Posted on 09/05/2014 11:22:22 PM PDT by GonzoII
You don’t honor a saint by encouraging a sin.No doubt there have been homosexual persons marching down Fifth Avenue every year in the St. Patrick’s Day parade. There was never any ban on their participation; there was no test of sexual orientation for marchers. But next year the parade in New York will feature something new: a group of avowed homosexuals carrying a banner, promoting same-sex unions, supporting the gay lifestyle.
Next year there will be only one story-line of interest to the reporters who cover the annual parade in the world’s media capital: the triumph of the gay activists. Photographers will be competing for the one “money” shot: the picture of the contingent from OUT@NBCUniversal marching past the reviewing stand at St. Patrick’s Cathedral, under the benign smile of Cardinal Timothy Dolan.
And the media will be right to concentrate on that story line, because this is a significant advance for homosexual activists, a significant retreat for the Catholic Church. A generation ago, the late Cardinal John O’Connor said that it would be impossible to include proponents of homosexuality in a Catholic event. Now they will be included—and although the parade’s sponsors, the St. Patrick’s Day Parade Committee*, made that crucial change in policy, it is difficult to believe that they made their decision without sounding out the leaders of the New York archdiocese.
Has Catholic teaching changed, then, to allow this accommodation? Pope Francis, questioned about homosexuality, famously replied, “Who am I to judge?” But in resisting demands from gay-activist groups to be included in the parade, the New York archdiocese was not judging homosexuals. It was simply observing that it would be absurd to include, in an event honoring a saint, a group dedicated to public acceptance of a moral disorder.
(Excerpt) Read more at catholicculture.org ...
For the Son of man shall come ... and then will he render to every man according to his works.
How is the parade financed? There in lies what is policy.
“For the Son of man shall come ... and then will he render to every man according to his works.”
Hmmmm - sobering - for some anyway!
St Patrick drove the snakes OUT of Ireland - now we honor the “snakes” in parades?
Good video just out from Michael Voris on Cardinal Dolan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0P7HXozdBns
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