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Brews you can lose. 

Miller Brewing Co. is asking the organizers of the Folsom St. Fair to pull their logo from the ad promoting the gay festival in San Francisco.  The posters are already out there.  Miller’s move, though symbolic, is better late than never.  However, they should withdraw sponsorship entirely.    Here is the story:

Responding to pressure from Christian groups, the Miller Brewing Co. is asking organizers of a “gay” street celebration in San Francisco to remove its logo from a promotional poster portraying Jesus Christ and his disciples as “half-naked homosexual sadomasochists.” - WND

Readers of this blog have been sending in their complaints to Miller as well.  Good going! 

The diabolical aspect of the underbelly of gay culture.

I have no proof for this assertion, except anecdotal testimony and that which is debased (and flaunted) in homosexual sexual practice and literature or media.

I bring this up because of the preceding post on the upcoming Folsom St. Fair, taking place this week in San Francisco.  A reader sent me an email because the photo I posted of two shirtless gay men in harnesses was too provocative for him, and he said he couldn’t visit my site because of it.  I took the photo down, not realizing how strong temptation can be to anyone struggling with sexual issues.

Fetishism

Fetishes are often used in pagan ritual and they are useful in deviant sexual practices as well, as pornography often illustrates.  The leather scene in gay culture is replete with sexual fetishes, otherwise known as role-play costumes and sex toys.  (Heterosexuals use fetishes too.)  The photo I posted of two male bare-backs sporting harnesses reminded me that many of the costumes gay people don to express their sexuality have an element of fetishism about them.  Which may be one reason why this man was aroused by the image.

Without doubt there has long been a cult aspect to the homosexual lifestyle; special terminology, symbolic dress and fetishism, sexual practices that include group sex or orgies that sometimes  appear to have a parallel with ancient pagan cult worship.  (Think bath-houses.)  I know- it sounds crazy - AND I know every “out” gay person does not engage in these practices.  (Don’t ask them about the pornography they view.)  Although anyone who supports GLBT issues, by association and implication, ultimately supports the rest.  (Yes Christian parents who support GLBT issues of your  gay children, you do.)

Idolatry.

“Put to death whatever in your nature is rooted in earth; forncation, uncleanness, passion, evil desires, and that lust which is idolatry.” - Colossians 3:5.  Curiously, the current translation used for the liturgy  reads, “that lust which is greed” - how did they come by that?

The element  of idolatry in homosexual culture is obvious.  For instance, the glorification and objectification of the male physique and genatalia is paramount in gay culture.  (Likewise, in contemporary culture in general, this idolatry of the  body is pervasive.)  Most homosexual publications exploit the sexualized male anatomy, as does homo-erotic art.  It is right there - in your face.

Exegetical lies.

Christian homosexuals  insist that St. Paul and Old Testament prohibitions against homosexual sex were really condemnations of pagan sexual practices involving idolatry and male temple prostitutes.  In claiming this, they insist that Paul would have been more tolerant of non-cultic homosexual relationships.  I think that is a huge leap.  Huge! 

I think many people are genuinely naive to the absolute pagan dimension in the homosexual movement within our culture and Church.  I doubt very much people understand the worldwide diabolic delusion that contemporary civilization is experiencing.

“Resist, solid in your faith”. - 1 Peter 5:9 

Anyone strugglng with same-sex temptation, along with all Christians who struggle against evil in their lives, must realize that the  struggle is a very serious spiritual combat.  In Ephesians, St. Paul exhorts us:

“Our battle is not against human forces but against the principalities and powers, the rulers of this world of darkness, the evil spirits in regions above.” - Ephesians 6:12

If I am wrong and there is not a pagan or diabolic dimension to gay culture, one surely cannot deny how deeply sexualized gay culture is, and how the fetishism involved in that culture affects those coming out of the lifestyle.

[Art: The Rape of Ganymede by Zeus.] 

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.  

From the Imitation…

“What a man cannot amend in himself or others he must bear with patience until God ordains otherwise.

Think that perhaps it is better so, for your trial and patience, without which our merits are little worth.

You must, nevertheless, under such impediments, earnestly pray that God may vouchsafe to help you, and that you may bear them well.” - Chapter 16: 1

We’ve been told.

Cardinal Bertone has once again come out and declared that the Third Secret of Fatima has been revealed in it’s entirety.  He also said this:

“Cardinal Bertone noted that sometimes there is a notable “spreading of supposedly supernatural messages,” often with apocalyptic undertones.

“We need to avoid the danger of a ‘Church of apparitions,’ distrustful of the Church’s hierarchy,” he said. - Zenit 

There are a few other factions in the Church who spread distrust of the Church’s hierarchy; some are bloggers, some are trads, some are dissenters.  I guess we have to be careful.

