchance]

They are excommunicated since they insist on living in a state of mortal sin.

[Salvation]

Rainbow Sash Movement

Organization of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender "Catholics" who "demand" that the Church change its teachings on homosexuality so that they can live out their lives of burning intrinsically disordered lust. (See Romans 1:26-27)