Posted on 09/18/2014 8:49:13 AM PDT by NKP_Vet
Notice how the very first sentence he minimizes the seriousness of the subject, comparing it with baseball. Notice how he minimizing it again, calling it the current "brawl" in a 253 year history of the parade. Notice how he says actions (didn't use the word homosexual actions) are immoral, identify is not, and ends the sentence with a big exclamation point! It's disgusting.
He could have summarized it by just saying "I like boys."
Cardinal,unless you clearly state during whatever remarks you make that homosexual acts are *always* sinful then your presence suggests approval.
There is no “honor” if you go along with homosexual activism. Shame on you. Disgusting. You’re a social whore.
So, while actions are immoral, identity is not! In fact, as the Catechism of the Catholic Church reminds us, people with same-sex attraction are God’s children, deserving dignity and respect, never to be treated with discrimination or injustice.
For the Cardinal to attempt to try and find a difference here is laughable. Who does he think he's fooling? He is simply splitting hairs in an effort to serve as Grand Marshall.
Interesting how he capitalizes the word “gay”. He shouldn’t even be using that word, let alone elevating it with a capital.
Atrocious is not too strong a word for this drivel.
Well Cardinal, what about that whole “watchman on the wall” thing? See Ezekiel 3:16-21
It is very difficult for this faithful Catholic to follow the faith when many US Catholic bishops do not appear to uphold its teachings.
This is the kind of equivocation that will kill the Church. “Being ‘gay’ is not a violation of Church teachings” but advocating acts contrary to God’s law is.
Is declaration of homosexuality the same as promotion of homosexuality? In any real sense, considering the very public venue, the answer is yes. These queers are marching to celebrate their homosexuality as much as their Irish heritage. And celebrating homosexuality celebrates what makes it homosexuality — namely, homosexual ACTS.
So, notwithstanding the good cardinal’s flimsy apologia, allowing this group to march IS endorsing behavior that is a most grievous sin.
He just doesn’t have the courage to admit that he gave in to the queer lobby. He is unworthy of his cassock.
That’s some pretty circuitous logic.
Cardinal, tend to your flock, there are wolves about!
Nailed it.
This is the saddest thing that has happened in Irish American history.
What a pathetic, self-serving pile of excuses - I would like to ask him if the activist gays marching in the parade with their flags have renounced homosexual sex.
He’s either a fool or a coward... or both.
“From my review, it does not. Catholic teaching is clear: being Gay is not a sin, nor contrary to Gods revealed morals. Homosexual actions are”
You’re right, Responsibility2nd, because nowhere does it say there are NO homosexual actions in this group. In fact, the assumption is always that there is homosexual action in such groups.
What about pride in that identity, Cardinal? That's where you go off the rails.
No spine at all when you seek to be everyone's jolly buddy.
Is he familiar with the word “Imprimatur”?
His logic only works if it was a group of professed celibate gays and we all know that is not the case.
I can’t stand that man and I think he’s doing enormous damage to the Church. I don’t think he particularly “likes boys,” but what he doesn’t seem to be able to get through his thick Democrat head is that any group that officially identifies itself as “gay” and marches under a banner identifying itself as that (and several other letters) is not simply marching like everybody else, with their own problems, sins, whatever.
It’s saying that it is good to be homosexual, and that being a homosexual is one’s primary identity. Homosexuals have always marched in the parade, as have all sinners, and nobody kept them out. But should we now have a group marching under a banner that says, “NYC Child Molesters” or “Wife Beaters” or some other such thing?
Dolan is a complete and utter fool, and a dangerous one at that.
I wonder if he would still march if their were Irish adultery, wife beating, or cannibal groups. After all, can’t just assume they are promoting or actually doing any of those things. They’re just Irish folks who happen to have these inclinations and specifically identify this way.
Or something.
Freegards
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