No it’s truth, we give in to Liberals so much we are afraid of say anything wrong, I say it’s high time to throw off stupidity that liberals have placed on America.That is your opinion and you are entitled to it. I’ll stick to mine and we can discuss this in heaven.
Watch uncharitable remarks. Last time I heard they were in violation of forum rules. Calling people stupid is uncharitable.
Taking things out of context, typical liberal tactic. http://s35.photobucket.com/albums/d189/dimebar_probably/Smileys/th_DOh.gif If you notice I never called anyone stupid.
Then allow me to point out the stupidity of conservatism sometimes, w/o calling anyone stupid.
I’m out and have no intention of going back. If you don’t like that, there’s a vacancy in the closet and you can hide from me in there.
Time will tell, until then I will pray that your sickness heals.
So are you really Catholic or just follow what you want to, that’s known as Protestantism
The slurs that Don Imus and Michael Richards chose to use were racial slurs, having to do with part of the fundamental identity of the persons that they were referring to. Conversely, there is no equivalent authentic identity for those who experience same-sex attractions. To use a racial slur is to disparage an individual’s identity and denies them the full dignity due to a being made in the image and likeness of God. To use the word “f*g” or any of its variants calls attention, not to the person’s identity, but to his behavior, which is a loathsome and hedonistic misuse of the sexual faculty. As such, the behavior demands absolutely no respect from any of us, as does the human person, and we should be free to refer to it in whatever way we find most appropriate.
You are quite diseased, I feel greater pity for you than I do myself who I am unable to walk. Your condition if you actively engage will lead you to hell.Thank you for your concern, but I am not ill
also thank you to stlouismb
I have to say I think you’re way off on this one. I agree with your logic up to the point where you say that Imus’ and Richards’ slurs attacked the fundamental identities of the people they insulted. I have to say I’m surprised that you wouldn’t continue with this line of thought regarding use of any slurs toward homosexuals. Since a person’s sexual orientation does not constitute the whole of who they are, reducing a person to the status of “f*g” or anything else takes that orientation and pigeonholes the entire person into it, creating the very problem we’d hope to avoid in the first place-making a derisive term toward someone engaged in sin because we’ve neglected to separate hatred of the sin from the sinner. I think this is completely un-Christian and unbecoming of anyone who strives to live up to the moral teachings of the Catholic Church.
It surprises me that you would think same-sex attractions formed any sort of valid component to a person’s identity. They do not anymore than does a cancerous tumor or a missing limb. Moreover, Scripture teaches that the attractions manifest themselves in response to the free and culpable choice of the individual to reject God. (1) As such, the word “fag” cannot pigeonhole a person’s identity into the sin they commit beyond that person’s own erroneous perception of him- or herself. Since their minds are clouded by sin, it would be unchristian to enable these individuals’ flawed reasoning by giving it any sort of credence whatsoever.
I neither need nor desire your pity – save it for yourself.
You would do well to read Matthew 23 wherein Jesus, after identifying the teaching authority they hold by virtue of the chair of Moses, proceeds to call the Pharisees hypocrites six times, blind guides twice, blind generally twice, fools, whitewashed tombs, serpents, a brood of vipers and children of Gehenna. (1) He even called St. Peter “Satan.” (2) Calling people names that they would find objectionable was an important part of Christ’s ministry. If you cannot find it in your heart to live by this explicit and loving example Christ provided, then I suggest that it is not people like I who should hesitate to call themselves “Christian.”Where does anyone get off misrepresenting Christianity through namecalling? It is unchristian. I repeat Jesus could have called prostitutes by that w wordbut chose not to. Mother Teresa called homosexuals “friends of Jesus”. If we cannot find the same in our hearts, we do not have the right to call ourselves Christian. I will follow these examples rather than some of the posters in this thread.
I don’t think same sex attractions form a “valid component” of a person’s personality, I think they are instrinsically disordered and that acting upon them is sinful, as per the teaching of the Catholic Church.
I am not buying it for one minute. I will practice my Christianity by hanging out intentionally with the sinners. Sticks and stones…
And the same Christ said prostitutes and tax collectors are getting ito the kingdom before the Pharisees. Which only goes to prove my point that his harsher words were directed to those in charge rather than the sinners. We can play the game of quoting scripture back and forth. That is what the devil did with Jesus. It didn’t work. That is why I then turn to the saintly example of Mother Teresa who called these people friends of Jesus, not f*gs.