Posted on 02/22/2010 6:16:07 PM PST by GeronL
“WASHINGTON, DC, February 17, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The Catholic Archdiocese of Washington has been forced to give up the foster care program it ran with the aid of public funds, after repeated warnings that there would be no other choice should the D.C. City Council insist that the archdiocese recognize gay “marriage” partners in its employment practices.
The Washington Post reported Wednesday that Catholic Charities handed over the foster-care program intact to the National Center for Children and Families on February 1. Catholic Charities, whose foster program included 43 children, 35 families and seven staff, runs more than 20 social service programs for the District of Columbia and receives $20 million in city funding.
Before the City Council approved the marriage bill in December, the archdiocese pointed out that, unless religious exemption language were broadened, the law would force Catholic Charities to violate Catholic moral teaching in providing spousal benefits for “married” homosexual partners of employees. Council members ignored the request “
• A Christian photographer was forced by the New Mexico Civil Rights Commission to pay $6,637 in attorney’s costs after she refused to photograph a gay couple’s commitment ceremony.
• A psychologist in Georgia was fired after she declined for religious reasons to counsel a lesbian about her relationship. Even though she referred the client to a supportive psychologist.
• Christian fertility doctors in California who refused to artificially inseminate a lesbian patient were barred by the state Supreme Court from invoking their religious beliefs in refusing treatment.
• A Christian student group was not recognized at a University of California law school because it denies membership to anyone practicing sex outside of traditional marriage.
- We have homosexual sex promoted in our public schools starting in kindergarten.
- Wanda Sykes is regularly lecturing teenage boys on a tv PSA that it is not ok to use “gay” as a perjorative, and that they’d best shut up and submit to the current dogma.
- Big Brothers/Sisters now places at risk kids with same sex homosexual adults. Even though homosexuals molest at a far higher rate than heterosexuals. They will not of course place straight men with minor girls or straight women with minor boys.
- The Sea Scouts have lost their decades old slip for their ship in Berkeley because the Scouts don’t allow homosexual men to be troop leaders. Troop leaders take kids on overnight camps that last as long as two weeks.
Homosexuals prey on children.
* 33% of homosexuals ADMIT to minor/adult sex (7)
* There is a notable homosexual group, consisting of thousands of members, known as the North American Man and Boy Love Association ( NAMBLA). This is a child molesting homosexual group whose cry is “SEX BEFORE 8 BEFORE IT’S TOO LATE.” This group can be seen marching in most major homosexual parades across the United States
* Homosexuals commit more than 33% of all reported child molestations in the United States, which, assuming homosexuals make up 2% of the population, means that 1 in 20 homosexuals is a child molestor, while 1 in 490 heterosexuals is a child molestor (19)
* 73% of all homosexuals have had sex with boys under 19 years of age (9)
* Many homosexuals admit that they are pedophiles: “The love between men and boys is at the foundation of homosexuality” (22)
* Because homosexuals can’t reproduce naturally, they resort to recruiting children. Homosexuals can be heard chanting “TEN PERCENT IS NOT ENOUGH, RECRUIT, RECRUIT, RECRUIT” in their homosexual parades. A group called the “Lesbian Avengers” prides itself on trying to recruit young girls. They print “WE RECRUIT” on their literature. Some other homosexuals aren’t as overt about this, but rather try to infiltrate society and get into positions where they will have access to the malleable minds of young children (e.g., the clergy, teachers, Boy Scout leaders, etc.). See the DC Lesbian Avengers web page, and DC Lesbian Avengers Press Release, where they threaten to recruit little boys and girls. Also, see AFA Action Alert.
(7) Family Research Institute, Lincoln, NE
(8) Fields, Dr. E. “Is Homosexual Activity Normal?” Marietta, GA
(9) Jay and Young. The Gay Report. Summit Books, 1979, p. 275
19) Psychological Reports, 1986, 58, pp. 327-37
Churches and Ministers in Canada are being brought up on hate crime charges for speaking out on the sin of homosexuality.
You are saying that society does not have the right to dictate what is “socially” moral and acceptable. Well if the government dictates what is “socially” acceptable - how much freedom is in that??? Everyone already has Rights, and unless those Rights have been Violated - The power to consider what is socially acceptable should be left up to SOCIETY - ( which does not favor “open homosexuality”. )
Which is more loving, to confront the people choosing to commit homosexual acts and let them know that they are on the road to hell (and show them how to get off that road), or to encourage them (enable them) to become more comfortable in that choice?
Seems to me that the true Christian love would be to show them the error of their ways and try to help them find their way out of hell.
