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

[inverarity.livejournal.com]

That's actually pretty interesting -- thank you. I am fairly well-read about early Christian theology, but I was not familiar with Docetism.

Now, if I may ask you a serious question without you interpreting it as an attack on your religion or an attempt to engage you in a fight? (Let's just leave it as a given that I don't share your beliefs, okay?) Because I'm genuinely interested here:

Are you saying that the RCC's position is, in fact, that homosexuals are more serious sinners than, say, adulterers or divorcees or people who use birth control or abortion? Or is that specifically gay marriage is an attack on church teachings? If this child's parents were openly gay but not claiming to be married, would they have been treated just like any other sinners (i.e., every other child's parents)?

[fpb.livejournal.com]

In a word, no. For that matter, a lot of homosexuals are not even interested in "gay marriage", and the vast majority of its supporters are as straight as a plummet line.

[fpb.livejournal.com]

I mean, yes, the specific doctrine of gay marriage is what gives this situation a special significance. In the past, the Church might have paid less attention at a child growing up with two close male or female friends if it was understood that a Catholic education is what they wanted. But the rise of this wholly subversive claim about marriage makes the situation different in the extreme.