But there is no gay-agenda.
The Archbishop of Genoa, Angelo Bagnasco is currently under guard for threats against his life for having stated Church objections to same-sex marriage. Media likes to say he compared homosexuality to pedophilia and incest, yet that is not what he said. From LifeSite News, we have what he said in context:
“Archbishop Angelo Bagnasco of Genoa, who was appointed last month to lead the Italian Bishops Conference, is spearheading efforts of the Catholic Church in Italy against legislation giving unmarried unions – including same-sex ones – legal status and benefits.
“Why say ‘no’ to forms of legally recognised co-habitation which create alternatives to the family? Why say ‘no’ to incest?” the Archbishop said at a meeting of Church workers, according to the Italian journal, La Repubblica.
“Why say ‘no’ to the pedophile party in Holland?” Bagnasco stated, referring to the Dutch Brotherly Love, Freedom and Diversity party, which lobbies to reduce the age of consent from 16 to 12 and legalize child pornography.” - LifeSite News
Gay activists in Italy and elsewhere have taken offense to the Archbishop’s questioning the morality of same-sex unions. In Genoa the cathedral has been vandalized while the Archbishop is receiving threat against his person, for his witness to Catholic teaching. If the graffiti is credible, it comes from communist sources, and the infamous “Red Brigade” - which I believed to be pretty much defunct - unless the Italian gay activists are associated with them in some manner.
Under armed guard.
“The threats follow a strongly-worded attack Archbishop Angelo Bagnasco made on government plans to give legal rights to unmarried couples.
The first slogan - Shame on you, Bagnasco - was scrawled on the doors of his cathedral a week ago.
A pro-Church paper has dubbed the attacks “spray-paint terrorism”.
Over the weekend the words “Death to Bagnasco” appeared elsewhere in the city - accompanied by the Communist hammer and sickle, and the five-pointed star of the far-left Red Brigades terror group.
Police have taken the threats seriously enough to post an officer at the bishop’s offices and to increase armed patrols in the area.”- BBC News
Sounds like persecution for the faith to me.
If you have read this blog for any time, you may remember my post on Elton John’s statement that religion should be banned. People such as Rosie O’Donnell blame religion for all the wars in the world. With the recent attack upon the Archbishop of Genoa we see how public this hatred of the Church has become.
In the 1980’s a former novice from the same monastery I had entered, came to visit me after he had graduated from Catholic University in Washington. He had been offered a job with the infamous Dr. Curran. While at Catholic U my friend discovered he was gay, and immediately became an activist. (You know how impetuous young men can be.)
I laughed at the time, when he told me he was involved in a group formulated upon the Red Brigades in Italy, with the intentions of assassinating John Paul II when he had visited the U.S. -I can’t remember which visit of the Pope, probably the first. Obviously they had failed, since he was telling me the story. The group had neither the organizational skills or the means to do anything at the time. I dismissed the entire story, attributing it to his radical change of lifestyle. (In other words - I did not believe him.) I’ve never seen him since.
In relating this anecdote, I’m simply revealing why I believe there is an organized agenda by gay activists to not only secure rights for themselves, but to change culture and destroy the Church. I’m in no way suggesting there is a genuine murderous intent amongst these people, yet the threats against the Archbishop do indicate something more sinister is developing in the ‘revolution’ - and it is not as if it hadn’t been thought of before. As more and more Churchmen speak out, the more obvious this agenda becomes.
Yet “they” insist, there is no gay agenda.
