April 09, 2009
Rick Warren *Is* Totally Oblivious
(Jimmy Akin)
He said so!
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June 02, 2006
Batwoman's Secret Identity
(Michelle Arnold)
Socialite Kathy Kane has a secret. No, not that she's alive after the world thought her dead for a quarter-century. No, not even that she is also known to Gotham City as Batwoman. Now she is ready to let the world in on her secret:
Batwoman is a lesbian.
"Years after she first emerged from the Batcave, Batwoman is coming out of the closet. DC Comics is resurrecting the classic comic book character as a lesbian, unveiling the new Batwoman in July as part of an ongoing weekly series that began this year.
"The 5-foot-10 superhero comes with flowing red hair, knee-high red boots with spiked heels, and a form-fitting black outfit.
"'We decided to give her a different point of view,' explained Dan DiDio, vice president and executive editor at DC. 'We wanted to make her a more unique personality than others in the Bat-family. That's one of the reasons we went in this direction.'"
Homosexuality is "a different point of view"? And here I thought that Straight America was supposed to believe that homosexuality was an inalterable genetic trait like skin color and hand dominance. If it's merely a point of view, doesn't that imply that it could change?
Homosexuality: Viewpoint or identity? Someone page The Riddler. We have a conundrum for him to unleash upon Gotham City.
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May 19, 2006
"Good Riddance"
(Jimmy Akin)
I really, really do not like Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter. I mean REALLY. (Did I say "really"?)
But in THIS CASE he may have been Arlen the Semi-Friendly Specter.
The issue at hand was whether a constitutional amendment banning homosexual "marriage" in the United States should receive a floor vote in the Senate.
Specter--and the majority--voted that it should, though he seems opposed to the amendment himself.
He was--at least--willing to let the measure be considered by the broader senate.
Which is what prompted a shouting match between him and Democratic Senator Russ Feingold.
After shouting with Specter, Feingold left the meeting in a huff and Specter pronounced "Good riddance!" on him.
By signalling his opposition to true (i.e., heterosexual) marriage, I can only conclude that Feingold doesn't want to be president of the United States in 2008.
Despite rumors of his current plans to run.
There is no way in hades that the nation will be willing to elect a president who is openly pro-homosexual "marriage" in 2008.
In fact, the nation will say "Good riddance!" to any such candidate.
It's nice to have these things pointed out early.
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March 15, 2006
Honor Thy Progenitor A And Progenitor B
(Michelle Arnold)
That rumbling you hear is the grave-spinning of all of Spain's Catholic kings and queens. Or should they now be called Spain's Progenitor As and Progenitor Bs?
"Spain has taken another step in its journey from conservative to liberal bastion by creating new birth certificates to avoid discrimination against same-sex couples.
"According to an announcement in the Official Bulletin of State 'The expression "father" will be replaced with "Progenitor A," and "mother" will be replaced with "Progenitor B."'
"The head of the national Civil Register, Pilar Blanco-Morales, told the newspaper ABC that the change took account of a new law on same-sex marriages passed by the socialist government in July."
No matter what Spain decides to call fathers and mothers, even legislative fiat won't change the biological fact that two Progenitor As and two Progenitor Bs cannot create a child without the biological material of the opposite Progenitor. In other words, there still must be a Progenitor A and a Progenitor B to make a Baby C.
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January 26, 2006
The Truce of 2005?
(Jimmy Akin)
Truces are good things. Right?
I mean, "Blessed are the peacemakers" and all that.
Well, while peace is desirable and to be worked toward--as the Church has pointed out so often in recent times--a mere absence of conflict is not sufficient for the kind of peace that is worth having.
Said another way: Some truces are wrong.
Like "the Truce of 1968," in which Pope Paul VI attempted to settle things down after numerous theologians rebelled against the teaching of Humanae Vitae. Rather than disciplining the malefactors, he let them get away with their dissent, and we have been suffering from the effects of that ever since.
Who know? He may have signed Europe's death warrant by confirming it in its downward population growth death spiral.
Now Fr. Richard John Neuhaus worries that we may be facing a new, equally disastrous truce--the "Truce of 2005."
He sees this truce as potentially as decisive for Benedict XVI's papacy as the Truce of 1968 was for Paul VI's papacy.
He writes:
And so it is that we are faced with what may be a defining test of the pontificate of Benedict XVI. As all who know him can attest, he is in personal relations a gentle man and averse to unpleasantness. He cannot relish the prospect of a direct confrontation with major institutions such as the Society of Jesus. Early on in his pontificate, John Paul II made an effort to bring the Jesuits into closer alignment with church teaching and authority, and ended up with little to show for it. As is his custom, the father general of the society, Peter-Hans Kolvenbach, remains publicly aloof.
With this pope, as with all popes, there is the fear of schism. That was a great fear in 1968. . . .
In 1968, an effort was made to hold accountable those who are solemnly vowed to the service of the Church. And then Rome caved. We are still living with the unhappy consequences of the Truce of 1968. Of course the Church will survive. We have Our Lord’s promise on that. But no one who cares about this pontificate and the integrity of the Church’s ministry can contemplate with equanimity the consequences of a Truce of 2005.
What is this prospective, fearful Truce of 2005?
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December 09, 2005
NCR: "Sympathetically Yours"
(Michelle Arnold)
The National Catholic Reporter Distorter has sent a note of condolence to homosexual clergy on the occasion of the Vatican instruction about the ordination of homosexuals.
