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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10 years ago France finally allowed people who love each other to marry
Proud to have marched for equality and freedom
This new right has not taken anything away from anyone. He(It?) made our country gain respect and maintain the diversity of our families
Yes quite the little progressive liberal she is
Can the priest say adultery is sinful? Christ said it.
…because the end of the Church Age draws near.
If someone has not yet trusted Christ, they ought to do it now.
What a nut bag!
Time to eliminate useless departments.
Indeed!
(Interministerial Delegation for the Fight against Racism, Anti-semitism, and Anti-LGBT Hatred (DILCRAH))
Sounds like a fun group
The Frogs are trying to civilize the Wogs already in their country.
They’ll fail.
L
I guess they believe sin exists, why else would this matter?
I thought the wogs start in Calais?
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