Posted on 07/08/2011 12:31:34 PM PDT by wagglebee
NEW YORK, July 8, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) - American Christians may one day find themselves facing legal penalties simply for believing marriage can only exist between a man and a woman, a fate already suffered by believers in other countries, said the leader of America’s most influential Catholic pulpit this week.
Archbishop Timothy Dolan of New York reflected on his blog Thursday on the recent legalization of gay “marriage” in New York, and what repercussions true marriage supporters can expect in the future.
He called it “haunting” that the marriage bill became law on the day Catholics celebrate the feast of the Birth of John the Baptist, “whom King Herod would behead because the saint dared to defend the God-given truth about marriage.”
“If the experience of those few other states and countries where this is already law is any indication, the churches, and believers, will soon be harassed, threatened, and hauled into court for their conviction that marriage is between one man, one woman, forever, bringing children into the world,” wrote the archbishop.
Christians in the UK, Canada, and elsewhere have lost their jobs, been dragged through lengthy “human rights” proceedings, and faced steep fines for questioning the dangerous homosexual lifestyle, declining to facilitate gay “marriages,” or even failing to acknowledge “gay pride” events.
Dolan pointed out that editorials nationwide have been calling for an end to the Catholic Church’s religious liberties as a growing percentage of Americans consider defending true marriage a form of discrimination against homosexuals. The archbishop insisted the Church’s position was “never anti-gay.”
“As I replied recently to a reporter who asked if I had any message to the gay community, ‘Yes: I love you. Each morning I pray with and for you and your true happiness and well-being,’” he recalled.
Meanwhile, he says, the true aggressors have proven to be the gay “marriage” lobby.
“As one respected columnist has observed, the problem is not homophobia but theophobia — a hatred by some of God, faith, religion, and the Church,” he said.
Although Dolan said his brother bishops in New York were “particularly prophetic” in acknowledging an uphill battle on the marriage issue, Dolan said Christians would not back down on the truth.
“Like St. Thomas More, we’re willing to take the heat and even lose our head from following a conscience properly formed by God’s revelation and the teaching of His Church, even if it is politically incorrect, and clashes with the King’s demands to re-define marriage,” he said.
Read Archbishop Dolan’s full post here.
I do not what hole in the ground most people have their head stuck in but people are already being punished by the state for holding beliefs against gay marriage or against the views the left-wing has on homosexuality. People have been fired from jobs for not holding left-wing beliefs, businesses have been punished by Courts for being against left-wing views on homosexuality as well. So why in the world would anyone think that the Church will end up any different being the way many on the left hate Christianity?
It amazes that anyone can doubt the 100% fascist agenda of the left-wing homosexual movement. They will not accept any freedom of expression on this issue nor will they ever have tolerance for Christianity or traditional values. Those who do not start fighting back on this issue full force are setting our children up to be under the rule of a evil and perverse fascist movement.
“The archbishop insisted the Church’s position was “never anti-gay.””
This is why they fail. There is no such thing as a state of “being gay”. Gay is a desire for abnormal destructive behavior. Being anti-gay is good.
Yep, part of plot to outlaw Christianity and morality.
The Government can pass all the laws they want. Perverts will always be perverts.
Jimbo, they teach gay marriage in public skool in CT. And ya can’t sign a waiver to get your kid excused from the class.
They want us to be more tolerant than they are
Brought to you by the Lavender Mafia using Gaystapo tactics.
Orwell was off by a few years.
Unjustified Government involvement in marriage needs to be ended.
25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.
26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as “normal, natural, healthy.” Skousen claimed Communists sought to encourage the practice of masturbation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Naked_Communist
Communist goals stated in 1958 and guess whom you can find behind the movement (bad choice of words...) Yep Communist who want to take down the US.
Evil is on the March speak out!
There’s been talk about jailing ‘global warming deniers’ as well. The left wants facism.
Our separation of Church and State PROHIBITS the government from defining what is or is not a “sin”.
The US Government is PROHIBITED from requiring any church to celebrate homosexuality.
Our separation of Church and State PROHIBITS the government from defining what is or is not a “sin”.
The US Government is PROHIBITED from requiring any church to celebrate homosexuality.
If the Lord doesn’t return soon,
this will indeed be settled in the streets.
He has gotten away with everything else he has wanted to do. What’s a few million citizens in gulags?
The Amish are exempt from Social Security because their religion is against insurance, can I be exempt because my religion is against gay marriage?
What is social justice anyway?
There are socialists who use the phrase to defend Marxist redistribution of wealth and property but it is against the 10 commandments to covet thy neighbor’s holdings.
A bunch of commies putting their nose under the tent is what happened.
Unfortunately, I live in Connecticut (Litchfield county) and so I'm aware of this even though my son graduated from public school 15 years ago. The secularization of the public schools has been going on a long time but it wasn't so bad, then. Pushing the 'gay' agenda in the public schools is just the latest step toward totalitarianism for the left. If I had a school-age child, today, I would work an extra job to pay for his education in a private, preferably Christian, school. This kind of crap is another reason why my son is hell-bent to leave Connecticut (he wants to move to Texas) and my wife and I are starting to seriously consider uprooting and going south (North or South Carolina, probably). Living in state dominated by leftists is getting too hard (and too expensive) to tolerate much longer.
“All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.” (Edmund Burke)
This about covers it.
And the traditional family.
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