Read my previous post with the question:
What WOULD you stand for – and for what would you drop down onto your knees and into submission?
Well, no one that has been following the issue will be surprised at this (reformatted, emphasis mine):
Catholic Diocese in North Dakota Severs All Ties With Boy Scouts Over Gay Adult Troop Leaders
The Catholic Diocese of Bismark, North Dakota, is “formally” severing its churches, schools, and other institutions from the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) because of the latter’s decision to allow openly homosexual adults and employees to work in the Boy Scouts. The BSA’s executive committee voted to lift its century-old national restriction on “openly gay adult leaders and employees” on July 27. The Catholic Diocese of Bismark, headed by Bishop David Kagan moved swiftly to disassociate itself from the now pro-gay BSA.
I am quite sure that there will be those that will label this as straight up bigotry, believing that “progress & dignity” should trump deeply held religious beliefs.
“[E]ffective immediately, the Catholic Church of the Diocese of Bismarck and each and every one of its parishes, schools and other institutions, is formally disaffiliated with and from the Boy Scouts of America,” said Bishop Kagan in an August 3 letter. “If your parish sponsors a troop, your priest has been asked to inform those persons associated with the BSA of this action and to inform the BSA itself of this decision,” he said.
The Catholic Church teaches that homosexual persons are “called to chastity” and that “homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered” because they violate the natural law, the teaching from Scripture, and they “close the sexual act to the gift of life.” The Church, in its Catechism, further states that “under no circumstances” can homosexual acts “be approved.”
“I regret my decision but, in conscience as the Chief Shepherd of the Diocese of Bismarck, I cannot permit our Catholic institutions to accept and participate directly or indirectly in any organization, which has policies and methods, which contradict the authoritative moral teachings of the Catholic Church,” said Bishop Kagan.
So the backlash will be instant and severe. I’m quite sure that there will be calls to haul him and others in the Catholic Church to Star Chambers for being “oppressive”, “hateful”, and “bigoted”. There will be no calls from these kinds of folks to follow the Supreme Law of the land which would be the Constitution. In which, by the way, is the right to Free Association – the Right to associate with those of one’s own choosing and, conversely, to not be forced to associate with those they do not wish to. There will be calls that will be, however, to FORCE that participation in the name of “equality”.
And they will, once again, fail to remember their history where “Equality” was used to trump “Freedom”. Our nation was not founded on equality EXCEPT as an expression of The Rule of Law where all should be equal before that Law. We were, however, founded on the radical idea that our Freedoms are personal and individual and trump (yes, the word for today because of the debates!) “equality” which is just being used, wrongly, as a power grab OVER that freedom.
Now, I am not Catholic but they and the Mormon Church have borne the brunt of the militant Gaystapo attacks – evangelical and orthodox Christian churches will be next. Others?
Muslims will be left alone – the Gaystapo knows well enough that they really don’t want to attack that swarm of killer bees. And they don’t have to worry about the “mainline Protestant” Christian churches as they already neutered themselves and have already put themselves into post-Christian status and basically have become country clubs without the tee-times, the tennis courts, and pools. They have become bereft of “deeply held beliefs” having already chucked the theology of sin, hell, the divinity of Christ, original sin, and personal salvation. For them, there is nothing to give up as it had already been thrown away. For organizations like there, they are already empty and will believe in almost anything. Except for what their original mission was about.
(H/T: CNSNews)
