Excellent article. Good find.
Gay priests blush and swoon whenever they read Biblical passages referring to "Thy rod and They staff."
The Gay Marriage Debate," an extended exchange I had (on National Review Online and in a number of other venues) in the summer of 2001 with Andrew Sullivan and Jonathan Rauch, the two most prominent conservative advocates of gay marriage Rauch is now bloviating in the pages of "Crisis," having been invited by Deal Hudson, the editor, (as but one of a half dozen or so freaks, cranks and oddballs)to explain what they think about Christianity.
Even Christopher Hitchens has been asked what his impressions of Christianity are.
Anybody got a cheap cave for sale? I have had it....
Of course, it is true that powerful conservative bishops, who were in no way part of a homosexual subculture, played a critical role in covering up the abuse. They bear responsibility for their actions, yet their cover-up was itself motivated by their knowledge of the size and significance of the problem Kurtz puts the cart before the horse. The problem would have been defused long before it grew to a dangerous size and significance if it had not been covered up.
On this point, Kurtz's entire argument collapses into the trivial conclusion that an institution that does not police itself will be subverted.
http://www.epa.gov/opperspd/futures/millenni/MILL12.TXT
Yes, that's a taxpayer-funded site....
1.4.2 Novel policies that could lead to the Vatican's acceptance of contraception without limit:
- Remove Holy See from the United Nations on grounds that it is not really a country and give it the same status as the World Council of Churches.
- Promotion of contraceptive that is accompanied with strong dissemination of moral values.
- Separate personal religious beliefs from personal choices as to the use of contraceptives.
- Theological doctrine developed by U.S. Catholic Bishops in support of sustainable development (of Government Statements at UNCED 1992).
- New international convention of religious leaders - Vatican III - with supporting papal encyclical letter - 1995.
- Elect a non-European Pope.
- Schism
- It is not practical.
- Create philosophical shift among powerful within the Roman Catholic Church.
- Policies that focus on responsabilization of woman to make choices.
- Only decline of organized religion is likely to affect the situation.
- Allow priests and nuns to marry and pay for the raising of children.
- Reconsideration of the theology of St. Thomas Aquinas - especially the discarding of the Thomastic view of "natural law" as it applied to human sexuality. Christ said nothing whatsoever about human sexuality. Separate the notion of procreation as the only "natural end" from that of enjoyment.
- Try to influence Vatican that some kinds of contraceptions could possibly be acceptable-not"chemical" and for women contraception but "mechanical" and for men (condoms)contraception.
I know it is true, yet I still find it hard to believe that Bishops let a queer culture become established within the AmChurch. What do our Bishops believe in?
Seriously, I am not joking. I do NOT know what they believe...