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tmellin
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We (Catholics and society at large) believe that “racism” is inherently evil. A simple example would be that it’s wrong to believe that there is something wrong with being (genetically) ‘black’. Good Catholics teach their children this, yet good Catholics also teach their children that homosexuality is not good. This is partly because the nature of one’s sexual orientation is substantially different than the nature of one’s race, as this example illustrates:
School-appropriate displays of “African-American Heroes” cannot be opposed on moral grounds, such opposition–in the secular vernacular–would be racist. The case of a “Homosexual Heroes” display, though, is substantially different. “White” children can’t “become (genetically) black” (without a miracle), but children of a heterosexual orientation can become homosexual if they learn about it, are attracted to it or otherwise become involved with it.
In general terms: homosexuality is principally defined by daily behavior, whereas race is principally defined by lifelong, unchangeable genetic code. For example: any adult who begins a homosexual life tomorrow is considered homosexual, and he is no longer considered homosexual if (for example) he stops, marries a woman, conceives a child with her, and never returns to his old behavior (see gaytostraight.org). Regardless of one’s behavior, though, one cannot choose to have a different race.
Since our current administration is steadily promoting civil rights-style legal constructs for those who are of homosexual orientation, will we soon be told that Catholics are guilty of “something-ism”, and deserving of the same penalties and punishments as racists? Will our schools be banned, or perhaps taken over by the federal government as a racially-segregated school might be?
School-appropriate displays of “African-American Heroes” cannot be opposed on moral grounds, such opposition–in the secular vernacular–would be racist. The case of a “Homosexual Heroes” display, though, is substantially different. “White” children can’t “become (genetically) black” (without a miracle), but children of a heterosexual orientation can become homosexual if they learn about it, are attracted to it or otherwise become involved with it.
In general terms: homosexuality is principally defined by daily behavior, whereas race is principally defined by lifelong, unchangeable genetic code. For example: any adult who begins a homosexual life tomorrow is considered homosexual, and he is no longer considered homosexual if (for example) he stops, marries a woman, conceives a child with her, and never returns to his old behavior (see gaytostraight.org). Regardless of one’s behavior, though, one cannot choose to have a different race.
Since our current administration is steadily promoting civil rights-style legal constructs for those who are of homosexual orientation, will we soon be told that Catholics are guilty of “something-ism”, and deserving of the same penalties and punishments as racists? Will our schools be banned, or perhaps taken over by the federal government as a racially-segregated school might be?
