Posted on 02/23/2021 3:59:56 PM PST by NKP_Vet
Catholic League president Bill Donohue explains why the Equality Act is flawed:
According to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, the Equality Act is “about ending discrimination”; President Joe Biden agrees. That may be its intent, but its effect is to promote the most comprehensive assault on Christianity ever written into law.
This explains why the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops has been fighting this proposed law for years. Most recently it said the Equality Act “would discriminate against people of faith.” The Catholic League and many other civil rights and religious organizations have also sounded the alarm.
The Equality Act has two major goals: it would amend the 1964 Civil Rights Act to include sexual orientation and gender identity to the definition of sex; it would also undermine the Religious Freedom Restoration Act by allowing gay rights to trump religious rights.
The 1964 Civil Rights Act was primarily motivated by a desire to end racial segregation. It banned discrimination based on race, sex or national origin. That was it. It said absolutely nothing about sexual orientation, and it certainly didn’t address transgender rights—it wasn’t even a concept in the 1960s. Adding sexual orientation and gender identity to this law not only violates the intent of the legislation, it unduly burdens houses of worship and other religious organizations.
(Excerpt) Read more at catholicleague.org ...
And Biden damns himself to hell by partaking of the body of Christ while disobeying Christ’s commands
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2021/02/joe-biden-catholic-communion-abortion/618067/
“....If some Catholic leaders had their way, Biden wouldn’t be able to take Communion at all. A committee of bishops recently gathered to examine the “difficult and complex situation” of a Catholic president who publicly supports expanding abortion rights, contrary to the faith’s teachings.
...Although the Catholic Church can seem centralized and hierarchical, parish priests and their bishops also hold significant power. These local Catholic leaders, not bishops who mostly live thousands of miles away, are the ones who determine in practice whether Biden can regularly receive Communion.
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More priests need to be like Father Robert Morey, the pastor at Saint Anthony Catholic Church in Florence, who told the Florence Morning News that he had denied Biden communion because “any public figure who advocates for abortion places himself or herself outside of Church teaching.”
Rd later on orejudice of equality Act.
For me as a Catholic it IS troubling that more priests don’t refuse communion to Pelosi and Biden.
I see it as St. Paul in 1 Corinthians 11 saw it
“27 Wherefore whosoever shall eat this bread, and drink this cup of the Lord, unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord.”
The Eucharist is the body and blood of the Lord. It is spiritual food and we need to be repentful of what we have done.
A mass murderer who repents and never does it again may be worthy to receive this (that’s my opinion - I don’t know if that is correct doctrinally)
Pelosi and Biden haven’t directly taken the hand to murder, but they have supported it. They keep their hands clean while enabling murder. Should they be allowed to partake of the body of Christ? imho - No.
What is the damage to their souls with this? As St. Paul notes, it’s irreparable.
you are correct. And it was just 25 years ago.
My own position for the past 3 years has been - “bring back Victorian laws, make it illegal”. Harsh, I agree and I’m probably being over-reactive
remember when, before mask mandates to protect people from a health risk, when conservatives said to ban gay sex to prevent aids, and how they screamed it was a violation of civil rights.
remember.
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