Posted by
Mark McConnell on Tuesday, November 14, 2006 6:13:22 PM
News today says that
Bishops OK Guidelines for Gay Ministry.The most remarkable statement made in the linked article was from a representative of the
New Ways Ministry, an independent Catholic organization that advances the same-sexual liberation movement into the Catholic Church."This
document proposes that lesbian and gay people be viewed not in the
entirety of their lives, but in one dimension only _ the sexual
dimension," DeBernardo said. "No other group in the church is singled
out in this way."
Incredible. While I look for an actual full version of the bishops' statement, this astonishingly deceitful comment is worth responding to, on its own.
The quoted speaker knows that it is the 'gay' movement ITSELF that confines persons within a one-dimensional definition - it is precisely this that is so offensive about the movement. This is the essence of the movement: and without it, there would be no movement at all.
Christian
orthodoxy, on the contrary, liberates people from the confines of this
false, oppressive, one-dimensioned idea of a person: 'gay', 'lesbian'.
This materialistic, sensualist, idolatrous and fatalistic mentality has also reached
into the church, deceiving people into the belief that biology - so far as it is the foundation of
desire - is an inexorable doom, and deterministic over the entire person. The "born that way" people, not the church, teach that temptation implies a divine obligation to surrender to temptation.
This document is certainly not perfect; I can say this presumptively. But the quoted
liar perversely attributes to the Church what truly describes his own "ministry", and probably not this document. The same-sexual doom movement defines whole persons in terms of the sexual
dimension only - precisely what the Gospel condemns. It is the Gospel that promises freedom, where the 'gay' movement declares enslavement.
Updates:
Gay
people will never, ever, ever stop being gay. Do you get it? We will
not dissapear despite your desire to have us hide in the shadows like
we used to in this country. We will continue to make strides and earn
equal rights and protection in America and hopefully around the world.
"Gay people ... being gay" - I get it. It means that the sexual dimension subordinates person-hood to sexual orientation, entirely enveloping the identity of these persons and whatever they do, and defining a whole group of persons in terms of a sexual act (and getting carried away, also insisting that this is their essence, as it were: even their eternal state!). The "strides" spoken of begin, first of all, with the spread of this de-humanizing view.
The law of God speaks to those who are tempted. Not all are tempted toward the same things. The Law of God says to "gay people": you are not doomed, you are not sub-human, as these preachers of despair say that you are.
tags: catholic bishops, temptation, homosexuality