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At the risk of losing my beauty pageant crown, let’s talk about homosexuality. If you don’t believe in God, stop reading right here and look up the Bisexual Examiner. Perhaps you will feel more comfortable there.

There are no Don’t Judge cards welcome here. This is not about judging; it’s about God’s law and His expectations of us. If you don’t care what He thinks or believe in the existence of eternity, then there will be nothing of interest to read, here.
 

FROM THE HORSE’S MOUTH

Scripture is the most reliable source in understanding where God is coming from. (Tradition is a close second.) The following quotes have been repeated hundreds of times and are plastered all over the Internet. In case no one was listening, here they are again:

For this cause God delivered them up to shameful affections. For their women have changed the natural use into that use which is against nature. And, in like manner, the men also, leaving the natural use of the women, have burned in their lusts one towards another, men with men working that which is filthy, and receiving in themselves the recompense which was due to their error (Rom 1:26-27).

“I will not visit upon your daughters when they shall commit fornication, and upon your spouses when they shall commit adultery: because themselves conversed with harlots, and offered sacrifice with the effeminate, and the people that doth not understand shall be beaten” (Osee 4:14).

Thou shat not lie with mankind as with womankind, because it is an abomination (Lv 18:22).

“There were also the effeminate in the land, and they did according to all the abominations of the people whom the Lord had destroyed before the face of the children of Israel” (3 Kings 14:24).

“And he took away the effeminate out of the land, and he removed all the filth of the idols, which his fathers had made” (3 Kings 15:12).

“And the remnant also of the effeminate, who remained in the days of Asa his father, he took out of the land” (3 Kings 22:47).

“He destroyed also the pavilions of the effeminate, which were in the house of the Lord, for which the women wove as it were little dwellings for the grove” (4 Kings 23:7).

“Their soul shall die in a storm, and their life among the effeminate” (Job 36:14).

“Nor the effeminate, nor liars with mankind, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor railers, nor extortioners, shall possess the kingdom of God” (1 Corin 6:10).

Convinced?

BOO-HOO! WAAH, WAAH!

Homosexuals are blatantly vocal about any discrimination or “hate speech” that comes their way. Should they be abused, discriminated against or mocked? No. Should they be held accountable to the same Commandments of purity and chastity as everyone else? Yes.

Persecution by one human being of another has been going on since the first cave man picked up a stick. Has a homosexual ever been fed to the lions? How about executed in a gas chamber? Has a homosexual ever been treated as a slave or made to sit at the back of a bus?

All of these situations are immoral and hideous; they are also a reality. The fact is, there are few of us who can go back into our genealogy without finding persecution of our ancestors in some way, shape or form: Catholics, Irish, Polish, Jews, Blacks, Japanese, etc. Interestingly enough, one of the groups who are experiencing the most intolerable (yet subliminal) form of persecution these days are Christians.
 

In August of 2008, Barack Hussein Obama announced to the world that “we are no longer just a Christian nation.” An uproar immediately followed in his defense, claiming that the word just removed any culpability of his attempt to downplay the fact that there are still plenty of us Christians out there who are fighting desperately to hold on to the Christian principles upon which this nation was founded.
 

HATE SPEECH?

Two city workers in Oakland, California attempted to assemble a support group of Americans with Christian values and posted the following bulletin: “Good News Employee Associations is a forum for people of faith to express their views on the contemporary issues of the day. With respect for the Natural Family, Marriage and Family values.” Not only were the employees ordered to remove the bulletin, but the 9th Circuit Court declared the words family values to be "hate speech."

INDOCTRINATION

In March of 2000, a“Teach Out” was sponsored by the Massachusetts Department of Education, the Governor's Commission on Gay and Lesbian Youth, and the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network. Teenagers as young as twelve-years-old were encouraged to attend.

Brian Camenker and Scott Whiteman posted an article detailing the discussions that ensued at what was eventually named Fistgate. Here is a sample of some of the new ideas that the children of Massachusetts were taught that day:

The Department of Public Health employee, Michael Gaucher, had the following exchange with one student, who appeared to be about 16 years old:
Michael Gaucher: "What orifices are we talking about?"
Student: [hesitation]
Michael Gaucher: "Don't be shy, honey; you can do it."
Student: "Your mouth."
Michael Gaucher: "Okay."
Student: "Your ass."
Michael Gaucher: "There you go."
Student: "Your pussy. That kind of place."

“Margot Abels told the students that ‘fisting’ is not about forcing your hand into somebody's ‘hole, opening or orifice’ if they don't want it there. She said that ‘usually’ the person was very relaxed and opened him or herself up to the other. She informed the class that it is a very emotional and intense experience.”
 

Interestingly enough, Barack Obama recently appointed Kevin Jennings as the Safe School Czar. Jennings had this to say, October 25, 1997, at the Grace Church School in New York City, regarding the GLSEN (Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network) which he founded: “. . . I’d like five years from now for most Americans when they hear the word GLSEN to think, ‘Ooh, that’s good for kids.’’’
 

Jennings went on to say:

One of the people that’s always inspired me is Harry Hay, who started the first ongoing gay rights groups in America. . . No, I can envision a day when straight people say, ‘So what if you’re promoting homosexuality?’ Or straight kids say, ‘Hey, why don’t you and your boyfriend come over before you go to the prom and try on your tuxes on at my house?’ That if we believe that can happen, we can make it happen. The only thing that will stop us is our lack of faith that we can make it happen. That is our mission from this day forward. To not lose our faith, to not lose our belief that the world can, indeed, be a different place.
 

