Homosexualist Dissenters to Target US Bishops

Dissenters also to target faithful Catholics at their dioceses, parishes and communities

Folks, this according to CNA:

Washington D.C.,

Aug 22, 2010 / 06:12 pm (CNA).- Prominent Catholic dissenters have created an organization to promote homosexual political causes and to change Catholic opinion through coordination with other activists. Organized explicitly to oppose the U.S. bishops, the group’s website asks for reports of “anti-equality activity” in Catholic parishes.

The group Catholics for Equality’s website, which is still under construction, reports that the organization is dedicated to “support, educate, and mobilize equality-supporting Catholics to advance LGBT equality at federal, state, and local levels.”

The group claims the “official voice of the hierarchy” favors discrimination and opposes “just” efforts to secure “legal equality for LGBT Americans.” This “anti-equality voice” is “far too often” portrayed as representative of American Catholics, according to the website.

One page on the site, titled “Report anti-equality activity!” contains an incomplete template for a submission form. It asks informers to describe the purported anti-equality activity and to categorize whether it took place in the parish, diocese or community “so that pro-equality Catholics can respond.”

The information generates an e-mail sent to the organization and also “an entry into private ‘report’ database,” the website says.

Please, read the whole thing here.

Commentary. Let me make it easy for these folks to start their little black list with my name:

I support every bishop of the Catholic Church in the world and in the US in their pastoral ministry, particularly when they teach faith and morals in accordance to the Mind of the Spirit, who is the Mind of the Catholic Church;

I support our bishops and pastors when they defend marriage as the union of one man, and one woman before any forum.

I receive the teaching of the Catholic Church from my pastors, as explicitly stated in the Catechism of the Catholic Church and vow to support it in season and out of season:

2357 Homosexuality refers to relations between men or between women who experience an exclusive or predominant sexual attraction toward persons of the same sex. It has taken a great variety of forms through the centuries and in different cultures. Its psychological genesis remains largely unexplained. Basing itself on Sacred Scripture, which presents homosexual acts as acts of grave depravity,140 tradition has always declared that "homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered."141 They are contrary to the natural law. They close the sexual act to the gift of life. They do not proceed from a genuine affective and sexual complementarity. Under no circumstances can they be approved.

2358 The number of men and women who have deep-seated homosexual tendencies is not negligible. They do not choose their homosexual condition; for most of them it is a trial. They must be accepted with respect, compassion, and sensitivity. Every sign of unjust discrimination in their regard should be avoided. These persons are called to fulfill God's will in their lives and, if they are Christians, to unite to the sacrifice of the Lord's Cross the difficulties they may encounter from their condition.

2359 Homosexual persons are called to chastity. By the virtues of self-mastery that teach them inner freedom, at times by the support of disinterested friendship, by prayer and sacramental grace, they can and should gradually and resolutely approach Christian perfection.

Therefore, I resolve to continuing doing everything within my sphere of influence in my parish, diocese, and through this modest blog to:

Denounce the "Catholics for Equality" organization, and their underlying organizations and dissenters as Catholics "in name only" and as having strayed from the moral teaching of the Catholic Church. By their words and actions they stand outside the Catholic Church.

Counteract the agitation and propaganda emanating from "Catholics for Equality" with the clear teaching of the Catholic Church.

Inform the appropriate pastors of any attempt of "Catholics for Equality" to organize themselves in my parish or diocese.

Support any priest suffering from homosexual tendencies, but otherwise living in chastity, from any attempt by "Catholics for Equality" to shame them or "out" them.

Support any ministry such as the Courage Apostolate that supports men and women with homosexual inclinations, dedicated to attaining chastity, in accord with the magisterium's teaching on homosexuality.

Resist any attempt at intimidation emanating from "Catholics for Equality" aimed at silencing the voices of faithful Catholics.

Exhort, encourage, and support all faithful Catholics to protect marriage and the traditional family at the voting booth.

You "Catholics for Equality" folks can now blacklist me as someone who opposes "equality" as you misconceive it.

Better get a big, fat notebook because your blacklist is going to be pretty long, despite your wishful belief to the contrary.