Posted on 11/21/2002 4:58:51 PM PST by Polycarp
When did spreading the Gospel become harassment?
And that IS "the bottom line."
Go back home to DU.
There are Catholics (like myself) who find they have much more in common with fundamentalist Christians than many Catholics who are "Catholic in name only" and openly declare their dissent from the Church on issues such as homosexuality.
Published by Centre Daily Times, Friday, June 2, 2000
Homosexual behavior increases risk of AIDSby Brian J. Kopp, DPM Parental warning: The following "My View" contains graphic medical terminology about sexual activities that may not be suitable for younger readers. AIDS research by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control reported that the typical homosexual interviewed claimed to have had more than 500 different sexual partners in a lifetime. Considered by themselves, the AIDS victims in this study averaged more than 1,100 lifetime sexual partners. Some reported as many as 20,000. Studies reported by A-P. Bell, M.S. Weinberg and S.K. Hammersmith in the book "Sexual Preference" (Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 1981) indicated that only 3 percent of homosexuals had fewer than 10 lifetime sexual partners. Only about 2 percent could be classified as either monogamous or semi-monogamous (from "Homosexuality and Civil Rights," Tony Marco, 1992). To the present time, 75 to 85 percent of AIDS cases reported are related to homosexual activity, promiscuous heterosexual sex and IV drug abuse. AIDS stubbornly refuses to spread into the population in general, even 20 years after its discovery, despite dire warnings to the contrary. These diseases are acquired directly through the sexual behavior homosexual activists are asking Americans to legally endorse and protect. Yet, as professor Jerome Lejeune of Descartes University, Paris, says of AIDS: "Only God can truly pardon the one who violates His laws; man pardons at times; Nature never pardons at all: She is not a person." The brutal consequences of attempting to break the natural law are not bigoted or hateful, nor are those, like Dr. Laura, Cal Thomas or Gary Morella, who try to point out the dangers and simple truths. We are seeing the natural consequences of violating nature's laws now. They are also a warning to prevent the ultimate eternal consequences. How many will ignore that warning and continue to call the messenger a bigot and continue to shake their fist at God? How many will heed that warning of a loving Father, ready to forgive and reconcile His prodigal children? |
Yes, I called names. (Sometimes such is necessary. See http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/791782/posts">Uncharitable? Divisive? Strident? [PRIDEFUL???]: Recovering the Art of Christian Polemics )
Yet I must remind you that you made the first and most grave insult by comparing the virtuous acts of this martyr to the debased and self-destructive acts of Shepard.
You can think all you want, but theory doesn't trump facts. And the fact is, some of them were saying the woman got what she deserved.
Belloc often said that the mark of our age will not in the end be promiscuous sex (which will pass) but the barbarity and cruelty of the acts of men in general.
The new age of Christian Martyrs was ushered in during the last 100 years and is not over but only beginning.
There is a difference between turning the other cheek and being a pacifist in the face of attack.
See Uncharitable? Divisive? Strident? [PRIDEFUL???]: Recovering the Art of Christian Polemics
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