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Faithful Priest Accused of Hate Crime for Letter on Homosexuality [Canada]
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Posted on 09/03/2003 11:15:14 AM PDT by Polycarp

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LifeSite Daily News
Tuesday September 2, 2003

Faithful Priest Accused of Hate Crime for Letter on Homosexuality
Politicians Should Take Heed on Implications of Hate Crime Bill C-250

TORONTO, September 2, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The Toronto Star published a 750 word letter on Sunday by Rev. Alphonse de Valk, editor of the Canadian monthly magazine Catholic Insight, concerning the Catholic stand on homosexuality. The paper accepted the letter in response to de Valk's request for an opportunity to respond to the Star's publication last week of a lengthy article by Thunder Bay priest Fr. Scott Gale objecting to the Vatican's recent document on homosexual unions.
See http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2003/aug/03082502.html

In his characteristic, straightforward style, Fr. de Valk served up the teachings of the Church on the subject unapologetically. "The Church is right. The homosexual condition is a disorder, and homosexual acts are grave moral aberrations," he wrote. However, of ten subsequent letters to the Star responding to Rev. de Valk's article, six accused the priest of hate crime.

Despite the fact that Rev. de Valk merely presented Church teaching on the matter, distinguishing between homosexual acts and persons with homosexual inclinations, he was nevertheless accused of hate. "Homosexual activity rages against God's will," he wrote. Quoting the Bible, he explained, "God ordained the institution of marriage (Genesis 1: 27). He intended that it should be a permanent, lifelong commitment between husband and wife (Matthew 19:5-6); and, He ordained that marriage should exist for loving and cherishing one another and for co-creating children who are protected and
nurtured in a family."

In an interview today, Fr. de Valk told LifeSite that the responses to his article in the Toronto Star claiming he violated hate crime law should be a warning to politicians against passing Bill C-250 which seeks to add 'sexual orientation' to hate crime law. "While homosexual activists claim such a law would not silence debate on the issue, they themselves have accused me of hate for nothing more than asserting the Catholic position on the matter."

See Fr. de Valk's full letter to the Toronto Star:
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2003/sep/030902a.html

See one of the responses accusing him of hate crime:
http://torontostar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1& call_pageid=971358637177&c=Article&cid=1062367811193

See several articles on the same-sex unions issue from the September 2003 issue of Catholic Insight at:
http://www.catholicinsight.com/article.html

See response to Fr. Gale article by Msgr. Vincent Foy of Toronto
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2003/sep/030902b.html


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1 posted on 09/03/2003 11:15:14 AM PDT by Polycarp
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To: .45MAN; AAABEST; AKA Elena; al_c; american colleen; Angelus Errare; Antoninus; aposiopetic; ...
Ping. (As usual, if you would like to be added to or removed from my "conservative Catholics" ping list, just send me a FReepmail. Please realize that some of my "ping" posts are long.)
2 posted on 09/03/2003 11:16:41 AM PDT by Polycarp (When a mother can kill her own child, what is left of the West to save?" - Mother Theresa)
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To: Polycarp
I used to say to these things - "Unbelievable."

Now, it is just another, everyday, believable nightmare of the times in which we live.

3 posted on 09/03/2003 11:20:23 AM PDT by SkyPilot
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To: Polycarp
I believe it was David Frum at National Review Online who predicted a couple of months ago this would be the next step. Anyone who speaking out against homosexuality, especially the Catholic church, would be accused of hate crimes.

How long before a person is accused of merely looking like they have a bad thought agains gays?

Pretty soon we will all be like that Twilight Zone episode, walking around "thinking good thoughts" and saying "It's a very good thing you've done."
4 posted on 09/03/2003 11:21:46 AM PDT by gubamyster
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To: Polycarp
Let there be no doubt: they mean to outlaw our Faith.
5 posted on 09/03/2003 11:23:10 AM PDT by B Knotts
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To: Polycarp
We are now racing toward Gomorrhah and slouching toward the catacombs.
6 posted on 09/03/2003 11:28:56 AM PDT by wideawake (God bless our brave soldiers and their Commander in Chief)
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To: Polycarp
The Bible has been rejected by many as hate speech. People want to believe in a god without rules and when they encounter a consequence they simply cry "Where is God?"

My favorite line is from people who say that they can't believe in a god that would allow consequences (pain & suffering for behaviors.) They perfer a god that ignores sinful behavior and then micro-manages consequences, and they want a government that works the same way.

7 posted on 09/03/2003 11:29:02 AM PDT by The Brush
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To: gubamyster
"Anyone who speaking out against homosexuality, especially the Catholic church, would be accused of hate crimes."



