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

Docetism

[eliskimo.livejournal.com]

That is interesting. I had not thought about the situation in those terms. I appreciate you taking the time to share this.

(As you're aware, quite a bit of the traffic on my post has also centered on the "why is this sin worse than others" question.)

Re: Docetism

[fpb.livejournal.com]

Well, a good few other people in this post have other important arguments on the matter, and I recommend you follow the link to the discussion by a canonist (Church lawyer) which is full of other things. But philosophical anthropology is in some sense my "thing": it is a part of Christianity on which I have reflected a lot and published some posts in the past, and I think it is one area where people really don't think enough.

Re: Docetism

[fpb.livejournal.com]

The Canonist's comments:
http://www.canonlaw.info/a_samesex.htm
My old post on a similar matter:
http://fpb.livejournal.com/138154.html
Posts on the Christian doctrine of sexuality and marriage:
http://www.livejournal.com/users/fpb/84324.html
http://fpb.livejournal.com/128426.html