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Posted on 02/03/2007 6:59:48 AM PST by NYer
They came first for the Communists and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist.
Then they came for the Jews and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew.
Then they came for the trade unionists and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Catholics and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant.
That famous post World War II poem by German pastor Martin Niemoller, is playing out once again today but on a global scale, as the dictatorship of relativism encroaches on traditional morality and by implication traditional religion.
Those who were once fierce foes within Christianity and even within the realm of traditional religion are beginning to recognize the threat to religious freedom being imposed by the growing intolerance for traditional morality. Catholics and Protestants, Jews and Muslims are defending one another's freedom of religion against attacks from the religion of anti-morality which is increasingly finding devotees in government.
The trend could not be more clearly illustrated than with the news this week that the Grand Orange Lodge of Scotland, traditionally known for its mortal conflict with the Catholic Church, has officially backed Catholic leadership on the question of homosexual adoption.
The UK government has informed the Catholic Church in the UK that it will not receive an exemption from Sexual Orientation Regulations which would force the Catholic Church to permit homosexual adoption. Official Catholic teaching states that homosexual adoption does "violence" to children since they would be placed in an environment that is not conducive to their full human development.
Ian Wilson, the Grand Master of the Grand Orange Lodge of Scotland, announced publicly this week the Lodge's support in the matter for the head of the Catholic Church of England and Wales, Cormac Cardinal Murphy O'Connor. "There has to be more tolerance of the views of people of faith, and that includes the Cardinal," Wilson told The Scotsman. "Broadly speaking, the Lodge would take an orthodox, traditional Christian view of this - we see the family as a man and a woman."
The leaders of the Church of England, Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams and Archbishop of York John Sentamu, supported the Catholic position in a letter to British Prime Minister Tony Blair.
Also this week, Britain's Muslim Council the leading UK body representing Islam, issued a statement saying the group "fully supports the principled stand taken by the leaders of the Catholic and Anglican Churches."
The UK's Chief Rabbi Sir Jonathan Sacks, regarded as Judaism's highest authority in the UK, waded into the fray as well. Speaking of the new law he spoke of the need for respect for religion. "Jewish law is unequivocally committed," he said, "to the principle of marriage and the family: the stable association of husband, wife and child. This is at the very core of Jewish spirituality and cannot be compromised."
The queers will not be denied your children in their quest for sexual preferences. Sad that so many have bought the marketing of the most disgusting deviant behavior on the planet.
Ping
***Sad that so many have bought the marketing of the most disgusting deviant behavior on the planet.***
That's correct! We've passed laws that allow our innocents to be handed over to Sodom and Gomorrah.
Sick, troubling, and true...
The liberals excels at Unintended Consequences. It is very possible that, far from destroying Christianity, their continued assault on it may drive its adherents to unsurpassed levels of unity. It would be the ultimate irony if secular humanism reversed the disintegration Luther started 500 years ago, and gelled an ecumenical Christian army that could finish what the Crusades started.
Either abort them or let homos adopt them...boy, the left is on a roll! Its all about the chill'un.
It is only because these religious leaders are well-known and powerful that it doesn't happen to them.
And the way things are going in England, even such eminent men of faith as these may be soon clapped in irons for voicing their opinions and beliefs.
The British civil service is full to the brim with public-school (i.e. private boarding school) boys that grew up in a milieu of buggery and Bolshevism. Now they are inflicting it on everybody else by force.
Let us hope that our English cousins are still capable of rising up against their overlords, and placing hundreds of heads on pikes on London Bridge.
-ccm
There may be something to that. When the gay priders tried to hold an international parade in Jerusalem, Jewish, Christian, and Muslim clergy worked together to stop it.
Blair should be nominated for a Nobel prize for uniting Calvinists and Catholics.
Isn't every day you hear about the Orange Lodge making common cause with the Catholics!
THAT is a "man bites dog" story.
Maybe this all will backfire on the anti-morality crowd.
No, It appears that in the UK laws have been passed that force innocents to be handed over to Sodom and Gomorrah.
Some good lyrics on par with your comment :)
Saxon "Crusader" Lyrics
Crusader 6:33
(Who dares battle the Saracen)
Crusader, crusader, please take me with you
The battle lies far to the east
Crusader, crusader, don't leave me alone
I want to ride out on your quest
I'm waiting, I'm waiting, to stand by your side
To fight with you over the sea
They're calling, they're calling, I have to be there
The holy land has to be free
Fight the good fight
Believe what is right
Crusader, the Lord of the Realm
Fight the good fight
With all your might
Crusader, the Lord of the Realm
We're marching, we're marching, to a land far from home
No one can say who'll return
For Christendom's sake, we'll take our revenge
On the pagans from out of the east
We Christians are coming, with swords held on high
United by faith and the cause
The Saracen heathen will soon taste our steel
Our standards will rise 'cross the land
Fight the good fight
Believe what is right
Crusader, the Lord of the Realm
Fight the good fight
With all your might
Crusader, the Lord of the Realm
To battle, to battle, the Saracen hordes
We follow the warrior king
Onward, ride onward, into the fight
We carry the sign of the cross
Warlords of England, Knights of the Realm
Spilling their blood in the sand
Crusader, crusader, the legend is born
The future will honour your deeds
Fight the good fight
Believe what is right
Crusader, the Lord of the Realm
Fight the good fight
With all your might
Crusader, the Lord of the Realm
(Come Crusader let battle commence)
Fight the good fight
Believe what is right
Crusader, the Lord of the Realm
Crusader, the Lord of the Realm
Fight the good fight
Believe what is right
Crusader, the Lord of the Realm
Crusader, the Lord of the Realm
The Crusades were a valiant experiment, largely responsible for the survival of Christianity during the Dark Ages. We could be living in the Age of the Final Crusade, the one that tests whether Western Civilization deserves to endure.
If Christianity succumbs to its own lethargy, indifference, secular notions of "propriety," and collective guilt over its own success, then it isn't worthy to carry on the name.
True ecumenism.
Dogs and cats ... getting along together!
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