Posted on 08/03/2003 3:53:01 PM PDT by AFA-Michigan
Clergy and bishops who distribute the Vatican's latest publication describing homosexual activity as "evil" could face prosecution under incitement to hatred legislation.
The Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) has warned that the language in the 12-page booklet is so strong it could be interpreted as being in breach of the Act.
Published by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, it states that Catholics have a duty to oppose the introduction and operation of legislation recognising same-sex unions. It identifies politicians as having a duty to vote against any such moves.
According to the document, Catholic teaching states that while homosexuals should be treated with "respect, compassion and sensitivity", homosexuality was "objectively disordered".
"Those who would move from tolerance to the legitimisation of specific rights for cohabiting homosexual persons need to be reminded that the approval or legalisation of evil is something far different from the toleration of evil," it states.
It also claims that allowing children to be adopted into same-sex unions would mean "doing violence to these children". This would place them "in an environment that is not conducive to their full human development".
Ms. Aisling Reidy, director of the ICCL, warned yesterday that the statement could be in violation of the 1989 Incitement to Hatred Act. Those convicted under the Act can face jail terms of up to six months.
"The document itself may not violate the Act, but if you were to use the document to say that gays are evil, it is likely to give rise to hatred, which is against the Act," according to Ms Reidy. "The wording is very strong and certainly goes against the spirit of the legislation."
Under the Act literature which is threatening, abusive or insulting, linked with the intent of stirring up hatred, is illegal.
Barring a constitutional amendment, why don't not let each state decide?
This is the province of the legislatures--not the courts.
And not even the pro-sodomy majority didn't buy the "equal protection" crap slung by gay activists in the Lawrence decision. Only the increasngly senile Sandra Day O'Connor bit on that bit o' legal legerdemain sucker bait.
The only way to buy into the "equal protection" hogwash is to buy into the silly fiction that there are more genders than two: male and female.
HAHAHAHAHA rigggghhhhhtttt watch the right just lay down over here and let the ACLU walk all over them buisness as usual unless they right has grown a set of gonads! in the past six months
The right has pandered to so many in this country and others it has to duck to get to their car!
Id love to see a backlash id help even but it would never happen like i said unless gonads have been grown recently!
They should just change its name to a more truthful title:
I agree that we have a responsibity to do that, but I'm not too optimistic that it will do any good. Satan's power is rising in America because of her rejection of God, and while that is not true for all of us, we have obviously not done enough to counter it. Our children are being sacrificed daily either in abortion clinics or on the altar of political correctness. Satan is winning victory after victory in our courts while God's people are being driven into an oppressed servitude. Can we turn the tide? I don't know. We have to continue to do all we know to do, pray fervently, then put it in God's hands by faith. We are living in extraordinary times and the spritual war is escalating.
If there are churches that keep silent in the face of such abominations, or worse, ordain and appoint them to positions of leadership as is now happening in the Episcopal church, then it should cause a division. Perhaps God is drawing a line in the sand so to speak, and it is up to us to choose whom we will serve....God or an apostate church. To me the choice is clear although I don't know what that will mean for me in terms of how I will worship since I am an Episcoplaian, but I am a Christian first and will have to trust God's guidance. It is an uncomfortable place to be nevertheless.
Amen to that, and not only for this generation, but for those who inherit the curse upon the land it will bring if it is legislated into societal acceptablity.
I don't want to suffer any more than the next Catholic, but better to suffer for the sake of the Truth than to burn a pinch of incense at Nero's altar.
I see these warnings of "possible hate crimes" as a mark of fear on the part of the humanistic republics of the world. They think the threat of the guillotine will silence the Vendée, so they're rattling the blade. But Robespierre knows his time is almost up!
If the forces of evil are running scared from the Church at this point in the game, wait until they see the power of the persecuted Church.
So, bring it on, parliaments! Do your worst, senators! Pass your foolish laws, legalize your perverted desires -- the Church of Christ and her Marian Pope will still be there to fling the law of Nature and Nature's God right back in your haughty faces!
This is a war we cannot lose. We might not all see its end -- indeed, I suspect some of us may end our days roasting on a grill like St. Lawrence -- but the Army of the Cross will not only survive, it will conquer. The last time they tried to wipe us out the whole of Europe ended up under the banner of Christ; the next time Christendom triumphs, it will spell the end of the Republic of Man and his false gods of liberté, egalité et fraternité forever.
We're not being targeted for any sort of hatred on our part. It's the love of Christ they cannot abide -- a love so real it refuses to call evil good or good evil. It is that kind of love that they call a crime -- the crime of Truth.
But the Truth will win in the end. Long live Lovecrime!
That's what it really comes down to, but I don't think you can draw such clear denominational lines, for there are those within all denominations who are true believers and those who are just nominal believers, which is the same as being not a believer at all I think. And then there are the ignorant, those who believe, but really don't know what it is they believe because they have failed to study the scriptures. Still, I believe a greater responsibility will fall on the shepherds who fail to tend the flock in accordance with God's word.
"Study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. " (2 Tim. 2:15)
"Woe to the shepherds who are destroying and scattering the sheep of My pasture!" declares the LORD. Therefore thus says the LORD God of Israel concerning the shepherds who are tending My people: "You have scattered My flock and driven them away, and have not attended to them; behold, I am about to attend to you for the evil of your deeds," declares the LORD. (Jer. 23:1-2)
Shall we abolish state legislatures while we're at it?
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