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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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To: SkyPilot
used to say to these things - "Unbelievable."
Now, it is just another, everyday, believable nightmare of the times in which we live. >>>

Ditto.
41 posted on 09/04/2003 9:29:21 PM PDT by Coleus (God is Pro Life and Straight & gave us an innate predisposition for self-preservation and protection)
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To: EdReform; 2ndMostConservativeBrdMember; afraidfortherepublic; Alas; al_c; american colleen; ...
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42 posted on 09/04/2003 9:30:19 PM PDT by Coleus (God is Pro Life and Straight & gave us an innate predisposition for self-preservation and protection)
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To: SkyPilot
Ditto -- it is getting so bad I am afraid to turn on the news in the morning to see the latest abomination. God help our children!!!
43 posted on 09/04/2003 10:20:48 PM PDT by victim soul
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To: Coleus
Thank you so much for the heads up!
44 posted on 09/04/2003 10:42:57 PM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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To: TexanToTheCore
And let the parishioners gather at the jails to sing hymns 24/7.

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?

45 posted on 09/04/2003 10:55:57 PM PDT by Mark17
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To: lady lawyer
There is no question but that the left will not be satisfied until they completely silence traditional religious people.

I think you are right, but I wonder if Islam get a free ride?

46 posted on 09/04/2003 11:00:06 PM PDT by Mark17
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To: gubamyster
How long until gulags and concentration camps for the religious?
47 posted on 09/05/2003 4:26:11 AM PDT by Conservative til I die (They say anti-Catholicism is the thinking man's anti-Semitism; that's an insult to thinking men)
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To: Polycarp
Liberals would love to make criticism of homosexuality a "hate crime" in America too.
48 posted on 09/05/2003 4:28:04 AM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
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To: Tacis
...homophobia" (whatever that means)

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.

49 posted on 09/05/2003 6:10:39 AM PDT by chimera
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To: Mark17
Well, the pitchfork option did occur to me, but I toned it down for my first reply. Since the cat is out of the bag, how about we add torches to the pitchforks?

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.

50 posted on 09/05/2003 8:13:02 AM PDT by TexanToTheCore
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To: TexanToTheCore
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.

52 posted on 09/05/2003 9:24:08 AM PDT by Mark17
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To: FastEddy
This is from a Google for canada printer homosexual

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."

53 posted on 09/05/2003 10:52:07 AM PDT by jimt
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