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The real story behind the gay pride issue at St. Joan
Minneapolis Star Tribune ^ | June 29, 2008 | KATHERINE KERSTEN

Posted on 06/30/2008 3:46:03 AM PDT by Caleb1411

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To: rhema

This is a brave woman.


21 posted on 06/30/2008 7:24:48 AM PDT by DManA
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To: Caleb1411

Victim mentality. “You owe us because we are victimized by your biased attitude towards us since we are *different*”


22 posted on 06/30/2008 9:35:22 AM PDT by trussell (I carry because...When seconds count between life and death, the police are only minutes away)
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To: yankeedame

Words matter!

And the homosexual lobby is doing everything they can to erase such words as “mother” and “father” “husband” and “wife” etc. Just having the mainstream of America to accept the phrase “gay marriage” is a victory for their lobby.

Consider: the pro-abortion lobby has never conceded that “partial-birth abortion” is an acceptable phrase. They Always prefix “so-called”. We should do the same regarding their attempts to say that a marriage can exist between two similar bodies, by saying “so-called gay marriage.” They are a ‘couple” — a couple of men, or a couple of women. But it takes one of each to make a marriage.


23 posted on 06/30/2008 9:51:01 AM PDT by maica (Peace is the Aftermath of Victory)
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To: Caleb1411; All

Here’s an earlier thread on apostacy and the St. Joan of Arc parish. I grew up in this parish so I know a few things about the background.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2037942/posts


24 posted on 06/30/2008 3:50:34 PM PDT by WorkingClassFilth (Don't cheer for Obama too hard - the krinton syndicate is moving back into the WH.)
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To: Salvation; narses; SMEDLEYBUTLER; redhead; Notwithstanding; nickcarraway; Romulus; ...
Kudos to columnist KATHERINE KERSTEN! It's rare to read an article like this in the mainstream press.

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25 posted on 07/01/2008 10:22:42 AM PDT by NYer ("Ignorance of scripture is ignorance of Christ." - St. Jerome)
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To: Caleb1411

Isn’t this also the Archbishop that had some priceless items stolen from his home recently?


26 posted on 07/01/2008 11:05:59 AM PDT by SAMS ("I may look harmless, but I raised a U.S. MARINE!" Army Wife & Marine Mom)
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To: SAMS
Yep!:

Theft at archbishop's home nets Catholic treasures

27 posted on 07/01/2008 11:23:56 AM PDT by BlessedBeGod
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To: SumProVita
"They WANT the Church to change its more than 2000 year old teaching about the sin of the homosexual lifestyle......so that they will be approved and no longer feel the guilt. That will never happen. We can only pray for them."

Exactly. No matter how much we back up, compromise, change for their sake, etc., we will never be able to ERASE THEIR GUILT. They know it. It scares them.

28 posted on 07/01/2008 11:30:55 AM PDT by redhead (B-I-NGO...B-I-NGO...)
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To: Conservativegreatgrandma
"The controversy should have occured when they first held such a service in the church."

Nienstedt is recently installed. The previous "archbishop" was the swishy Harry Flynn, who was great for looking the other way when the queers wanted to smear a veneer of "religion" over their perversity.

29 posted on 07/01/2008 11:47:15 AM PDT by redhead (B-I-NGO...B-I-NGO...)
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To: maica

Thank you!

From now on I will refer to so-called gay marriage only.


30 posted on 07/01/2008 1:04:38 PM PDT by mckenzie7 (Lib NO MORE!)
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To: maica

Actually, I will refer to it as so-called homosexual marriage. That explains it all!

That word gay has been distorted into something disgusting and immoral and it was a perfectly fine word at one time!


31 posted on 07/01/2008 1:08:10 PM PDT by mckenzie7 (Lib NO MORE!)
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To: mckenzie7

You are right. ‘Gay’ means something bad to children, so they are forbidden to say it ‘in company.’ It was a perfectly good word, until certain people adopted it.

I think of the evolution of words that we cannot say. Words that become pejorative, because they are called hurtful, when what is hurtful is the thing that the word describes.

When I was a child there was such a thing as the Crippled Childrens’ Society. Then we could not say ‘crippled.’ So we said ‘handicapped.’ That became painful, and we now say ‘challenged.’ Soon ‘challenged’ will be ‘mean’ to say. Altering the language does not alter the underlying problem that the person is experiencing.


32 posted on 07/01/2008 1:39:34 PM PDT by maica (Peace is the Aftermath of Victory)
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To: maica

Crippled means propped up.


33 posted on 07/01/2008 1:45:14 PM PDT by Old Professer (The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
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To: Old Professer

My mother-in-law spent her lifetime being called crippled, because she had severe scoliosis and one leg shorter than the other. It did not ‘handicap’ her in doing whatever she wanted to do. Perhaps her bad body form shaped her character. She was a very strong person and personality.

I suppose we are not “allowed” to say “lame” any more either. No matter what descriptive word we use, the fact of her twisted body remained the same.


34 posted on 07/01/2008 2:35:39 PM PDT by maica (Peace is the Aftermath of Victory)
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To: CaspersGh0sts

Their message and its inspiration is all too plainly clear.

To paraphrase the Rolling Stones, it’s a case of “I know I got demons hanging on me but I like it”.


35 posted on 07/01/2008 3:48:31 PM PDT by Fred Hayek (Leftism is a mental disorder)
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To: redhead

“They know it. It scares them.”

It SHOULD scare them. It has to do with....infinity.


36 posted on 07/01/2008 6:38:09 PM PDT by SumProVita ("Cogito ergo sum pro vita." .....updated Descartes)
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