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We must be sensitive toward persons of colour, persons of orientation and persons of gender, but we can be sneeringly contemptuous of persons of faith. The accelerating anti-Christian hatred in this society is escalating, and we have been silent and accepting for too long.

The Church has done bad things but, even non-believers have to acknowledge that Western society is built on Christian foundations.

Paul wrote in his Second Epistle to Timothy: “In the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers ... Heady, high-minded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God ... Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof.”

“A form of godliness” is a good way of putting it: You elevate your pleasures [i.e. homosexuality, free sex] and their attendant paraphernalia — , condoms, abortion clinics — into a new creed of tolerance and diversity that eventually supplants Christian morality. On the matter of AIDS and homophobia, the gay crowd has a good slogan: “Silence = acceptance.” We should start screaming at the top of our lungs, and even then I do not know if it will help.