You cannot take children to this parade.
When the smoke clears after all of this cultural destruction, it will be common knowledge that one cannot teach children about sexuality, nor expose them to it, before they reach the age of puberty without damaging their sensibility and their sexual development.
And to expose them to deviant sexual behavior and imagery is worse for the very reasons stated.
To explain to them what the banner means, is doing so. To attend the parade with kids is exposing them, and it is an endorsement, which is a bad spot from which to be teaching them about this deviancy.
The Catholic position, in history, tradition, and the bible from where Catechetical teaching comes, is that homosexuals are god’s children, that we do not judge them, rather we acknowledge their suffering, and they are certainly welcome in the Church, and not excommunicated.
And there is no position on whether this is an innate or learned tendency.
But the behavior is sinful, and therefore not to be endorsed, nor taught to children as a situation absent of morality.
If anyone cares to refute this, and say that it is impossible to raise children now without exposing them to sex prematurely, or deviant sex, including pornography, I refer them to Matthew 18:6, and tell them to just forget it and prepare an answer to God for when they meet Him.
I am surprised that the Ancient order of Hibernians want to close up shop after 150 years of facing the enemy with valor and quit like this.
It seems that that is what they are doing.
Am not surprised that the USCCB and C Dolan would join in, though it is so wrong it’s beyond getting mad at.
God’s children.
(behaving badly)
Well we gave up the beer and now we are giving up the parade-not up to our standards.
Am not surprised that the USCCB and C Dolan would join in, though it is so wrong it’s beyond getting mad at.
The USCCB and C Dolan are not doing this in a vacuum but with the implicit approval of the Pope. I’m sure C Dolan checked in w/the Vatican first before saying anything about the parade and gay participation in it. This fits right in with this Pope’s social justice background that he has brought right with him into the Vatican. St. Patrick drove the snakes out of Ireland, and now they are slithering in through the back door (think about that) once again via the parades.
I thought the AOH once threatened to cancel the parade if they were ordered to permit a homosexual group to march under their own banner. This news stinks on so many levels.