As I write, it is June and yet another so-called “LGBT Pride Month” is upon us.
Here in the United States, Bill Clinton was the first president to formally acknowledge the multi-national observance in the year 2000.
After an eight year reprieve during the Bush Administration, the practice of presidentially proclaiming “LGBT Pride Month” was resumed under Barack Obama and has occurred annually ever since.
On May 31st, President Obama issued the most recent such proclamation stating in part:
“Despite the extraordinary progress of the past few years, LGBT Americans still face discrimination simply for being who they are.”
Since when are the “things we do” the equivalent of “who we are” – as if one has no choice in the matter?
Yes, I know… ever since it became politically expedient to do so, that’s when.
The reality is, however, homosexual activity is not who anyone is; no more than masturbation, or bestiality, or even celibacy is.
Sadly, however, identity politics isn’t confined to the political arena alone.
In the aftermath of the massacre in Orlando, Bishop Robert Lynch of St. Petersburg, FL got into the act saying that Catholicism “targets” and “often breeds contempt for gays, lesbians and transgender people.”
This misappropriation of identity with respect to sexual activity wasn’t lost on Joseph Sciambra, an “ex-gay” Catholic blogger who was at one time deeply immersed in the homosexual lifestyle:
Unfortunately, some in the Church, like the Bishop from Florida, continue to make the same mistakes of the past, by constantly referring to us as gay, lesbian, transgender and LGBT; we are none of those things. We were not born “gay,” and we were not born damaged; we may have been hurt along the way, but, like the rest of humanity, we can recover and heal. We do not belong to an identity, we do not belong to a movement, and we do not belong to a group. So don’t talk to us as if we do. We belong to God.
Treating individual human beings as if they are the activities that they do, or are tempted to do, isn’t an expression of love. Love desires the best for its beloved. In the case of human persons; the “best” is the Heavenly perfection to which all of us are called.
True love, therefore, recognizes that every human person is greater than even the most laudable of earthly activities, as each is necessarily limited and in some way imperfect.
When one equates another’s (or even one’s own) identity with their sinful activities, it’s the exact opposite of love. Why? Because it limits the individual soul for which Our Blessed Lord laid down His life – that it might attain to Heavenly perfection – to the confines of this fallen and imperfect world, and ultimately to Hell.
Joseph Sciambra (and no doubt many others) experienced this firsthand; not from a politician, but from a churchman:
When I left “gay,” not by any choice, but because of the impending reality of death, I inexplicably, and almost immediately, went to speak with a Catholic priest. I explained everything I had been through over the past decade and how I wanted to leave San Francisco and the Castro. When I finished talking, he let out a sigh and said: “But, you were born gay, that’s where you belong.” He critiqued some of my methodology, that I had gone about being “gay” in a somewhat erratic and reckless way, and that I should try to “settle down” with one man.
That, my friends, is what hatred looks like.
So too is this from the aforementioned proclamation of President Obama:
We remain committed to addressing health disparities in the LGBT community — gay and bisexual men and transgender women of color are at a particularly high risk for HIV, and we have worked to strengthen our National HIV/AIDS Strategy to reduce new infections, increase access to care, and improve health outcomes for people living with HIV.
Who is he kidding? He hasn’t an ounce of genuine concern for those who so suffer.
The most recent data available from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control indicates that “gay and bisexual men” account for 78% of all newly diagnosed HIV infections in the United States; not because of who they are, but because of what they do:
“Most gay and bisexual men acquire HIV through anal sex…”
With this in mind, Obama may have just as reasonably said:
We are committed to addressing the high rate of electrocution among children who stick forks into electrical outlets, but we refuse to address their behavior since, after all, this is who they are.
So, what exactly is this “LGBT community” of which Obama writes?
As Webster’s Dictionary defines it, a “community” is “a body of people having common rights, privileges, or interests, or living in the same place under the same laws and regulations.”
The so-called “LGBT Community” has little to do with “rights and privileges.” The truth is, the entire human family, ultimately, lives under but one law; the same that no authentic rights and privileges can possibly oppose – the Divine Law.
It is here where the heart of the LGBT Community lies; namely, in one common interest and one alone – and that is the rejection of the Divine Law in favor of unbridled homosexual activity in all of its disgusting detail.
If you’re not quite sure what those details are, follow this link at the risk of losing your appetite as Joseph Sciambra reveals “The gay sex secret homosexuals want no one to know.”
(I dare say that there are likely thousands of naïve “straight” LGBT activists, including the parents of “gay” children, who would think twice about waving a rainbow flag after having read this.)
