Q&A Monday 17 August 2015: Gay Marriage - Brendan O'Neil, Katy Faust, Kelly O'Dwyer, Richard di Natale and Sam Dastyari

Link to Q&A Monday 17 August 2015. Guests: Brendan O'Neil, Katy Faust, Kelly O'Dwyer, Richard di Natale and Sam Dastyari.

http://iview.abc.net.au/programs/qanda/FA1407H029S00

A Third Way Between Gays and Bigots

A new documentary presents a strong case for the Catholic stand on homosexuality. Read more at MercatorNet


The Third Way from Blackstone Films on Vimeo.

Cardinal Dolan Makes it Simple for the Mainstream Media

Pope Francis Didn't Change the Church's Teaching on Homosexuality

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And let's not forget what Pope Benedict (Cardinal Ratzinger) said back in 1985 regarding the treatment of homosexuals:

"It is deplorable that homosexual persons have been and are the object of violent malice in speech or in action. Such treatment deserves condemnation from the Church's pastors wherever it occurs. It reveals a kind of disregard for others which endangers the most fundamental principles of a healthy society. The intrinsic dignity of each person must always be respected in word, in action and in law."
Cardinal Ratzinger, 1985. Letter to the Catholic Bishops of the World, regarding the treatment of homosexual people.

Why California’s Three-Parent Law Was Inevitable

September 19th 2012. Jennifer Morse. Catholic Exchange.

Can a child have three parents? If California State Senator Mark Leno has his way, children in California will be able to have three legal parents. Before we dismiss SB 1476 as another example of California Weird, we had best look into it more closely. After all, the bill has passed both houses of the California Assembly and is awaiting Governor Brown’s signature or veto.

I believe this development was inevitable, more inevitable in fact than the much-vaunted inevitability of gay marriage. Once we started trying to normalize parenting by same-sex couples and redefine marriage to remove the dual-gender requirement, we had to end up with triple-parenting.

A deeper look at the whole picture surrounding SB 1476 reveals that not only should the three-parent law fail, same-sex “marriage” should fail as well. As we will see, embedded in this bill is an appalling power-grab by the state, and a grotesque misrepresentation of the facts by the bill’s authors.

Why Normalizing Same-Sex Parenting Inevitably Led to Triple-Parenting

Continue Reading at Catholic Exchange

HIV/AIDS Industry keeps their head in the sand

HIV study reveals alarming trend showing younger men are more willing to take risks. The Australian, 12th December 2010.

AN Australian study of HIV transmission has revealed an alarming culture shift in which younger gay men appear more willing to take sexual risks and so become infected with the virus earlier.

Continue reading HIV study reveals alarming trend showing younger men are more willing to take risks | The Australian

SMITHSONIAN HOSTS ANTI-CHRISTIAN EXHIBIT

MORE STUPIDITY FROM THE USUAL SUSPECTS
November 30, 2010. Catholic League (USA)

The Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery is currently hosting an exhibit, "Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture," that features a video that shows large ants eating away at Jesus on a crucifix. The exhibit is replete with homoerotic images.

Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments as follows:

According to Penny Starr of CNSnews.com, David C. Ward, co-curator of the National Portrait Gallery, says the video, "A Fire in My Belly," is one of the "masterpieces" of this exhibit. We call it hate speech. Perversely, there is a plaque at the entrance to the exhibit that says the Gallery is committed to "the struggle for justice so that people and groups can claim their full inheritance in America's promise of equality, inclusion, and social dignity." Somehow Christians didn't make the cut.

The creator of this "masterpiece" video is dead of AIDS. But he did not die without blaming society for his self-destructive behavior. David Wojnarowicz said, "When I was told I'd contracted the virus, it didn't take long for me to realize that I'd contracted a diseased society as well." Who did he blame? Besides some politicians and government workers, he fingered "those thinly disguised walking swastikas that wear religious garments over their murderous intentions." So Father John did it.

At least Wojnarowicz bared his soul. Ward just spins. Like others who have attacked Christians before with their "art," he says the ants crawling all over Jesus represent "the lack of attention to Christian teachings." So the ants are actually giving Christians a wake-up call! How thoughtful.

It does not matter that private sources funded this exhibition: the majority of the money afforded the Smithsonian Institution comes from the taxpayers. Accordingly, I am writing today to the House and Senate Appropriations Committees asking them to reconsider future funding.