Telling them (by any means) that it's "OK to be gay" is exactly the same as telling them "Go to Hell!". It's hatred of the vilest sort.
I have become aware that Salem Communictaions is not a biblical Christian organization. They maintain a forum (crosswalk.com) where the gay apologists and liberals are allowed to spew their poison but biblical conservatives are not.
In the spirit of honest disclosure I was recently banned from there as they didn't want to hear what the bible said about such things as abortion, homosexuality etc.
Their viewpoint tends to be "No one can decide what a Christian is and no one can say what the bible really means". In practice it means that the liberals can say that abortion is fine but the conservatives cannot say "Thou shalt not murder"
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It's not a fixation. It is just that the practice of homosexual behavior is the ONLY thing that identifies a homosexual.
When someone claims to be "homosexual" they are stating to the world "I choose to put my privates in places where they don't belong". You can't separate the defining characteristic of the class from the class.
Years ago the big cry from those who choose to practice this perversion was "What we do in our bedroom is our own business". Now they want to do it in their bedrooms, on the streets, in the schools and they want us to approve and enable it.
The "love that dare not mention it's name" has become the "perversion that won't STFU"
Neither you nor skywalk want to discuss the issues. For example I posed these questions (below) to skywalk, and got crickets chirping in response. How's that for "discussing?"
Maybe, just maybe neither of you wish to grapple with the real issues, instead you trumpet the same old worn out phrases of the leftist trolls, using words like "hate" and unChristian, brilliant, etc., etc.
Anyway, maybe you would like to answer these questions posed above to skywalk in post #104. They are easy to answer, even a simple yes or no would do...
Do you believe marriage should only be between a man and a woman?
Do you support having 5 and 6 year old children being taught in public schools that homosexual sex is normal?
Do you care if gay pride parades flaunt disgusting perversions on public streets in most major cities of the US?
Do you support the homosexual agenda?
The second law of homosexuality:
To the mentally healthy (heterosexual), sex is something you do.
To the mentally damaged ("homosexual"), sex is everything you are.
Well said sir.
“Hot Air” is kaput. It’s nothing but worthless, sneaky propaganda from the fisting left.
GOPROUD is an organization dedicated to advancing special rights for homosexual behavior, and advocates the overthrow of the Defense of Marriage Act and the overthrow of the law banning homosexual service in the military.
Maybe you should prance on down to headquarters and sign up.
You realize then, that what you advocate is a form of cultural relativism?
X is right as X is approved by society/culture Y.
It’s actually textbook cultural relativism. No, actually, you as SOCIETY don’t have that right. Because SOCIETY also approved of burning cats for enjoyment, killing people over petty crime, slavery, female circumcision, women being ‘owned’ by their families, anti-Semitic pogroms and murder and a boatload of other morally objectionable practices. Or ones like ecstatic rites in various wine-centered religions, self-castration (or forced) for various religious cults, holy prostitution, child marriage, child rape, right of rape in war, plunder and looting, etc.
One man consenting to have sex with another man seems fairly low on that list.
Now, if you say that gay MARRIAGE has a right to be opposed, I’d probably agree but “open homosexuality”? Well you can oppose what you want to, but I think leftists are far more destructive to liberty and ordered society but we don’t talk about banning them (usually.)
I comment a lot on HotAir. And yes, there seems to be a lot of pro gay threads. I comment there as JellyToast. I am not kissing off HotAir. I love the site. They aren’t banning anyone who is against homosexuality or anything. I have been over there defending the Bible and conservatism. And yes, I take some heat, but there are plenty of conservatives over there who are good people and are commenting the same as me. The site gets a lot of hits and I plan on staying until they ban me!
Who said I was an atheist? There are a number of possibilities apart from pure atheism.
But it’s funny that you would dismiss other stories of religious significance as untrue or ‘corrupted’ but accept fully one particular account, that itself is so similar to others that came before it.
Of course, you’d have to be interested in history, mythology, etc and be willing to confront your own beliefs and question whether its the ‘truth’ that motivates your faith or its utility. I actually have great respect for deeply honorable and moral people who are religious. But on an intellectual level, I don’t hold any of these stories to be revelatory and while there is often great wisdom, or at least insight into the human psyche, there is also much barbarity and primitive silliness.
I don’t care if you’re bored by it. And I note the slightly personal tone of your post, rather than actual address anything substantively. At least some of my other adversaries attempted to do this (though most can’t suppress their hostility for more than a few sentences.)
Maybe you misunderstood.. I said “ Unless those rights have been violated “ ....
If society is staying in the parameters of the law, it’s just boo hoo too bad, you lose.
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