At the end of the day, the “LGBT Community” is all about a false “right” to do whatever one damn well pleases in spite of God’s Law, and in spite of the harmful consequences to oneself and others, and it is this that the leaders of many nations, including my own, are asking their countrymen to celebrate with “pride.”
Perhaps the worst part of Obama’s proclamation came at the very end:
“IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this thirty-first day of May, in the year of our Lord two thousand sixteen, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and fortieth.”
The year of Our Lord…
Imagine, the unmitigated gall that it takes to invoke the Saving Act of Jesus Christ in a document that effectively mocks the Divine Law!
If you think it’s deplorable when a man who presents himself to the world as a “Christian” does such a thing, how much worse is it when a man who presents himself to the world as a “pope” does the same?
Hence it is can no longer simply be said that all those in any ‘irregular’ situation are living in a state of mortal sin and are deprived of sanctifying grace. More is involved here than mere ignorance of the rule … [One] can also recognize with sincerity and honesty what for now is the most generous response which can be given to God, and come to see with a certain moral security that it is what God himself is asking amid the concrete complexity of one’s limits. (Amoris Laetitia – 301, 303)
I (and others) said all along that it would be naïve in the extreme to imagine that the “irregular situations” to which Francis refers somehow excludes those that involve homosexual activity.
This attempt on the part of the blasphemous Argentinian heretic in white to effectively abrogate mortal sin is no less an assault on the Divine Law than “LGBT Pride Month;” in fact, even more so.
As goes the Church, so goes the world…
From the time of the Council to the present moment, Rome no longer hearkens to the voice of the Lord, but rather does it fall in line to march in lockstep with His enemies; including those who do so under the rainbow flag.
So, if you’re growing sick and tired of homosexual activism and the ubiquitous demands of their supporters, be sure to place the blame where it most belongs; on their churchmen bedfellows.
I’ll let Joseph Sciambra have the last word:
“I came of age in the post-Conciliar Church of the 1970s. Then, a sort of seemingly benign indifference pervaded every aspect of Catholic education. This created a strict adherence to the subjective theory that all the long-held doctrines and teachings of the Church were inherently relative to certain individuals and situations. We were essentially told to create our own personal Jesus – to make our own world; and, that is exactly what we did.”
Romans 1:32
If homosexuality could be celebrated with pride, why can’t we have special days and events to celebrate adulterous heterosexual behavior? If we’re going to celebrate sin, why leave anyone out?
BAM-!! Louie nails it one more time.
Also, let us not forget that “bishop” Lynch is the creep who allowed Terri Schiavo, an innocent Catholic woman, to die of “legal” starvation and dehydration without one word of protest, while forbidding the priests in his diocese to interfer. He ignored the extremely suspicious circumstances under which this was allowed in court while her loving family suffered along with Terri. How can we expect anything good to come from this monster. The animal rights people would have 24 hour protests and demonstrations if this slow and horrible death was allowed for dog. Where was the Catholic Church in all this? Do you think Bishop Lynch might be gay. Is the Pope Catholic? Oh, I forgot—wrong question.
This is a wonderful piece of writing, Mr. V.
Of course Amoris Laetitia was the first link in a chain that (in Bergoglio’s sick mind) will lead to the “legitimization” of sodomitical behaviour and “gay marriage”.
Those who still wish to refer to that depraved document’s “ambiguities” and “linguistic infelicities”, who beat around the bush instead of coming face to face with Truth, will have an accuser on their last day.
The evil Obama-Bergoglio axis goes on, and it is aided by those who retain a misguided sense of loyalty to this false leader and his false religion. “Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil.”
“Love desires the best for its beloved” I read “Liberalism is a sin” uses the same definition for “charity”. If you love someone you wish good on that person. It is common sense. But does anyone know the underlying theology? Why one wishes good on another person if he loves another person?
“Diabolic disorientation” -Our Lady of the Rosary at Fatima in 1917.
LGBT or hetero contraception, which is worse?
Rushintuit—One is sinful and disordered (unnatural), The other is sinful, but “ordered” (according to nature). LGBT is more damaging to society when we are told to believe this behavior must be accepted as ordered and natural. I may not have expressed myself properly.
In this month of June, the month which has been dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus long before the establishment of any “Gay Pride” celebrations, may all people who are looking for love in all the wrong places, discover their only true love in the heart of Christ.
Cor Iesu Sacratissimum miserere nobis!
Bishop Lynch distinguished himself as a champion of orthodoxy by closing two thriving Traditional Latin Masses in his diocese last year.
Coming soon to a legislature near you!
