Posted on 04/26/2013 5:23:12 PM PDT by Morgana
BRUSSELS, April 23, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) - In an astonshing display of gentleness in the face of a vile attack, the head of the Catholic Church in Belgium, Archbishop Andre-Joseph Leonard, remained calmly seated with eyes closed in prayer Tuesday as four topless women attacked him with shouts and curses and doused him with water.
It’s not the first time the bishop has been attacked for standing up for the Church’s teachings on homosexuality and expressing his concern for those who live the homosexual lifestyle.
The incident took place at the ULB University in Brussels where the archbishop was participating in a debate on blasphemy laws.
The four women, representing the pro-abortion and homosexual group FEMEN, took to the stage where they disrobed to reveal black-painted slogans on their bare chests and backs, such as ‘my body my rules,’ and 'anus dei is coming.' They also held signs reading ‘stop homophobia’. The women doused the archbishop with water from bottles formed in the image of the Virgin Mary.
(More photos here. Warning: uncensored)
For most of the attack, which lasted a number of minutes before the women could be forced off stage, Archbishop Leonard sat drenched with water with eyes closed in prayer. After the ordeal, the archbishop kissed the image of the Virgin Mary on one of the water bottles that was used in the attack. Le Soir reports that one of the interveners said of the archbishop: “He was very calm and maintained a position of prayer. I have to believe he was praying for us.” Archbishop Andre-Joseph Leonard kisses one of the bottles that was used to douse him with water by the gay activists. The bottles were in the shape of the Virgin Mary.
According to FEMEN, Tuesday’s attack was spurred by an interview three weeks ago where Archbishop Leonard said that when speaking to Christians who are inclined to homosexuality he suggests celibacy, as is required for all single persons.
Already in 2007, as Bishop of Namur, Archbishop Leonard was accused of an offence against the Belgian anti-racism act for calling homosexual acts “abnormal”. In 2008 he was cleared of homophobia charges after appearing in court.
In 2010, as the new archbishop of Brussels, the archbishop was targeted by homosexualist groups, and condemned by the country’s prime minister, after he said that AIDS is a consequence of risky sexual behavior, including homosexual sexual activity.
Also in 2010 he was attacked at his Cathedral by a man who shoved a cherry pie in the archbishop’s face. Again in 2011, homosexual activists at the Catholic University of Louvain-la-Neuve near Brussels threw a custard pie in the archbishop’s face.
Archbishop Leonard has been a great supporter for the pro-life movement in Belgium, speaking at their inaugural March for Life in 2010.
Charged with the crime of homophobia and for stating the obvious truth that AIDS is a consequence of risky sexual behavior...sigh...coming soon to our country as we become more "progressive". Before long, it will be punishable by fines and/or imprisonment to say God calls homosexual acts sin and an abomination. Christians will not be permitted to own Bibles where such sections have not been redacted! We may soon see what real persecution is all about and it won't be pie and water thrown at us.
Why are their signs and body writings in English?
Hmmmmmm......
“Dear Lord, please, just this once.....do like You did for Elijah and Elisha....I won’t ever ask for anything else.....”
Wow!
Those fellers without their shirts couldn’t get lucky at a prison rodeo!
Gunner, one of them look kind of like you when you’re angry!
lol i cannot tell if they be guys or girls
Like the folks “protesting” Margaret Thatcher’s funeral: screaming at a dead woman. Stay classy Libs!
Looks like a Hate Crime to me.
In America, it probably would be but in Europe I don’t know if they have those type of laws.
The Al Queerda types are no different than the Islamist, their faggot jihad is equally insane.
Sodom Hussein Obama wants to turn the Boy Scouts into a dating club for NAMBLA...
Fantasy is the homoseuxals’ medium of infinitization.
All men are born of a woman.
It has been this way from the beginning.
Why signs in English?
None of these people are native English speakers... Czechs, Belgians...
This was staged for the American press.
It is terrorism...
The only purpose is to terrorize.
I was wondering that too. I doubt those chicks even speak their native tongue well.
Galations 5:19-24
“Sodom Hussein Obama wants to turn the Boy Scouts into a dating club for NAMBLA...”
Good one. (The quip. Not the sad meaning behind it.)
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