Ushering in the Church of Love one heresy at a time.
The pseudo Church of all things loving, which is quite the opposite of the Catholic Faith, was once only a ridiculous ghost seen on television and in the minds of proud perverts. Suddenly it has manifested, much like Bruce Jenner, into an frightening reality from one end of the Catholic world to the other.
The Boston Globe’s smug CruxMag usually tries to restrain its glee at the victories of the Church’s enemies. It pretends to be somewhat Catholic in the hopes it will catch more flies.
Not anymore.
So what to make of same-sex attraction? The logic says: Since sexuality is inextricably linked to procreation, sex that is non-procreative is disordered. Good logic, but an invalid conclusion. Why? Because of our current understanding of the origins of homosexuality.
If it is not chosen, if it is something that seems to be (as current science continues to demonstrate) as much a part of human personality as opposite-sex attraction, then it is part of how God created a person. To suggest that an involuntary orientation deeply linked to the need for human connection and relationship was put there by God but meant to be suppressed and unused is to depict God as a wicked prankster placing insupportable, arbitrary obstacles in the path of people for whom he supposedly has infinite, creative love.
And here’s where we start to see the dead end of this chain of reasoning — this branch of the tree has just gone as far as it can grow, and is no longer contributing to the life of the whole. Regardless of whether anecdote and data are singular and plural, wherever I look and listen, there is someone who is troubled by the fact that a young person whom they love is more and more alienated from the Church because of the current teaching on homosexuality and same-sex marriage. If, as the current polling data seem to show, young people are dropping away at increasing, even unprecedented, rates on account of this issue, then this branch of the tree is literally a dead end.But another branch is producing real fruit, and it is that branch to which those supporters of same-sex marriage who still identify deeply with Christian tradition — with the “Church” in its full, proper meaning — are looking when they politely or impolitely defy public condemnation of same-sex marriage by clerics of their Church and march or vote in favor of it.
But make no mistake — they are being “swayed by their Church.” They know perfectly well that “their Church” preaches “This is how all will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another” (Jn. 13:35). They know that their Church preaches “God is love, and whoever remains in love remains in God and God in them” (1 Jn. 4:16).
They look at the same-sex couples they know who seek to be married, and they see mutuality, and commitment, and fidelity, sometimes in the face of overwhelming vitriol and resistance.
They see relationships that welcome and nurture children.
They see love. And they know what their Church preaches about that.
Our world today is everything gay everywhere all the time. We have transgender country singers, gay football players, men crying and whining on television, pronoun enforcers and kids punished for having a gender. No one is permitted to speak against it. Any communications will get you fired or sued. Gay is never a choice, as if people were snails.
Few are actually committed to being gay so why this enormous worldwide push from our overlords? What is their end game? How far will they reach into our Church? What will it be when they are through?