Burglary Appreciation Week
Drunks for Public Intoxication Rights
Hit & Run Driver’s Pride Month
Assault & Battery Gift Cards
Child Abuser of the Year Award
Drug Overlords and Dealer’s Parade
Embezzlement Week
Disorderly Conduct Monday
Wife Beater’s Hall of Fame
Auto Thieves Poverty Law Center
STD Donation Ribbons
Give Your Daughter Carcinogenic Hormones Month (Oh – I forgot, we already have that one…)
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Related, a great new conference:
+Williamson: Confusion Now Hath Made His Masterpiece
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hru8eVdnNv4
Francis the talking mule has just once again….and publicly….declared his hatred for Catholicism by stating that he believes that those who live together unmarried, and therefore in a constant state of mortal sin, are in a “real marriage” and “have the grace of a real marriage because of their fidelity.” What? WHAT? And people still think that this degenerate needs a trial by his peers (a true pope has no earthly peers and therefore cannot be judged as we should all know) to determine whether or not he is a PUBLIC AND NOTORIOUS heretic? Seriously, enough already with this guy. I was a Newark NJ cop for over two decades and for the most part was always in control of my emotions….this guy though, unlike the vast majority of God knows how many criminals I dealt with through the years, literally makes me shake with anger.
Sorry for the OT post but I just felt the need to say something about this latest travesty.
Louie V
Another great, great commentary. This is an “add to” the “keeper list” You and a few of your comrades in arms are watering holes in the vast desert aka “The Conciliar Church” One thing I have noticed about your writing is that the crazier things get in the DisneyVatican led by Pope Pinocchio, the clearer, calmer and penetrating your commentaries become. You seem to be able to go straight to the heart of the confusion and nonsense being foisted on the Faithful. You have the ability to put into words what folks are feeling intuitively but don’t know how to express it. I call it “All Truth, No Flash, Pure Value” A monthly contribution to your efforts is the best money spent on the net. PERIOD!
As to Bishop Lynch? Randy Engel outed him in her classic..”Rite of Sodomy” in 2006. He is retiring….thank God….it’s not soon enough. The damage he has done to souls is immeasurable. If by the Grace of God he makes it to purgatory, one would think he will be one of the very, very last ones out before closing it down.
Ya gotta be really careful with what you put on the net……Don’t want to give the ethically challenged any more crazy ideas than they have already…They are just as liable to say…”Why didn’t I think of that?”
In the meantime they are LOL funny…..for now.
But they or their derivatives could be the real thing in the future. Who in their right mind would have ever thought, let alone believed, we would be officially celebrating the perversions of the LGBT disorders
Louie rightly has criticized America for keeping Christ (even in the Protestant reading) out of the Declaration and the Constitution. Into that vacuum now has swooped a new religion: LGBTQism, complete with its own heresy hunts and purges of those that violate its tenets.
Ive read “Purgatory: explained by the lives and the legends of the saints” by Fr FX Schouppe twice. I dont mean to sound uncharitable but, when reading that together with the sermon of St Leonard of Port Maurice on the matter of “how few are saved”, I seriously doubt that lynch will ever see purgatory as it currently stands. When you have gotten into your 60’s, 70’s and beyond denying the Faith then you are almost surely lost.
Reparation, Reparation, Reparation strongly comes to mind. During the “Pride” day, visiting a church for adoration (that’s if you can find one open) is what I (God willing) hope to do.
“In the end my Immaculate Heart shall triumph” from Our Lady is a great consolation.
God bless
Let me take this moment to stress that countless people die every day and we need to concentrate on souls who are being lost every second. Mr bergoglio is a public heretic…and as such he should be cursed by all of us…..and if we dont curse him for the tool of satan that he is then we lend him credence….and if we lend him credence by calling him “pope” then the poor ignorant Catholic fool will continue to see him as the “pope” who speaks for the Faith and follow his useless words….and if that ignorant fool sees him as the person who speaks for the Catholic Church then that person is damned. It is our Catholic duty to denounce bergoglio constantly. The fact that some of us keep calling him “pope” only serves to further confuse those who do not know any better.
If sacramental marriages are not valid because there was not proper intent, then every N.O. Mass is NOT valid for the same reason!
Diabolic is the lack of care about or effort to stop, souls denying God and His Laws, and heading to damnation.
Thanks for that link. Excellent presentation from Bishop Williamson. He’s the only bishop that I know of who has the guts to speak out on the whole NWO system and ties it all in with the Faith, as it should be.
Time will tell if he’s right on Bishop Fellay.