Works for me.

The lesbians only wanted one baby.

Remember the story of the two women who claimed rights over one child, and King Solomon had to decide the case?  His offer was to cut the child in half and give equal halves to the claimants in order to determine which woman was the real mother.

Though the Australian case of two mothers suing because their in vitro pregnancy resulted in two children, when they only wanted one, is vastly different from the Biblical tale, perhaps the wisdom of Solomon is needed to throw such a ludicrous case out of court.  Here is the story:

A lesbian couple in Australia are suing their doctor after they had twin girls from an in vitro fertilization (IVF) procedure when they only wanted one child.

The two women are seeking more than A$400,000 ($340,000) in damages to help pay for the cost of raising the second child, including private school fees, saying they had made it clear to their doctor that they only wanted one baby.

The twins are now 3 years old and the civil case, the first of its kind in Australia, has prompted debate about the value of children and the role of parents.

“The litigation involving twins already 3 years old undermines the importance of parenthood,” conservative government Senator Guy Barnett said on Thursday. - Reuters

“Colder than a witch’s  teat.”

Or a lesbian’s.  “Daughters, your mommies only wanted one of you.”  That is just cold, isn’t it?  Without going into why I believe same-sex couples should not be allowed to adopt children, it is obvious no one can stop gay women from bearing their own children in or out of vitro.  The question this case raises however, concerns the morality of selective births in general.  (As Catholics we know this is immoral, clearly the culture doesn’t.)

Selective birthing. 

People choosing the sex of their children, aborting them if there is any indication of physical or mental defect, selecting the correct number to be born in the case of multiple births, and so on.  I think there is no clearer indication of the breakdown of morality in contemporary society than this modern parenting practice, which is only getting worse.

“It is also vain to desire children, as some do in upsetting and troubling the whole world with their longing for them… Christ says of these people, that they circle the earth and the sea in order to enrich their children, and they make them children of perdition twofold more than they themselves are. [Mt. 23:15]” - John of the Cross, Ascent III, 18:5  

Today is the feast of one of the most beloved saints in the Russian Church, St. Sergius of Radonezh, founder of the famous Trinity Monastery, pictured above.   Though canonized by the Russian Orthodox Church in 1452, his cult was approved by Pius XII for the Roman Catholic Greek-rite Church.

I call him the “teddy bear” of Russian ascetics, because of his fondness for wild nature; it is said bears would eat from his hand.  He also had frequent visions of the Blessed Virgin and was reknowned for his mysticism.  He is one of the principal patrons of Holy Russia. 

The Imitation of Christ

Many pious Catholics read this wonderful book, yet many others do not.  St. Therese of Lisieux knew the entire book by heart.  It is a treasury of the spiritual life.

“If you know not how to meditate on high and heavenly things, rest on the passion of Christ, and willingly dwell in his sacred wounds.

For if you flee devoutly to the wounds and precious stigmas of Jesus, you shall feel great comfort in tribulation; neither will you have much regard of being despised by men, but will easily bear up against detracting tongues.

Christ was also in this world despised by men, and in his greatest necessity forsaken by his acquaintance and friends in the midst of reproaches.”  - Imitation Bk. II, Chp. 1

Rejoice!

Imagine. 

The Holy Father called for the right of all people to change their religion in a plea for religious liberty directed at Islamic nations.  Hopefully, everyone is aware of the very real persecution of Christians in several Islamic countries, and not just in Iraq.  He stated:

Yesterday, near Rome, the 80-year-old pontiff made a speech in “defence of religious liberty”, which, he said “is a fundamental, irrepressible, inalienable and inviolable right”.

In a clear reference to Islam, he said: “The exercise of this freedom also includes the right to change religion, which should be guaranteed not only legally, but also in daily practice.”  - Pope Benedict’s rebuke to Muslim nations.

Freedom to change.

Another thought came to mind in reference to his words; that of dissident Catholics who seek to undermine Church teaching and discipline.  In the West religious liberty is still extant, so why don’t these people who want the Church to change her teaching on divorce and remarriage, homosexuality, abortion and contraception, and so on, simply change religions and leave the Roman Catholic Church in peace?

Most dissidents, if not all, resent the Pope and the hierarchal structure of the Church, and are opposed to Church teaching and tradition anyway.  In effect, they are really no longer Roman Catholic, so why not change religion and become Universalist or Old Catholics?  It would certainly be more honest.

Today, in this country at least, one always has the freedom to change one’s religion - or just stop believing all together if one chooses.  There is no prohibition against that.

(Art: Image of Our Lady of Mercy whose feast it is today.)