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French Government Cracks Down on Priest Who Said Homosexual Relations are Sinful
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Posted on 04/03/2024 1:55:32 PM PDT by nickcarraway

Father Raffray is a well-known priest who has a growing apostolate on the internet and social media aimed especially at young French-speaking people.

The French government has initiated a series of legal measures against Father Matthieu Raffray for calling homosexual relations sinful and for describing homosexuality as a “weakness.”

On March 15, the priest of the Institute of the Good Shepherd — created in 2006 in Rome for “the defense and dissemination of Catholic Tradition in all its forms,” according to the website of this society of apostolic life — posted a video on Instagram in which he encouraged the faithful to fight against their weaknesses.

Father Raffray commented that each person has his or her own weapons with which to fight, but the devil convinces people that the fight “is too hard” and therefore it’s useless to resist.

The video was denounced by various LGBT lobby groups, and Aurore Bergé, government minister for equality between women and men and the fight against discrimination, called the priest’s statements “unacceptable.”

Bergé wrote on X that she has asked the Interministerial Delegation for the Fight against Racism, Anti-semitism, and Anti-LGBT Hatred (DILCRAH) to report the alleged infraction on the basis of Article 40 of the penal code to the public prosecutor. “In the face of hatred I’m not going to let anything get by, whatever it may be,” she added.

DILCRAH in turn stated on X that it received the minister’s message and has informed “the prosecutor of the homophobic comments made by Mr. Raffray on social media. So-called ‘conversion therapy’ has been illegal since 2022. Talking about homosexuality as a weakness is shameful.”

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1 posted on 04/03/2024 1:55:32 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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I imagine the 12% of their population that is Muslim would be a lot harsher in their statements.

why doesn’t French globohomo start their work there?


2 posted on 04/03/2024 1:58:45 PM PDT by PGR88
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“In the face of hatred I’m not going to let anything get by, whatever it may be,” she added.

Cool, lady! Now take that crap to the nearest mosque Imam!

3 posted on 04/03/2024 1:59:36 PM PDT by LittleBillyInfidel (This tagline has been formatted to fit the screen. Some content has been edited.)
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To: nickcarraway

There is no “hate statement” by any religion that cannot be exceeded by an Imam hourly. And, surprisingly, nothing is done.

Yet.


4 posted on 04/03/2024 1:59:53 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: nickcarraway

Woe be to those that call evil good and good evil.


5 posted on 04/03/2024 2:01:23 PM PDT by taxcontrol (The choice is clear - either live as a slave on your knees or die as a free citizen on your feet.)
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To: Da Coyote

Muslims don’t tend to make public statements on such things.


6 posted on 04/03/2024 2:01:27 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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The drive to eliminate Christianity is ever expanding.


7 posted on 04/03/2024 2:01:57 PM PDT by I want the USA back (Delusionary people should not be given power over normal people.)
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To: nickcarraway

“Cracks down,” eh? Today a fine, maybe a job loss. Tomorrow, a gulag.

We’ve seen this movie before. Ad nauseam.


8 posted on 04/03/2024 2:04:53 PM PDT by xoxox
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Yep, they’re way to clever for that.


9 posted on 04/03/2024 2:05:19 PM PDT by xoxox
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Yes.


10 posted on 04/03/2024 2:08:48 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

How long before Western governments either outlaw the Bible or force the re-writing or removal of “offensive” passages. Starting with online scripture would easiest, then door to door collection of “illegal” Bibles by the Bible police.

Don’t think it won’t ultimately happen here?


11 posted on 04/03/2024 2:10:24 PM PDT by Sir Bangaz Cracka (Poor 'lil Travon bees slamming dat white cracka'a head into dat sidewalk causin he be scared)
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To: LittleBillyInfidel

How ironic that it was Charles “The Hammer” Martel who kept the Muslims from coming up from Spain to invade France, and now the French are paving the way for Christianity to be criminalized and Islam to rise without a fight.


12 posted on 04/03/2024 2:16:41 PM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear (What is left around which to circle the wagons?action )
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[Aurore Bergé, government minister for equality between women and men and the fight against discrimination, called the priest’s statements “unacceptable.”]


13 posted on 04/03/2024 2:27:26 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: nickcarraway

So the government is now telling you what to believe


14 posted on 04/03/2024 2:29:13 PM PDT by ronnie raygun
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This is the same bunch that enacted the Digital Services Act...


15 posted on 04/03/2024 2:29:44 PM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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Muslims don’t tend to make public statements on such things.

We both know why!

Bacha bāzī (Persian: بچه بازی, lit. 'boy play') is a practice in which men (sometimes called bacha baz) buy and keep adolescent boys (sometimes called dancing boys) for entertainment and sex. Bacha bazi - Wikipedia

Oddly acceptable but if it was a grown man it would be punished by a most unpleasant death.

16 posted on 04/03/2024 2:32:12 PM PDT by cpdiii (cane cutter-deckhand-oilfield roughneck-drilling fluids tech-geologist-pilot-instructor-pharmacist)
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Better to live and speak in such a way as to welcome judgment by God rather than by men (and women).


17 posted on 04/03/2024 2:34:23 PM PDT by Tudorfly (All things are possible within the will of God.)
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7 verses of Scripture agree with him.


18 posted on 04/03/2024 2:40:49 PM PDT by From The Deer Stand (Mply)
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Biden to transvestites:
You are made in the image of God.

19 posted on 04/03/2024 2:43:19 PM PDT by linMcHlp
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Muslims don’t tend to make public statements on such things.

We both know why!

Bacha bāzī (Persian: بچه بازی, lit. 'boy play') is a practice in which men (sometimes called bacha baz) buy and keep adolescent boys (sometimes called dancing boys) for entertainment and sex.

Oddly acceptable but if it was a grown man it would be punished by a most unpleasant death.

20 posted on 04/03/2024 2:50:19 PM PDT by cpdiii (cane cutter-deckhand-oilfield roughneck-drilling fluids tech-geologist-pilot-instructor-pharmacist)
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