"To all those in positions of leadership in the Roman Catholic church [sic] who also happen to be homosexual, we offer our commiseration and sorrow that once again you have been forced to hear your sexuality, an element intrinsic to your humanity, described as an objective disorder.
"This time the phrase appears in the document with the ridiculously unwieldy title: 'Instruction concerning the criteria of vocational discernment regarding persons with homosexual tendencies, considering their admission to seminary and to Holy Orders.' In other words, the document on gays and seminaries.
"The description is repugnant, of course, to all those in the church [sic], gay and straight, who understand that homosexuality is, in the overwhelming number of cases, not a chosen orientation but as essential a part of one’s nature as heterosexuality is for others."
(Nod to Envoy Encore for the link.)
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October 10, 2005
Gay Blessings From The Church Of Sweden
(Michelle Arnold)
The Church of England has taken it on the chin for its capitulation to the sexual revolution in all of its perverse forms, but it is not the only national church in the process of shrugging off traditional Christian morality. The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Sweden is inching closer to offering "blessing ceremonies" to homosexual couples, who profess themselves still dissatisfied at the potential compromise and holding out for "marriage":
"The Church of Sweden has come a step closer to introducing church blessings for gay couples who have signed civil partnership agreements, after a powerful church committee overwhelmingly approved the plans.
"Gay rights group RFSL welcomed the news, but said it would not be satisfied until same-sex couples got the same treatment as their straight counterparts.
"The liturgical committee of the Church Assembly has said that a service of blessing for gay partnerships should be included in the church's official guidelines.
"The final decision will be taken by the full Church Assembly later this month, but the proposal won a large majority on the committee, with twelve out of fifteen members supporting the blessings."
A gay rights activist worries that it will take another generation before the Church of Sweden allows for gay "marriage":
"Gay rights groups have welcomed the announcement, but Sören Andersson, chairman of Sweden's largest gay organisation, RFSL, told The Local that he would have liked the church to have gone further.
"'While I think this is a positive step that they are acknowledging relationships is this way, I think it's sad that they won't offer the same ceremonies to all couples.'
"'It has taken 30 years for us to come this far; I hope it doesn't take another 30 years for us to be offered the same ceremonies.'"
Oh, I don't think he need worry about that. The way things are going, I wouldn't be surprised to see the Church of Sweden cave to the pressure for gay "marriage" within five years.
When Martin Luther and his fellow Reformers stripped northern Europe from the Catholic Church and nationalized the churches in Protestant countries, I wonder if they realized that they would be politicizing religion? History has shown that Caesar is rarely satisfied with his due; without a universal Church led by a supranational pope to keep Caesar in check, the church in a particular country is all too vulnerable to becoming the plaything of Caesar's lobbyists and activists.
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September 27, 2005
Article On Homosexuality & The Priesthood
(Jimmy Akin)
Did an interview a week or so ago with the St. Louis Post-Dispatch on the admission of homosexuals to the priesthood.
The reporter seemed open minded and was quite pleasant to speak with. He also quoted me accurately in the main, though a few qualifiers dropped out along the way (for example, I didn't say that a homosexual seeking ordination is running away from something but may be; the same is also true of some heterosexuals seeking ordination).
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September 06, 2005
New Seminarian Document Expected Soon
(Jimmy Akin)
Remember that document I was telling you about that is expected to affirm that those with a homosexual orientation are not to be ordained to the priesthood?
CNA is reporting:
The chairman of the U.S. bishops' committee on priestly formation, Bishop John Nienstedt, said the Congregation told him that he could expect the guidelines soon.
This document is about to be issued as Vatican officials are expected to begin their visit of the 229 seminaries, theology schools and institutes in the United States this month [SOURCE].
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August 17, 2005
Starbucks' New Quest
(Michelle Arnold)
Trivia for the Day: The coffee chain with a franchise on every corner -- and even a few drive-thrus, one of which I was both stunned and amused to see near my home -- takes its name from the first mate in the Great American Novel Moby Dick by Herman Melville. In the novel, Starbuck tries his best to stop Captain Ahab from pursuing the great white whale, a quest Starbuck apparently realizes is doomed.
Starbuck's namesake now has its own futile quest: To normalize homosexuality by advertising the musings of a homosexual writer on its disposable coffee cups:
"The world’s most famous coffee shop chain has begun a program called 'The Way I See It,' which is a collection of thoughts, opinions and expressions provided by notable figures that now appear on Starbucks coffee cups, according to the chain’s website.
"But one particular quote -- #43 -- blatantly pushes the homosexual agenda. It’s by Armistead Maupin, who wrote 'Tales of the City,' a bestseller-turned-PBS drama advocating the homosexual lifestyle, and it reads:
"'My only regret about being gay is that I repressed it for so long. I surrendered my youth to the people I feared when I could have been out there loving someone. Don't make that mistake yourself. Life’s too [expletive] short.'"
Aside from wondering what the fictional Starbuck -- or his creator, Herman Melville -- might have thought of his namesake's doomed quest, it occurred to me that it is both sad and utterly appropriate that these "thoughts" are being disseminated on disposable cups destined to be tossed into the nearest litter receptacle once the coffee is gulped down. Rather apropos of the ephemeral nature of false ideologies, isn't it?
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