FRUITS (NO PUN INTENDED)

There is an interesting quote in Paul’s Letter to the Romans in which he comments regarding “they also that consent to them that do them”:

Being filled with all iniquity, malice, fornication, avarice, wickedness, full of envy, murder, contention, deceit, malignity, whisperers, detractors, hateful to God, contumelious, proud, haughty, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, foolish, dissolute, without affection without fidelity, without mercy. Who, having known the justice of God, did not understand that they who do such things, are worthy of death; and not only they that do them, but they also that consent to them that do them (Rom. 1:29-32).
 

Bishop Thomas J. Gumbleton is a retired auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Detroit; his brother, Dan, was a homosexual. In a September 30, 2002 edition of America magazine he stated, (in response to criticism of the ordination of gays):

All this must stop: the scapegoating of gay priests for the sex abuse crisis, the demand to reject homosexual persons for the priesthood and religious life, the unchallenged suggestion that the ordination of a gay man would be invalid. All these positions contribute to the sharp increase in the negative feelings that so many in the church and our society have toward homosexual persons.

A July 16, 2004 article by Michael S. Rose, discusses an expose that appeared in the July 12-17 edition of Profit Magazine, wherein Fr. Wolfgang Rothe, vice rector of the Sankt Poelten seminary in Austria was photographed in a compromising position with an unknown seminarian.

 According to Rose, “The scandal immediately prompted the resignation of two seminary officials, an internal investigation by the Austrian bishops conference, and calls for a criminal investigation since the scandal involves a large cache of child pornography—illegal in Austria as in most other countries.”
Bishop Kurt Krenn, of the Sankt Poelten diocese, described the photographs as "harmless pranks" . . . "have nothing to do with homosexuality."
 

MOST HOLY REDEEMER PARISH

Some of the fruits of the homosexual agenda and the church’s terror of “offending anyone” are well-documented in the city of San Francisco, home of Most Holy Redeemer “Catholic” Church. In October of 2007, Archbishop of San Francisco, George Niederauer, gave the Blessed Sacrament to two members of the Sisters of the Perpetual Indulgence, a mock religious group whose members are male homosexuals determined to publicly mock Catholic values and morals. (The only hope is that the hosts were probably not validly consecrated, anyway.)

  The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence were no strangers to Most Holy Redeemer Church as at one time they were allowed to host the weekly Bingo activities in the basement of the church.

Fr. Steven Meriwether, pastor of Most Holy Redeemer and past Chancellor of the San Francisco Archdiocese not only approves of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, but takes part in their activities. Here, he is seen giving his blessing (sprinkling with Holy Water) to the homosexuals on their way to participate in the San Francisco 2006 Gay Pride Parade.

Other participants in the Gay Pride Parade:

NEW YORK

New York City has never been one to be left out of the festivities. They, too, have their own gay pride parade.

In 1985, five Catholic priests declared their homosexuality by marching in the New York parade along with the Dignity group “ . . . whose purpose is to encourage gay men, lesbians, bisexuals and transgender (GLBT) persons and their friends to express their sexuality in a manner consonant with Christ's teachings. Dignity helps people to become more active members of the Roman Catholic Church and society, and works through education and legal reforms for justice and the social acceptance of gay men, lesbians, bisexuals and transgender persons.”

BEHIND THE WALLS OF THE SEMINARIES

In his book The Changing Face of the Priesthood, Donald B. Cozzens, rector of St. Mary's Seminary in Cleveland, talks about his experiences with homosexuality while at the seminary.

And in the seminaries it wasn't merely a preponderance of gay students, but also ‘a disproportionate number of homosexually-oriented persons,’ including faculty. . . That kind of atmosphere, deters the heterosexual man from continuing to study and prepare for the priesthood. In his book he questions how  ". . .any healthy heterosexual seminarian expect to be properly formed and prepared for the priesthood when constantly subjected to that which is so clearly contrary to Church teaching and discipline?”
 

How many heterosexual seminarians, whether orthodox or not, have decided to leave the seminary and abandon their vocations because of the 'gay subculture' they were forced to endure, because they had been propositioned, harassed or even molested? We're not talking here about the presence of a few homosexually-oriented men who conduct themselves with perfect chastity. Rather there exists an intense and often threatening atmosphere.
. . .Certain seminaries have earned nicknames such as Notre Flame (for Notre Dame Seminary in New Orleans) and Theological Closet (for Theological College at Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C.); St. Mary's Seminary in Baltimore has earned the nickname “The Pink Palace.”

Phil Brennan’s article for Newsmax entitled, Homosexual Culture Undercuts Priesthood (April 5, 2002) quotes several other seminarians who give an account of their experiences while in the seminary:

. . .down the hall there would be two guys in the shower and everybody knew it. . . Many of the younger students would be placed into situations where they compromised their sexual integrity . . . This would be used against them by older students for favors. And those older students actually had faculty members who would request from time to time a friend who would come and visit them because they were lonely. And these students would supply fresh meat.

Baltimore Seminary:

"There was no discretion at all. The few times I was there, some of the seminarians would literally dress like gays from [Greenwich] Village. They would even go so far as to wear pink silk; it was like going to see La Cage Aux Folles."

How sad that we are so afraid of offending one another, yet care nothing for offending God.