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January 24, 2023 09:28 AM UTC
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Sorry, I refuse to be preached at about the morality of LGBT issues by a guy in a dress.
Well for sure it is the groomers that have something to do with it… but the groomers aren't trans people.
This bishop is no better than Chaput, his predecessor. Both were, and are, morally wrong. Like far right evangelicals, Aquila supports “religious liberty” only if it advances Catholic dogma.
Three years ago, Chaput tendered his letter of resignation, as was his obligation having reached the age of 75. The Pope, though not required to accept it, did so quickly and replaced Chaput in Philadelphia. Aquila is on the clock: 2.5 years until his involuntary retirement. Hopes and prayers.
Isn't Freedom of Religion also Freedom From Religion?
"Wonder why the churches are empty?" Perhaps it's sanctimonious sermons like that.
Couldn't have anything to do with the whole "molesting children" thing. Nah. No way…
Just how many transgender former parishioners do they think there are?
“Our critics charge that the Catholic Church is discriminating against those who identify as gay or transgender, but it isn’t discriminatory to tell someone you think his beliefs don’t conform to nature—it’s an act of charity.”
He can Google animals expressing homosexuality and transgenderism but no animal other than humans have created complex religious beliefs for their own benefit. The very construct of the belief of a supernatural being invalidates the natural world.
Also, about 1% of humans are born with some sort of anomaly related to a flaw in the 23rd pair of chromosomes. Are they excluded from his church, too?
According to a study by the American Enterprise Institute one third of Americans have stopped attending church over the past three years.
I guess I didn't realize that one third of Americans were trans.
Casting blame and condemning, instead of focusing on how to win people back, is just not a great strategy for winning people back.
Huh … my reading finds …
Not a thing about worrying about transexuals, homosexuals, or furries.
No mention of church attendance, either.
Cross-checking in the Old Testament:
We can certainly argue about "what is justice?" and how we would recognize a love of mercy … but I think it would be VERY hard to be humble while walking in a resplendent chasuble in purple with a matching zucchetto.
Maybe your churches are empty because of your hate mongering.
Or, maybe, your potential parishioner parents don't want their sons molested by priests.
Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and all thy mind.
This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.
On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.
Matthew 22:37-40
There is not a footnote at the bottom of the page that says “except for transgender, gay, or anyone else someone cares to dislike or discriminate against.”
Blaming the emptying of the pews on Critical Race Theory and the transgender community is not only false, it is a gross, perhaps intentional, misrepresentation of what has caused the decline of the Christian religion in the United States. The evangelical movement and the Catholic church have become mere appendages of the Republican Party. When religion becomes identified as part of a political party it harms itself. It alienates large swaths of the public.This has happened throughout history here and in other nations.
Finally, how the archbishop can hang this around CRT is beyond my comprehension. CRT is the study of how racial and bigoted attitudes have impacted our laws in the past. An example is the covenants that in the past were attached to deeds conveying real estate or ones in home owners association documents that stated no African Americans, Asians, Jews or other defined backgrounds could own property in a given area or specific piece of property. The U.S. Supreme Court found such restrictions unconstitutional decades ago, but the example reflects the attitudes Americans had in the past which in the end were implemented and supported by our laws. If anything, the archbishop should be rejoicing that such studies have been conducted because they expose, enlighten, and give us guideposts so that such attitudes and actions never happen again. Its all part of loving our neighbor as thyself.
^^^THIS^^^
I'm sick of hypocritical bigots and their bronze age mythology continuing to fuck up the human species. Haven't they done enough the last two thousand years?
As always, you gotta wonder how many children that old man in a dress has raped over the years.
Just can’t figure out what CRT has to do with church attendance.
Certainly, any faith group should be having us face our history and atone for the sins of our country and our predecessors.
You don't understand Catholicism.
You are not taught to think critically, which is what CRT is all about. In fact, you are not taught to think at all.
You are taught to memorize approved knowledge which has been handed down from high authority. No questions asked. Like Pavlov's dog, you give the right answer to the right question.
If you think outside the box, you get punished whether it be getting the wooden ruler on the knuckles by Sister Piety in the Catholic school, or whether it be the hapless Galileo getting "cancelled" by the Pope.
When it comes to CRT, the Catholic Church is afraid, it is very afraid.
You had Sister Piety? I had Sister Mary Holy Water.
Nothing tops these ladies of the cloth went it comes to vows of obedience…..
meet our nuns (thesisters.org)
Men who molest children, or who tolerate or excuse those who do, cannot and should not be taken seriously when they talk about morality. Mr. Aquila is a hypocrite.
Viva Papa Francesco…
The AP Interview: Pope says homosexuality not a crime
Nothing like a good religious article to stir up the Godless KOOKS so they can use this echo chamber to convince themselves how wonderful it is to not be accountable for their actions. No judgement! A life altering bet.
The existence of a made-up deity is not a necessary condition for accountability.
I can guarantee there are not that many of us Transgender people to depopulate his little church. Perhaps his ignorance of life is doing it?
What is sad is in the mid 70's the Roman Catholic Church accepted Trans people with open arms. Gay's of course were not publicly accepted. I know many RC people who still try to be part of the parish inspite of the hate directed towards them.