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Dissident priest Fr. James Martin wants you to celebrate LGBT ‘pride month’
LifeSite News ^ | June 3, 2021 | Doug Mainwaring

Posted on 06/03/2021 8:06:14 PM PDT by ebb tide

Dissident priest Fr. James Martin wants you to celebrate LGBT ‘pride month’

It’s especially important for churches to celebrate ‘pride,’ the Jesuit said.

June 3, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – Fr. James Martin, S.J., the most outspoken force within U.S. Catholicism for the normalization of homosexuality and transgenderism within the Church, wants you to know that he thinks all Catholics should celebrate “pride month.”

In a video tweet posted on the second day of this year’s so-dubbed “pride month,” Martin claimed that it’s “a celebration of the human dignity of a group of people who have been for so long treated like dirt.” 

The Jesuit appears oblivious to the fact that far from being “treated like dirt,” June is a month-long orgy of adulation for self-identified homosexual and transgender individuals by nearly every single major global and national corporation, secular media, social media, tech giants, the White House, the U.S. State Department, the Pentagon, every single U.S. professional sports league, and even children’s cartoon TV shows, all of which without reservation champion LGBTQ ideology.

Despite the fact that Martin’s premise is untrue, he goes on for nearly two minutes, telling Catholics, “It’s especially important for churches to celebrate pride.”

“Just because you celebrate pride doesn’t mean you have to agree with what every video, every article, or even every float in a parade has to say,” claims Martin, yet the LGBTQ movement rejects the Catholic Church’s most fundamental teaching on the nature of man and woman as God created them. 

Martin promotes a serious lie in his short presentation, asserting that Catholics should convey to young people who announce that they are LGBTQ that “you know that God wants them to accept who they are.” God does not create people gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, pansexual or anything other than males or females created for complementary monogamous relationships, bound together in Holy Matrimony. 

Martin has long sought to undermine clergy and laity who continue to embrace the Church’s wisdom and best pastoral practices regarding same-sex attraction, asserting at the 2018 World Meeting of Families that “most L.G.B.T. Catholics have been deeply wounded by the church.”

The Jesuit used his platform at the Vatican-run gathering of Catholics to brazenly lobby for the Church to normalize homosexuality and transgenderism, going as far as urging the pastors to invite self-identifying LGBT individuals to serve as Eucharistic ministers.

Martin’s record of pro-gay activism is lengthy and ranges from his many speeches and media appearances promoting homosexuality to his retweeting of a complaint that priests can’t “bless” gay unions and suggesting that the Church is full of “homophobia” and “marginalizes” the same-sex attracted.

He supports men kissing each other during the sign of peace at Mass, says that a Catholic attending a same-sex “wedding” is like attending a Jewish wedding, and suggests that his critics are secretly homosexual themselves.

At a meeting in the nation’s capital earlier this year, Martin addressed 150 Catholic college and university presidents, urging them to promote “inclusion” on their campuses by promoting “LGBT-affirming liturgies,” permitting students to choose their own pronouns, and holding “Lavender Graduations.”

Full text of Fr. James Martin’s video tweet

Can Catholics celebrate “pride month,” when the LGBTQ community marks its place in society, especially since pride is, after all, one of the seven deadly sins?

Well, first of all remember that there are two definitions of pride.

The first is satisfaction that comes from your accomplishments which can morph into vanity which is bad. But the second kind of pride is a consciousness of your own dignity, and that’s closer to what pride month represents: a celebration of the human dignity of a group of people who have been for so long treated like dirt.

And for the religious person it’s a celebration of them as beloved children of God.

It’s especially important for churches to celebrate pride since a great deal of the rejection and even violence that the LGBTQ community has faced has been motivated by religion, or at least what people think that religion teaches.

The Catechism of the Catholic Church asks us to treat LGBTQ people with respect, compassion, and sensitivity, and participating in pride events or at least supporting our LGBTQ friends is one way to do this.

And just because you celebrate pride doesn’t mean you have to agree with what every video, every article, or even every float in a parade has to say. 

It’s more about supporting the fundamental human rights of this community: The right to live in safety, the right to be treated as equals, and the right to be fully welcomed into society. 

Besides, complaints about the use of the word “pride” don’t seem to happen in other situations. People say, “I’m proud to be Catholic,” or “I’m proud to be an American,” and no one objects to it or says that it’s vanity.

“Pride” is not about vanity, but human dignity.

Maybe the best way to think about pride is to imagine what you’d say to a young person who finally summoned up the courage to tell you that they were LGBTQ. You know that God created them, you know that God loves them, and you know that God wants them to accept who they are. So you would probably say, ‘I am so proud of you for being able to say that.’

That’s the kind of pride that we celebrate this month, so happy pride.



TOPICS: Apologetics; Catholic; Current Events; Moral Issues
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To: markman46

Too clever to risk it. He sticks to adult males.


21 posted on 06/03/2021 10:31:17 PM PDT by Marchmain (If you're vaccinated, why do I need to wear a mask?)
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To: Rurudyne

Seems strange..... If you are not pinto faggotry, then why on earth would you celebrate faggotry?


22 posted on 06/03/2021 10:33:04 PM PDT by redcatcherb412
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To: redcatcherb412

*into


23 posted on 06/03/2021 10:34:12 PM PDT by redcatcherb412
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To: ebb tide

Surprise, surprise...another liberal “dissident” Jesuit.

He must have a vested interest in peter puffers.


24 posted on 06/03/2021 11:32:50 PM PDT by CASchack
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To: ebb tide

Bear in mind: There can be no forgiveness without repentance, firm purpose of amendment and sacramental confession.


25 posted on 06/04/2021 2:30:34 AM PDT by Repent and Believe (...unless you shall do penance, you shall all likewise perish. - Jesus (Luke 13:3))
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To: ebb tide; All

amen; posts bump


26 posted on 06/04/2021 5:49:29 AM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: campaignPete R-CT

I was sick of it already on the 1st


27 posted on 06/04/2021 8:10:06 AM PDT by darkangel82
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To: ebb tide

Thank you so much for posting the Litany. Great reminder.


28 posted on 06/04/2021 9:47:31 AM PDT by Bigg Red (Trump will be sworn in under a shower of confetti made from the tattered remains of the Rat Party.)
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To: Marchmain

OH will he is just a Homo then


29 posted on 06/04/2021 12:01:44 PM PDT by markman46 (engage brain before using keyboard!!!)
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To: campaignPete R-CT; fieldmarshaldj; BillyBoy

I’m officially renaming it AIDS month.


30 posted on 06/04/2021 4:34:23 PM PDT by Impy ("Burn them all!!" - King Aerys II Targaryen, I share the sentiment )
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