Zahmir:
First of all, in response to the original “pro-homosexual ‘National Coming Out Day,’” let it be said that there is nothing EVIL with being a homosexual, and in fact, I would argue that it is better to be true to yourself and live as a Catholic than to lie about your identity. If gays and lesbians want to assert their individuality, then great for them. However, as I’m sure has been said in other posts, once they act about those homosexual orientations, then a sin has been committed. This is a different issue. Nothing is wrong, however, with being proud of who you are.
I don’t see why you would encourage people to be proud of a psychological disorder like homophilia. Following that line of reasoning, I suppose we should promote pride for other so-called “sexual orientations” like these:
**Exhibitionism ** - involves people who are sexually aroused by the idea of exposing their genitals to a stranger.
**Fetishism ** - involves people who are sexually aroused by nonliving objects.
**Frotteurism ** - involves people who are sexually aroused by the idea of touching and rubbing against a nonconsenting person.
**Pedophilia ** - involves people who are sexually attracted to prepubescent children (usually 13 years or younger).
Sexual Masochism - involves people who are sexually aroused by being “humiliated, beaten, bound, or otherwise made to suffer.”
Sexual Sadism - involves people who are sexually aroused by causing the psychological or physical suffering of a victim (e.g., “restraint, blindfolding, paddling, spanking, whipping, pinching, beating, burning, electrical shocks, rape, cutting, stabbing, strangulation, torture, mutilation, or killing”).
Transvestic Fetishism - involves people who are sexually aroused by cross-dressing.
**Voyeurism ** - involves people who are sexually aroused by watching unsuspecting strangers have sex.
**Telephone Scatologia ** - involves people who are sexually aroused by making obscene phone calls.
**Necrophilia ** - involves people who are sexually attracted to corpses.
**Partialism ** - involves people who are sexually attracted to exclusively one part of the body.
**Zoophilia ** - involves people who are sexually attracted to animals.
**Coprophilia ** - involves people who are sexually aroused by feces.
**Klismaphilia ** - involves people who are sexually aroused by enemas.
**Urophilia ** - involves people who are sexually aroused by urine.
Finally, phrases like: “being true to your self/identity” & “assert your individuality” are simply liberal slogans meant to mask the true meaning behind their agenda to destroy traditional values.
Here is an exerpt from the article “Right Ways and Wrong Ways to Influence Peopel” by Alice von Hildebrand. It can be found in the November 2005 issue of This Rock.
Slogans
Slogans - especially those designed to mask or distort the reality of what they convey - are rampant. “Death with Dignity,” “pro-choice,” “homophobia,” “elitism,” and “sexism” are examples. Once largely the province of politics, today they are epidemic in all domains of human life and win assent from people who fail to recognize that they are being manipulated and are reacting to irrational feelings, unfounded sympathies, or antipathies. They replace arguments and proofs, skirting man’s reason. In colleges and universities they foster academic deterioration, degrade learning, and anesthetize logic - all enemies of wisdom and truth. By acting on man’s emotions, they promote intellectual inertia.
Some Catholics employ slogans to win assent to their agendas. Cleverly chosen words - Dark Ages, ghetto mentality, triumphalism, and paternalism, for example - can trigger wild though unfounded enthusiasm or vicious hatred."
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