Conspiracy of Sins
15 March 2008 - 9 אדר ב' 5768 by Huw
According to Catholic News Agency (more on that in a minute) the RC Bishop of Motherwell thinks there is a “‘huge and well-orchestrated conspiracy’ by homosexual activists”. And he says of the Roman Church, “We neglect the gay movement at our peril”.
I want to ask you if you are able to see the giant conspiracy that’s taking place before our eyes, even if we didn’t see it at the time. I take it you’re beginning to see that there is a huge and well-orchestrated conspiracy taking place, which the Catholic community missed,” he said
Well, ok…
To think of gays as well-orchestrated is humorous: it’s clear he’s never been to even the local Gay Community Centre’s dance-planning committee meeting, let alone a full-on political meeting. But he’s right about the peril: although did our Lord worry much about knighting gay men like Sir Ian McKellen (as the Bishop seems to do) or would Jesus just reach out to them?
It’s been offered in comments posted by readers in these pages that when Christian leaders speak of “Conspiracy” in this way what they mean is that the Evil One is conspiring - no matter how disorganised his human dupes might be. I do wish a Conservative Cleric would have the Cojones to say so. But I think it’s far easier to point hate at actual human beings, at flesh and blood instead of “against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.”
I do love this passage:
In remarks about the legislative battle over civil unions and same-sex adoptions the bishop said that the “supreme moral values of liberty and equality” had been placed above the values of “truth and goodness” in society.
Well, yes. That’s what a democracy is. “Truth and Goodness” are relative. And even if you disagree with that, you have to admit that ideas of good and truth vary from culture to culture and from time to time. Modern democracies are filled with various cultures. It is not the place of gov’t to enforce one culture over another save when those cultures clash. Then, I think, it’s best to err on the side of the “supreme moral values of liberty and equality”
The bishop concluded his speech with a dramatic flourish saying, “Like Mel Gibson, who said, ‘I’m going to pick a fight’, so am I.”
I think this means he’s about to get drunk and reveal that it is Jews - not gays - that are the actual conspiracy trying to run everything. (He made some odd Holocaust Memorial references in his speech too, that the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust had to counter.)
The CNA, by the way, just lifted without attribution or links, whole swaths of text from this article in the Times of London - clearly plagiarism is not a sin against “truth and goodness” in the Roman communion as it would be, say, among bloggers.
