Tag Archives: Catholic Church

“To legalize marriage between two people of the same sex would enshrine in the law the principle that mothers and fathers are interchangeable or irrelevant, and that marriage is essentially an institution about adults, not children; marriage would mean nothing more than giving adults recognition and benefits in their most significant relationship. How can we do this to our children? …

“We are disappointed that the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has taken the transparently political step of endorsing same-sex marriage in an attempt to influence the US Supreme Court. They have done a grave disservice to America’s children by endorsing a policy that intentionally deprives children of either a mother or a father. Their position seems to be that the …

Scotland’s Herald reports that one of the priests who brought about the downfall of Cardinal Keith O’Brien was once his long-term boyfriend. The man left the priesthood in the middle of the last decade but rejoined and is living on the continent in a post the cardinal helped him secure. The complainant is known to have been in regular telephone …

“Dear Joe, In a few days, on March 26th, NOM along with over 40 pro-family partners will March for Marriage in our nation’s capital. We are running out of time. We still have many, many churches that want to organize buses for their congregants to attend the March, but do not have the money to fund them. Will you give …

From Paris, JMG reader David sends us the above bus ad from France’s anti-gay marriage group and notes the bad rhyme of their latest slogan, which translates as: “François, don’t mess with marriage. Take care of unemployment.”  Yesterday Manif Pour Tous lost their court battle to march down the Champs-Élysée. Today they issued a murky advisory on the new march …

The group wanted to march down the Champs-Élysées next week just a couple of days before the US Supreme Court hears its cases. The cops said “Non!” and a Paris court agrees. Translation of the above by JMG reader David: “Paris administrative tribunal has rejected the #Manifpourtous request to cancel the police prefecture’s ban.” Judicial tyranny! (#Manifpourtous means “demo for …

During Argentina’s debate on the ultimately successful battle for same-sex marriage, now-Pope Francis urged local Catholic officials to endorse civil unions as a last ditch effort to thwart full equality. Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, who led the public charge against the measure, spoke out in a heated meeting of bishops in 2010 and advocated a highly unorthodox solution: that the …

At this writing, the only musical act still on the bill for NOM’s hate march on the Supreme Court is UltraMontane, a group comprised of three of the five members of the Celtic band Scythian.  The formed-just-for-NOM group gets its name from ultramontanism, which Wikipedia defines as “a religious philosophy within the Catholic Church that places strong emphasis on the …

A fifth priest has come forward to claim that disgraced Cardinal Keith O’Brien put the moves on him the very day he got the little red hat. The cardinal is alleged to have assaulted a priest at the Scots College in Rome in October 2003, hours after being awarded the red mitre by Pope John Paul II. The priest, who …

“It’s time for the church to stop talking so much about sex. It’s the perfect time, in fact.  It’s on matters of sexual morality that the church has lost much of its authority. And it’s on matters of sexual morality that it largely wastes its breath. By insisting on mandatory celibacy for a priesthood winnowed and sometimes warped by that, …

“We are going to win at the Supreme Court. It will be shown to be the biggest strategic mistake the supporters of same-sex marriage ever have made [to challenge Prop 8]. And the reality is that all of them knew this. All of the major [gay] groups knew this. They knew this was the wrong time. We’re going to find …

As we learned long ago, NOM doesn’t care if their lies are broadcast across thousands and thousands of blogs and progressive websites, they just keep repeating the same discredited bullshit. Count the lies in this new ad for their DC hate march. If you miss any, Jeremy Hooper has fisked the entire clip moment-by-moment.

“Because there are no overtly gay-friendly cardinals on earth, when the 115 voting-age scarlet princes glided into the Sistine chapel to select from their ranks a new pope, hopes were slim that gay Catholics would benefit from the conclave. When the chosen one stepped out onto the balcony of Saint Peter’s basilica, it was clear that the haze of white …

“For decades the Catholic hierarchy has been in need of desperate reform. In his life, Jesus condemned gays zero times. In Pope Benedict’s short time in the papacy, he made a priority of condemning gay people routinely. This, in spite of the fact that the Catholic hierarchy had been in collusion to cover up the widespread abuse of children within …

The new pope is Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Buenos Aires, Argentina.  From Wikipedia: He strongly opposed legislation introduced in 2010 by the Argentine Government to allow same-sex marriage. In a letter to the monasteries of Buenos Aires, he wrote: “Let’s not be naive, we’re not talking about a simple political battle; it is a destructive pretension against the plan …

Stand by for the name of the Next Top Pedophile Enabler. After party at the Vatican-owned bathhouse! First fifty cardinals get in free! Pick up your altar boy gift bag at the door!

“If you could go back to 1973, would you participate in a march to save society from the scourge of abortion? Would you go to Washington to show the Supreme Court that you are one of a multitude of people who are demanding that they not use our constitution to create a great moral and civic wrong? If we lose …