They are going to have to lock me up.
8 posted on 09/03/2003 11:30:01 AM PDT by bulldogs
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To: Polycarp
I think the headline is misleading. When I saw that someone was "accused of a hate crime," I assumed that criminal charges had been brought.

But that's not what happened at all. Instead, the priest was "accused," apparently, by six letters to the editor.

9 posted on 09/03/2003 11:30:45 AM PDT by ItsJeff
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To: ItsJeff
Not to worry; I'm sure he and the paper will be fined by some "civil rights commission."
10 posted on 09/03/2003 11:36:02 AM PDT by B Knotts
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To: ItsJeff
I didn't write the headline/title, I just posted it.

However, in Canada, under its current laws, there is a very good chance this priest will indeed be criminally charged.

11 posted on 09/03/2003 11:37:51 AM PDT by Polycarp (When a mother can kill her own child, what is left of the West to save?" - Mother Theresa)
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To: Polycarp
Probably the besst thing to do in this situation is for every parish to preach against homosexuality and let the cops put them in jail. And let the parishioners gather at the jails to sing hymns 24/7.
12 posted on 09/03/2003 11:38:26 AM PDT by TexanToTheCore
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To: ItsJeff
I agree, but people have been criminally penalized just for publishing Bible verses in Canada.
13 posted on 09/03/2003 11:40:25 AM PDT by Sloth ("I feel like I'm taking crazy pills!" -- Jacobim Mugatu, 'Zoolander')
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To: The Brush
"They prefer a god that ignores sinful behavior and then micro-manages consequences, and they want a government that works the same way."

Very well said.

14 posted on 09/03/2003 11:41:22 AM PDT by laotzu
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To: Polycarp
If a faithful priest can be accused of hate crimes for a letter on homosexuality, then please sdd me to you list (that is, if you can abide a Presbyterian thereon:^)

Cordially,

15 posted on 09/03/2003 11:57:24 AM PDT by Diamond
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To: Polycarp
Canada becomes more like Rome under Nero....
No wonder the smart and talented Canadians are all in Hollywood. No wonder Hollywood is such a bunghole of cultural rot.
16 posted on 09/03/2003 11:59:48 AM PDT by .cnI redruM (More Americans 18-49 Watch The Cartoon Network than CNN!!!)
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To: Diamond
Done. (You're not the only Presbyterian on my "Conservative Catholics" ping list ;-)
17 posted on 09/03/2003 12:03:00 PM PDT by Polycarp (When a mother can kill her own child, what is left of the West to save?" - Mother Theresa)
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To: Polycarp; scripter; *Homosexual Agenda; GrandMoM; backhoe; pram; Yehuda; Clint N. Suhks; ...
Bump and ping.

Scripter will be off line occasionally between now and the middle of September. I've agreed to help him out by running his homosexual agenda ping list.

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A simple freepmail is all it takes to subscribe to or unsubscribe from scripter's homosexual agenda ping list. If you wish to be added to the list in scripter's absence, please FReepmail me.

18 posted on 09/03/2003 12:06:50 PM PDT by EdReform (Support Free Republic - Become a Monthly Donor)
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To: SkyPilot
It is a proven neocommunist, left wing strategy. The lefties protest your use of a word or phrase so often and so methodically that it is picked up by the media and academics that the cluster of phrases develops its own label. Thus, any actual or perceived or imagined claim that an individual is/was a communist is met immediately with a counterclaim of "MCCARTHYISM." Such a claim shifts the burden to the person making the original contention and is a complete defense against any hint of comsimp.

The same is true about any criticism of Jews or Israel. The counterclaim is "antisemitism." This is meant to be an absolute defense and puts the orgininal speaker on the defensive.

Today, we have faggitude. Any criticism, real or imagined, of fairies is met with "homophobia" (whatever that means) and shifts the defense to the original speaker. Thus, a suggestion that homosexuality is either a genetic disease or a behavioal disorder is met with "homophobia!" and the burden shifts to the original speaker to prove that not only is he not "homophobic" but that he is pro-tinkerbell.

As I've asked many times, where do the fairies get this clout? They are deviants and perverts and must recruit new members from the ranks of the normal people. We must start using the words "normalphobia" and "normalphobic" to refer to these fairy hissyfits.

19 posted on 09/03/2003 12:06:54 PM PDT by Tacis
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To: bulldogs
In Canada, they will. It's happened before and there is abill before Parliament to ban the Bible as hate speech. Disgusting.
20 posted on 09/03/2003 12:13:19 PM PDT by doc30
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