Posted on 10/04/2005 12:25:22 PM PDT by GratianGasparri
Of Canons & Culture Canada, Homosexuality and Children
Pete Vere
“Daddy,” my four-year-old asked, “why are those two men kissing like you and Mommy?”
While I initially hoped to avoid mentioning homosexuality in this month’s column, the question left me stunned. It was Saturday afternoon. My daughter and I were enjoying the public playground down the street. We were not sitting around watching Gerry Springer, MTV, or Dan Blather covering a joint NARAL-DNC convention. Just a father pushing his daughter on a swing and catching her at the end of the slide. I look forward to this family time each week.
Now the answer to my daughter’s question is obvious: these two homosexuals were not kissing like Mommy and Daddy. Even the most confused and careless of storks steers clear of the former, whereas my four-year-old owes her existence to the latter. Of course she is innocent of this truth, and despite the shock this may cause sex indoctrination...er...education experts, her naivety is entirely appropriate for one her age. Yet even at four my daughter recognizes something unnatural about two men kissing. I’m not so sure about most sex education experts.
The liberal Canadian establishment reverences homosexuality with a passion they once reserved for abortion. For example, Bryan Pinn and Bill Dalrymple are two Canadian men. Best friends for 22 years, they each claim to be heterosexual. Thus it surprised friends and family when Bryan and Bill announced their impending marriage for, to quote the report in Agence France Presse, the "significant tax implications.” “The [law] did not specify that the couple had to be gay,” the story notes.
The reaction of Canada’s homosexual lobby was predictable. “It makes a mockery out of marriage,” one homosexual activist complained. Although you may find this difficult to believe, the activist was reportedly expressing outrage and not satire. Other homosexual activists followed through with their ritual accusations of homophobia, at which point Pinn and Dalrumple called off the wedding. In Canada, “homophobia” has replaced “Jesus” as the name before which every knee shall bend and every tongue confess.
Coincidentally, I had just finished reading This Side of Jordan when I came across Pinn and Dalrumple’s allegedly homophobic wedding. This Side of Jordan is Bill Kassel’s latest novel and it addresses the topic of homosexuality from an orthodox Catholic perspective. Although a tad sermonizing at times, I found the novel highly entertaining. In my somewhat cantankerous opinion, the book’s exchange between two fictional priests catches the essence of the word homophobia :
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“I frankly think the biggest problem the Church faces right now is homophobia,” states Lowell Walton, a progressive pastor who eschews the title Father.
“Homophobia, Lowell?” replies Fr. Karl Muller, the protagonist and a champion of Catholic orthodoxy. “An even bigger problem may be homophobiaphobia—the fear of being called homophobic. I think it’s crippling our ability to discern truth from falsehood.”
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In Canada, it is also crippling out ability to preserve our children’s innocence. For how do we teach our children to discern truth from falsehood when in our society none dare speak against the love that dares not speak its name in other societies? This question was the topic of conversation this past weekend when John O’Brien, John Pacheco and I met for coffee.
Our American readers may recognize John O’Brien as the son of Catholic novelist Michael O’Brien. Here in Canada, where many Catholic schools have become defacto public schools since accepting public funding, the younger O’Brien is a leading proponent of private Catholic education. As the principal of Wayside Academy (www.waysideacademy.ca), he saw this private Catholic academy in expand from a grade school to include a high-school as well.
John O’Brien believes that private Catholic education is the means for preserving our children’s innocence. Yet it is not just about religion, for O’Brien also believes private Catholic education is the best means for preparing our children to become productive citizens. After all, a child not obsessed with sex can focus on such novel subjects as reading, writing and arithmetic.
O’Brien is presently helping John Pacheco establish a sister grade school here in Ottawa. The name of the school is Maryvale Academy (www.MaryvaleAcademy.ca) and its first class of thirty-five students is now underway. Maryvale operates on a shoe-string budget. Pacheco spends most of his spare time these days looking and praying for donors. “I think we just may break even this year,” he shared during our conversation. He and the other founding parents have already dug deep into their own pockets, while Maryvale’s teaching staff have agreed to salaries that are less than half of what their public school counterparts bring home. Yet given the immorality corrupting Canada’s social and cultural institutions, this is the sacrifice we must make to preserve our children’s innocence.
ping!
Three words you never thought you'd see together.
Son, those are very sick people.
Son, they are an abomination and carry diseases and are going to hell.
For this kind of behavior, there is no choice but to vote with the feet. And recognize that the schools will expose this child to homosexuality in the kindergarten grade so its time for daddy to move to another locale or do some programming of his own at home.
But, of course, they can avoid hell if they repent and turn away from their sin.
That's what I mean by repent. Thx for the clarification.
Only if they choose and most don't choose wisely.
Aw, he's from Canada. That makes me happy. It always makes me happy to hear about/from a conservative/Christian from other countries because I figure non-U.S. countries are going down-hill faster than the United State - which makes me sad.
I'll put my cynicism aside and say : Freedom, Justice, and Righteousness must grow, EVERYWHERE!
Canada needs all the conservatives it can get. o_o Hai.
Right...Hell is forever. We need to pray for those who don't yet see the Way. I have friends who have children that are homosexuals (I imagine we all do) and I worry about them.
This idea that they cannot turn from their sin is baloney. But they have to choose Jesus and the Holy Spirit will empower them to change.
Otherwise, they are lost forever.
Agreed. They can turn away from that lifestyle but first they turn to Christ and then they need to get away from the media ( which condones homo stuff ) and old friends who will pressure them not to change.
It is as close to a drug addiction as I can imagine. Those people need to change their entire community, get new, supportive friends...and stay away from anyone that tries to pull them back into their sin.
The media won't help because they are secular-humanists/atheists. They don't believe sin exists. They believe that we believers in God invented sin so we can discriminate against non-believers.
Satan is a slick operator, but he knows nothing about love and prayer.
Worst thing the Church ever did in Canada was to accept government funding. They forgot that NOTHING comes for free.
I think there is a difference between someone with homosexual passions who struggles to live a Christian life, and the majority of homosexuals who have made their sexual activity their personal identity.
Gay Pride is a mortal sin. Why don't they get a little Gay Humility.
God rebukes the proud and gives grace to the humble. James 4:6
Double ping(homosexual agenda + moral absolutes)
Thanks - will be a-pinging tomorrow!
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