Joe.My.God. LGBT News
According to a fevered press release issued today by hate group leader Brian Brown, unless Congress passes the First Amendment Defense Act, it will soon be illegal to call for executing homosexuals in the United States. And that would be a terrible thing. Brown writes:
Many people still have their head in the sand when it comes to the damage that the US Supreme Court’s illegitimate ruling redefining marriage will eventually mean for religious liberty and people of faith. Let me just say it directly, this is what is coming: Your pastor or priest could be arrested and jailed for preaching the gospel. Think I am exaggerating? Think again: A high ranking Catholic Bishop, His Excellency Vitus Huonder, Bishop of Chur, Switzerland, is now facing criminal charges brought by a homosexual advocacy group that could result in him being incarcerated in prison for three years because he publicly defended the Church’s teaching about marriage. We’re going to eventually see this kind of persecution here in the United States unless we pass the First Amendment Defense Act (FADA) to protect ministers, churches, religious organizations, nonprofit groups, individuals and small businesses. We need your immediate financial gift of $25, $35, $50, $75 or $100 or more to pass this critical legislation.
Bishop Huonder’s ‘crime’ was to speak at a conference on marriage entitled “Marriage: Gift, Sacrifice and Commission.” He explained that Christian moral teaching squarely rejects the idea of homosexual unions, citing among other scriptural references two passages from Leviticus (Lev. 18:22, 20:13) to support his proposition that, “There is no plurality of models for marriage and family. To even speak of such is already an attack on the Creator, as well as on the Savior and Sanctifier, that is, on the Trinitarian God.” The homosexual advocacy group Pink Cross claims this amounts to sowing hated and inciting violence because a later passage of the Leviticus verse mentioned by Bishop Huonder says that anyone who has homosexual relations should be put to death. (The same chapter of Leviticus calls on the people of Israel to put to death adulterers and those who have sex with family members.) By quoting this passage from the Bible, Pink Cross says that Bishop Huonder crossed a “red line” because as a senior church official his words “could be followed obediently” leading Christians to kill gay people. How preposterous!
Brown fails to mention, as is his way, that Bishop Huonder also declared that Catholic doctrine “unambiguously” supports both of the Leviticus passages cited above. Verbatim: “Both of these passages alone suffice to clarify unambiguously the church’s position on homosexuality.” Funny how Brown left that bit out, huh? By the way, today’s email contains exactly 17 links to NOM’s donation page.