From Catholic League: For Religious and Civil Rights

UPDATE: Smithsonian Pulls Exhibit.

The Media, the Pope and the Gay Kiss-in.

 8 November 2010. Catholic League of Australia.

If you ever wanted proof that the media does not give a fair go to the Pope and the Catholic Church then here it is.

Yesterday, the Pope arrived in Barcelona to open the new Cathedral of the Holy Family. As he was driving to the Cathedral around 100 to 200 hundred gay people staged a ‘kiss in’. This is compared to the 250,000 pilgrims who were there supporting the Pope. The protesters only represented 0.08% of the crowd.

Who do you think the media decided to focus on? These are the headlines of a few major Australian and international news services.

Continue reading The Media, the Pope and the Gay Kiss-in.

Dramatic defeat of Iowa judges raises hopes for marriage amendment

 Des Moines, Iowa, Nov 5, 2010 (CNA/EWTN News).

When U.S. voters are asked whether or not their state should retain its judges every two years, many aren't quite sure how to make their decisions. But a majority of Iowa voters knew exactly what they were doing, when they voted against retaining three of the state's Supreme Court justices on Nov. 2.

In April 2009, Justices David Baker, Michael Streit, and Chief Justice Marsha Ternus agreed with four other state justices in ruling that the Iowa state constitution's equal protection clause implied a right of same-sex couples to marry.

Their ruling overturned a 1998 state law specifying that “only a marriage between a male and a female is valid.” Suddenly, homosexual “marriage” was legal in Iowa.

This year, three of the deciding justices were up for retention or rejection by voters. As election day approached, organizations opposing the redefinition of marriage invested significant funding and energy to make Iowa voters aware that this year's judgment on judges was far from routine.

This time, it was the voters' turn to make a dramatic change. On Tuesday, Baker, Streit and Ternus became the first judges ousted by Iowa voters since 1962.

Continue reading Dramatic defeat of Iowa judges raises hopes for marriage amendment :: Catholic News Agency (CNA)

New Twist to Same Sex Marriage

Single woman marries herself

If marriage can be anything you want it to be… Why not?

Oct 23 2010

A 30-year-old Taiwanese woman has put an unusual twist on the traditional white wedding by ditching the husband part and marrying herself.

PHOTOS: Woman marries herself

Office worker Chen Wei-yih said she wanted to show other single thirty-something women that they were not failures, media reported.

“I was just hoping that more people would love themselves,” Chen said.

Single woman marries herself (Warning: Ninemsn story. Treat with caution)

Safe Sex Failure

Australian HIV diagnoses hit 18 year high

Danny Rose  AAP  October 18, 2010

AUSTRALIANS newly diagnosed with HIV totalled 1050 during 2009, the highest number in almost two decades.

It was the fourth year in a row that new HIV diagnoses in Australia hovered around the thousand mark, and up significantly from about 700 cases annually seen during the late 1990s.

Australia had a "decreasing trend throughout the 1990s" for HIV transmission, University of NSW Associate Professor David Wilson said, but the trend had rebounded in the past 10 years.

Continue reading Australian HIV diagnoses hit 18 year high | Courier Mail

Hollywood and the usual anti-Christian cliches

"GLEE" TACKLES RELIGION

Catholic League, October 6, 2010

Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on last night's episode of the Fox show, "Glee":

The producers of "Glee" decided to address religion. A gay atheist was treated with sympathy for his victim status, the victimizer being Christianity, especially Catholicism. Judaism was treated with kid gloves and Islam got a pass. In other words, it was the usual Hollywood stuff.

The show revolved around a football player who sees an image of Jesus in his grilled cheese sandwich, labeling it "Grilled Cheesus." Throughout the show the audience was treated to such lines as "I think God is kind of like Santa Claus for adults. Otherwise, God's kind of a jerk, isn't he?"; "Asking someone to believe in a fantasy [religion]…however comforting, isn't a moral thing to do. It's cruel." References to Catholicism included mocking quips about "Sweet Holy Mother of God Academy."

The pivotal remark, which set the tone, was made by the gay atheist: "The reason I don't go to church is because most churches don't think very much of gay people. Or women. Or science."

