Stepford embraces the LGBTQ.
Fr. James Martin's new book, Building a Bridge is out this month, which according to press releases - seems to me at least - on some level, an effort to normalize gay relationships within the Catholic Church. So far I haven't read that Fr. Martin rejects Catholic moral teaching on the issue, but I haven't read the book either, so who am I to judge. New thinking on the subject is a trend gaining greater momentum. Just as Malta Archbishop Charles Scicluna has unofficially lent his support to a homosexual group within his diocese that recently draped a rainbow flag over a Catholic altar as part of a prayer service to end “homophobia.” What can I say?
I'm not sure who said it, but a long time ago someone once boasted "being gay was exciting because you didn't have to be drafted and you didn't have to get married." That's all changed. Now that gay people are out and some so far out they are even way beyond gay, they enjoy equal rights in employment, marriage, and child adoption. I suppose some areas of Western society are not as free, but generally, in Europe and the US, in metropolitan areas to be sure, it makes no difference if you're gay or straight, black or white, married, living together, or single. Yet that in itself is weird. "If loving you is right, I don't want to be normal."
I was looking for something online about Boston in the 1970's and came across a photo of an old gay bar near Copley Square. The bar is gone now. Evidently the scene has become so gentrified these days that all the fun places have been closed, and the 'community' has been more or less domesticated. I'm puzzled by that. Why would anyone want be gay if their life is no different from the Upson's living in Montebank, summering at Upson Pines in the Adirondacks?
Several years ago author-playwright Larry Kramer called out gay people to clean up their act, and on some levels they certainly have achieved a sort of homogenized image of LGBTQ domesticity, which, as one old lesbian stated in an article on the changes since Stonewall that "life may be easier now, but it might have been more exciting then." That is an understatement even for 9 years ago when the article was published. Today it's spectacularly abnormally normal. Generally speaking that is. Many will disagree with me, I'm sure.
Looks like the last thing left for the LGBTQ crowd is to get the Church's blessing. To be accepted, affirmed and canonically approved. Which has me wondering, is it possible for sin to become even more boring?
It makes me wonder, who would even want to identify LGBTQ these days? It has become so ordinary, superficial and even uncreative. Church approval? It's happening before our eyes. Why?
I never really fit in before and I surely
wouldn't want to fit in now
with the church-approved-gay.
at our camp in the Adirondacks. We call it Upson Pines. Read more: http://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/movie_script.php?movie=auntie-mame
We adore Montebank. Of course, we always spend summers at our camp in the Adirondacks. We call it Upson Pines. Read more: http://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/movie_script.php?movie=auntie-mame
"Looks like the last thing left for the LGBTQ crowd is to get the Church's blessing"
ReplyDeleteAin't gonna happen ... never ever. I thought of Henry VIII when he declared himself "head of the Church of England" after Rome refused to grant him a divorce from Catherine of Aragon. The Church of England never represented the true faith no matter what laws Henry may have decreed ... same goes for the fantasy of the Church granting full recognition/blessings to the LGBTQ crowd.
So much going on all over the place ... let's keep praying.
Keep praying and cling to authentic teaching.
DeleteI'm from San Francisco. This month usually ends being one of the most annoying once everything and everywhere in the city starts throwing rainbows all over the place. Like we weren't already aware that there's a large gay community in SF. We get it.
ReplyDeleteYeah, I know. Just about anything goes, doesn't it.
DeleteI have a longtime friend who is non-celibate gay, and a rarity...extremely respectful of Catholic stance with a "live and let live" for both sides mentality. He is fed up with the "gay political agenda" and his thought on present-day gay "rights" concerning marriage, adoption, etc.: "WHY???? Why would I want to mimic straight couples? Straight and gay are like apples and oranges, both fruit, but of a different variety." Without any commentary about his opinion, I would say its a refreshing stance on the topic but one we never really encounter here in SF Bay Area.
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DeleteWhat of the conservative LGBTQ crowd? Are they too "extreme" to be accepted by their peers?
Delete"Pro-Trump gays banned from pride parade"
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2017/06/08/pro-trump-gays-banned-from-pride-parade.html
"Those who preach tolerance and equality are normally the least tolerant and least equal of all. That’s why I was not terribly surprised to learn that organizers of a gay pride parade in Charlotte, North Carolina, banned a group of pro-Trump gays.
“Gays for Trump” had submitted an application to display a float during this year’s Charlotte Pride parade.
“It was going to support Donald Trump,” group spokesman Derek Van Cleve told me. “It was going to be a patriotic float with American flags and a few ‘Make America Great Again’ flags.”
He also said the float would be populated with a number of drag queens – dressed as Uncle Sam and the Statue of Liberty.
“We wanted to have a couple of drag queens on the float dancing in ‘Make America Great Again’ dresses,” he said."
Diakonos - I'm glad I'm not alone in my thinking then.
DeleteYaya. No one cares. LOL!
DeleteTrue ... with so much hot air being blown around these days, that bit of news did catch my eye though and thought you should know. ;-)
DeleteNo - I know - just teasing about it.
DeleteWhat you are are/who you sleep with makes no difference in Canada either. I think we are even more accommodating to all that than the States is. As for tolerance - what they really mean is acceptance.
ReplyDeleteAnd from a discussion with a friend this morning: if gender doesn't matter why do we ask if the baby is a boy or a girl when it's born? Why are there gender reveal parties? Your sex DOES matter. Even my 3 year grandson knows that - when he saw his girl cousin getting her diaper changed he clearly stated for the entire room to hear: She's a GIRL! And a little child shall lead them....
Gender stuff has screwed up everything - we need to go back to the beginning - as Christ said, 'in the beginning it was not so'. The whole thing with gender and sexual fluidity is essentially moral anarchy.
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