Posted on 09/03/2003 11:15:14 AM PDT by Polycarp
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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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How much, and for how long can these dip wads push, before the parishioners, in utter disgust, gather at the jails with their pitch forks, and free them?
I think you are right, but I wonder if Islam get a free ride?
I agree with your confusion, and find it a source of constant amusement that the libs have built up a whole concept and framework of debate based on a malaprop. Because if we look at the definitions:
homo n, pl homos [NL, Homin-, Homo, genus name, fr. L, man] any of a genus (Homo) of primate mammals that usu. inludes a single recent species (H. sapiens) comprising all surviving and various extinct men
Or, alternately:
hom- or homo- comb form [L, fr. Gk, fr. homos - more at SAME 1 : one and the same : similar : alike (homograph) (homosporous) 2 homologous with a (specified) chemical compound (homogentisic acid)
Combined with:
-phobe n comb form [Gk -phobos fearing] : one fearing or averse to (something specified) (Francophobe)
[Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary, 1979, G. & C. Merriam Company. Springfield, MA)
So we have either:
homophobe : man fear, or fear of man (?), or
homophobe : similar fear, or maybe fear of sameness (?)
Neither of which make a whole lot of sense unless the meaning is twisted into the current version of newspeak the left always tries to use.
As for the time needed for people to become fed up with the left wing persecution of Christians, I think there is already a backlash developing and it could take the form of civil disobediance or perhaps a clarification of the first amendment. I am really tired of being hammered by these ignorant tyrants.
Amen brother. I can't add anything to that, except to say that I do not think Jesus Christ ever wanted a bunch of pacifist followers, who do nothing, while the heathen rape and murder their wives and children. This has not happened here yet. The key word is YET. It does, however, happen in other parts of the world.
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2001/aug/01082001.html "In February 2000, the Ontario Human Rights Commission found Brockie guilty of discrimination and fined him $5,000 for refusing a printing job from a homosexual activist organization."
This is from a Google search for canada billboard homosexual
http://www.users.mis.net/~dcgay/hatecrime.htm "The fact of the matter is that it is already happening here. Government officials in Staten Island called the word of God "hate-speech" and forced a billboard owner to cover up a Bible quote about homosexuality. One cannot buy ads or use quotes from Bible verses, which condemn the practice of homosexuality on billboards, anywhere in New York City."
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