The lines mouthed by the characters are a reflection of what Hollywood script writers and producers believe. Back in 1986, S. Robert Lichter, Stanley Rothman and Linda Lichter wrote a landmark book, The Media Elite. The three social scientists, not affiliated with conservative causes, found that the media elite had nothing in common with most Americans on the subject of religion: while 94 percent of Americans identified themselves as religious, only 50 percent of the media elite did. Even more striking, while 86 percent of the public said religion was important to them, 86 percent of the media elite said they seldom or never attend church. Studies since have shown that nothing much has changed.

Homosexuality and atheism are all the rage these days with the cultural elite. As "Glee" showed last night, so is ripping on Christians.

Catholic League: For Religious and Civil Rights

Geoffrey Robertson at Protest the Pope

Another elitist Atheist demonstrates he doesn't know what he's talking about.
The video shows the lies preached by Roberston:


Geoffrey Robertson speech at Protest The Pope march


And below, the facts Roberston chooses to ignore:

The Pope demeaning women? Demonising homosexuals? Wishing that IVF children had never been born?
The Pope has never demeaned women. As far as demonising homosexuals, here is what Pope Benedict, as Cardinal Ratzinger, said to the Catholic Bishops of the world in 1985 on the pastoral care of homosexual persons:

"10. It is deplorable that homosexual persons have been and are the object of violent malice in speech or in action. Such treatment deserves condemnation from the Church's pastors wherever it occurs. It reveals a kind of disregard for others which endangers the most fundamental principles of a healthy society. The intrinsic dignity of each person must always be respected in word, in action and in law."

Hardly demonising homosexuals.

And of course the Pope never said that he wished IVF children had never been born. What the Church teaches is that most artificial reproductive methods injure the dignity of the person conceived and should not be used. However, once conceived every human being has a right to be protected.

Maybe Robertson is suffering some mental disorder???

The Problems with Gay Marriage

EWTN's Raymond Arroyo interviews Dr Robert George who discusses numerous reasons as to why Same Sex Marriage should be rejected.

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New Courage apostolate in Oakland a sign of change

Catholic News Agency 22nd July 2010

A new chapter of the Courage apostolate has opened in Oakland to minister to Catholics and others who have same-sex attractions. A California Catholic paper said the event showed a “landmark shift” away from other regional groups’ dissent from Catholic teaching on chastity and homosexuality.

The formation of the chapter was announced in the July 19 edition of The Weekly, a chancery publication for the clergy, religious, employees and parish staff of the Diocese of Oakland.

“Do you know someone who identifies her/himself as Gay/Lesbian, Homosexual, or Same-Sex Attracted and feels that this keeps her/him from taking full part in the life of the Church? If so, consider talking to her/him about Courage where we believe that the Catholic Church welcomes all of her children and is our home,” the chapter’s notice read, according to the California Catholic Daily.

The national Courage website explains the apostolate’s outlook: “By developing an interior life of chastity, which is the universal call to all Christians, one can move beyond the confines of the homosexual identity to a more complete one in Christ.”

Continue reading New Courage apostolate in Oakland a sign of change, newspaper says :: Catholic News Agency (CNA)

Brisbane Courage.

'Gay cover-up must end'

By Gerard Charles Wilson - 11 April 2010
Surveys on clerical sexual abuse consistently show that at least eighty percent of abuse cases are about male religious abusing pubescent males. I have endlessly pointed out this fact that anyone with a normally functioning brain and not in the state of drug-induced hallucinations cannot walk around: homosexual priests abusing teenage boys are responsible for the overwhelming majority of cases of clerical sexual abuse.
I have endlessly pointed out that if eighty percent of the two percent of religious guilty of sexual abuse are homosexual then logically 'clerical' sexual abuse is not a function of being a cleric but of being a homosexual. Third, something I have not spoken much about, all this raises the critical question of how and why so many homosexual men made it through the seminary and on to ordination. This third point is one that still needs a lot of investigation and explanation.
Continue reading at gerardcharleswilson

The story we're not covering today...

By Diogenes at CatholicCulture.org
May 24, 2010 3:41 PM

... is a story about disruption of Pentecost Sunday Mass at the cathedral in Chicago. Because there wasn't a disruption.

Homosexual activists of the Rainbow Sash organization had threatened to confront Cardinal Francis George during the Mass. Instead, they claimed victory after they "entered" the cathedral. Which is not a terribly impressive achievement, nor even a propaganda victory, since the doors were open.