To all the Catholics on my f-list - Non-Catholics, stay the Hell away or you WILL be offended

[fpb]

There is a priest in Boulder, Colorado, who is under vicious, systematic, directed attack because he is keeping the teachings of the Church and the orders of his Bishop. I have some experience of how it feels like to be at the wrong (or is it?) end of the kind of vile hatred that is being directed at this man. So I tell the Catholics and Christians on my f-list: follow this link and do what it says - http://wdtprs.com/blog/2010/03/to-arms-denver-priest-attacked-for-being-obedient-poll-alert/ - and then go to the priest's own blog and register a personal message of support. While a good man has enough in himself to stand up for the Church even to martyrdom - and to be fair, that does not yet seem to be the case here - anyone who is subjected to hundreds of direct sexually explicit threats can do with kind words from a distant country.

Comments

[capnflynn.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the link; I wasn't previously aware that any of this was going on. We shouldn't have to say that someone is being "brave" or "courageous" for abiding by the precepts of his faith (i.e., obeying his superiors), and yet...

[fpb.livejournal.com]

Until you know what being the target of a homosexualist hate campaign is like, you will not understand why it takes courage to stand up to one. Years ago, I as good as promised myself never to put myself in that kind of situation again; and one of the reasons why I am doing that is that the courage of that priest made me ashamed of myself.