Sins that cry out to Heaven for vengeance.
The sin of Sodom.
Suddenly in the later half of the 20th century, according to a few Biblical exegetes, we have realized that the sin of Sodom was actually inhospitality. This is contrary to over a millenia of Judeo-Christian tradition of course. In answer to this modern interpretation, a local priest once said that he would certainly consider being sodomized as an inhospitable act.
Sodom and Gomorrah
Los Angeles and San Francisco continue to emulate the ancient Cities of the Plain - or at least the inner city neighborhoods of West Hollywood and the Castro fill that bill. (Although Folsom St. is not part of the Castro.) On September 30 in San Francisco the annual leather event called the Folsom Street fair will take place. It is already being advertised with a mock photo depicting the Last Supper, with leather queens portraying the disciples and Christ, along with sex-toys spread about on the table. It doesn’t take a genius to recognize this as sacrilege and blasphemy, as well as a direct attack upon Christianity.
“The bread and wine representing Christ’s broken body and lifegiving blood are replaced with sadomasochistic sex toys in this twisted version of Da Vinci’s The Last Supper,” CWA said on its Web site.“‘Gay’ activists disingenuously call Christians ‘haters’ and ‘homophobes’ for honoring the Bible, but then lash out in this hateful manner toward the very people they accuse,” said said Matt Barber, CWA’s policy director for cultural issues. - CNSNews.com
Morality in the toilet.
The Folsom Street debauchery is a spectacle which provides no convincing power whatsoever that homosexual sex is anything but immoral and degrading. Gay activists can say whatever they want, proclaim their Christian faith that same-sex relationships are good, that most gay people live clean, moral lives, yet this celebration along with many other gay pride events really contradicts all of their propaganda.
“The most unimaginable and vile acts of debauchery are commonplace during the fair,” said Matt Barber, Policy Director for Cultural Issues with Concerned Women for America (CWA). “Senator Larry Craig was arrested and driven out of the Senate for allegedly soliciting public ‘gay’ sex, yet during this event the city of San Francisco suspends the law and allows ‘gay’ men and women to parade the streets fully nude, many having sex - even group orgies - in broad daylight, while taxpayer funded police officers look on and do absolutely nothing.” - LifeSiteNews
“Stop lying to one another.”- St. Paul, Colossians 3
Gay activists who claim that the gay lifestyle is clean and wholesome ought to make their voices heard loud and very clear that they will not tolerate this crap in their culture. Of course, if they do speak out it probably would not have much effect. I’m fairly certain active homosexuals who are religious remain in the minority, while most homosexuals seem to have no time for religion, much less traditional morality.
If you are a Catholic reading this and you have actively gay friends, I suggest you tell them in no uncertain terms that you object to this type of indecent behavior. I replaced the top photo with Bosch’s “Garden of Earthly Delights”. My apologies for posting a photo that may have been an occasion of sin to others struggling with same-sex temptation. I offered my hours at adoration today for all those with same-sex attraction issues.
September 26th, 2007 at 11:50 am
Sacred Heart of Jesus, have mercy on us!
September 26th, 2007 at 3:37 pm
Terry and putting salt on the open wound is the Mayor’s letter published in there promotion material. Reading made me feel I was truly living on a different planet … Welcome to Huxley’s Brave New World, and the New Paradigm of the new age. Chilling.
September 26th, 2007 at 3:38 pm
“their” poor proof reader …
September 26th, 2007 at 5:27 pm
I did a post on this on my blog and I had people telling me that the Folsom Street Sodomite gathering was no different than Spring Break for heterosexuals.
I pray that these people will see the error of their ways…
September 26th, 2007 at 7:30 pm
Oh, honestly, people.
Put the smelling salts away. Pop culture has been parodying the Last Supper FOR YEARS. If you’re only offended when the gays do it, well, then that shows your biases.
See a whole slew of parodies here:
http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/other_last_suppers_where s_the_outrage
September 26th, 2007 at 9:23 pm
Andrew - the issue isn’t really the Last Supper parody. Check out the sites: (Warning to those struggling with chastity, these sites are pornographic in nature - DO NOT click on them!)
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.thestreets ofsanfrancisco.com/folsom/images/folsom5s.jpg&imgrefurl=http ://www.thestreetsofsanfrancisco.com/folsom/&h=432&w=432&sz= 73&hl=en&start=4&sig2=fgNPW2X8dtOsDQA23wMRBg&um=1&tbnid=7_Hs D31agRX-sM:&tbnh=126&tbnw=126&ei=oCH7Rs7wIYe-iQHJiaDcDw&prev =/images%3Fq%3Dfolsom%2Bstreet%2Bfair%26svnum%3D10%26um%3D1% 26hl%3Den%26rlz%3D1T4GGIC_enUS221US221%26sa%3DN
And:
http://www.folsomstreetfair.com/
Nice culture, huh? Give me a defense for this shit.
September 27th, 2007 at 8:34 am
Andrew: I think any of us are offended when the Last Supper is parodied. If you think we are all prone to fainting spells, we wouldn’t be reading Terry’s blog! Terry never shirks from the difficult material and his regular readers know this. May God bless him for his powerful witness.
September 27th, 2007 at 9:28 am
Yeah that’s terrible BUT as one who lives in San Francisco I can say that not all gays (even ac tive ones) agree with this blasphemy and the Gay Activist scene is NOT embraced by all, mostly just the extremely loud obnoxious few.
But you know what’s also bad in th City and WAY more p[revalent than gay sex? The immense population of str8 couples living together without marriage and thus being the REAL threat to marriage and family life. Also the immense crowd of divorced people and their trail of broken homes.
Now gay people MIGHT account for 3% of a population, but the str8s who cohabitate and divorce at will account more than half…so which group is the REAL threat to marriage and family life? Which group should the public and the church be targeting for evangleization and for the reform of marriage acts in politics?
Think about it…does 3% of the population carry THAT much weight or are we simply another convenient scape goat so that the others can carry on with their affairs?
September 27th, 2007 at 9:56 am
Consider this:
Folsom Street Fair is not a gay event.
It is a leather event; a BDSM event.
Many gay people attend, but many straight people attend too. Look at the picture. I see three women and eleven men. None of the women are grouped with other women.
So why is this an outrage against the gay community (of which the leather scene is only a part, just like with straight people)? That’s an easy one. Because the whole smelling-salts nonsense was started by Concerned Women for America, which has a profoundly anti-gay agenda. So, if they can use this to their political advantage, and try to turn more people (like you, dear readers) against all gays, by using one provokative piece of art, that they happen not to like, then they are not above doing that.
Do not allow yourselves to get taken in by this. It really has nothing to do with anything larger than one small fringe group (leather, BDSM fethishists) not liking the same cup of tea as another small fringe group (anti-gay nonprofits like Concerned Women).
That’s it.
Peace to you all.
Andrew
September 27th, 2007 at 10:37 am
Dante: No one here is saying that marriages breaking up, people cohabitating without marriage is good thing. Sin is sin. Heterosexuals are as capable of sin as homosexuals.
Andrew: Yes, I know that many “straight” people go to these events in San Francisco and elsewhere. Is that a sign of acceptance or a sign of how mired in sin and scandal so many people in our society are? Both?
September 27th, 2007 at 2:04 pm
Cathy of Alex: Sorry, remind me again what’s sinful about BDSM?