Catholic magazine attack(s/ed)?
15 January 2008 - 9 שבט 5768 by Huw
OK… Back when the Canadian laws and the UK marriage laws were passed I noted that I was thankful for our (US) preservation of the separation of Church and State. But I also noted that Churches should - soon - get out of the state business of “doing” the legal part of marriage. For if you do a state function you must do it by the state rules.
I’ve also said this about taxes. And, I think, if you do a state function AND you are free from paying your fare share of the taxes to that state… GRF. You play the game of secular politics and you’re going to get taken to the cleaner by the secular system. And you’ve no one else to blame but yourself.
I like England’s model for weddings: go to the registrar and get married. Then, if you wish it to be blessed by a religion, you may do so.
So when I clicked through on the Catholic News Agency’s Canadian Catholic magazine faces legal attack for criticizing homosexuals I expected to find people protesting church doctrine.
And through most of the article I think that’s what I hear. A religion should be free to teach its doctrine. Period. Catholic Insight seems to say that’s all it wants to do.
But then I read the following quote….
The magazine also reiterated its support for Catholic teaching that homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered, noting its long-time coverage of the political manifestations of the issue. “From its beginning in 1993, the magazine has traced and exposed homosexual activists for their attacks against Christians defending the traditional order in law and society and their use of derogatory language against all who stand in their way,” the magazine said.
“traced and exposed homosexual activists” sounds a bit stronger than “we opposed the marriage change in a democratic way, but we lost…”
And when I read the magazine itself feels they have been “speaking out against the activists who agitated for adding so-called sexual orientation to the Hate Crimes Act in 2003 and the legalization of same-sex “marriage” in 2005.”
I begin to get a sense of something other than “We’s all jus po’Catlics here, just teachin’ n’prayin, suh. When these nasty homos comes along…”
It sounds rather more like they’ve been beaten in a political game and now they are crying foul because the rule of the game are being enforced.
I will keep watching this story, but I think it’s interesting the Catholic Church isn’t getting nailed - just a magazine which seems to have no official ties to any official Catholic body and also the leader of something called the “Christian Heritage Party” which wants to govern Canada by “the inspired, inerrant written Word of God”. It sounds rather like our little Christian Dominionist movement down here.
I wonder if the magazine and the party are of one voice? Yo no ce. Like I said, there’s something else going on here.
