This is a good portrait of the vile group to which a local LA bishop urged us to respond only with “dialogue”— at least until the outcry from the Faithful embarrassed the USCCB into bestirring itself to call for a day of reparation. No protest that might be visible to the world, of course; too confrontational.
Now, prayer is a very good and necessary thing. But it isn’t a substitute for effective action within the natural order. If we don’t oppose evil ourselves in the ways He has made available to us, why should He think we’re serious when we ask for His help?
I get a lot more comments in my email box than I get here. Here is an email discussion resulting from this post. Even though this piece is not about homosexuality or the transgender controversy but a description of the outrageous, lewd, and crude things the SPI does to mock the Catholic Church, I received this from a friend who had a daughter and then a son. The daughter from toddlerhood refused to wear a dress or do anything typically feminine. Now my friend in her holiday letter talks about her "two boys." I have no idea how far the transition has gone with her child formerly known as a girl, except she now has a beard. But anyway, my friend first sent this to me: "Know and understand before printing and making judgement," and she included a blurb from the https://www.thesisters.org/ about their charity work. I replied: "Thanks for reading my post about the SPI. You sent me what they claim to be doing. I simply recorded what they admit they are doing. For example, the man whose religious name refers to coming in your ass (Sister Cuminja Wrasse), said this, “
"Sister Cuminja Wrasse and I were talking about the common accusation that the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence mock Roman Catholic nuns. ‘What’s your response?’ I asked. ‘I say, “You’re absolutely right,’"
She replied,
"This is a much longer conversation about how the church treats and encourages it's members to treat the LGBTQ community. So "mocking" means to show the LGBTQ community that unlike their religious family, the sisters support the LGBTQ youth and adults to be who they are and not feel they are slime as the church makes them feel, with the side effects of being kicked out of their homes by religious families and having to live homeless. The Sisters are using an outrageous form to prove the point that people can be individuals in any way they want as long as they don't hurt anyone. They are saying, we support you and offer you food and love to be who you are, and who you were meant to be. Jesus would have accepted them, as many interpretations of the Bibles show that Jesus was gay. [Disgusting slander! ED.]
"More to follow if you are interested, and yet I've had too many of these conversations where both sides are strong about their point and it does not get to any better understanding leading to the problems with our nation, today. I fear for my children."
I wrote back, "The Church does not hate the sinner but the sin. The Church does not encourage its members to treat people with same-sex attractions as slime. But really in all human beings, there is a normal ick factor. I’ve heard young people of any religion wonder what do male homosexuals do, bump their penises together? And what do women do?
"I always think of the story of how the Native American father took his son to the hardware store and pointed out the differences between the nut and the bolt. The nut fits into the bolt, You can’t have two nuts or two bolts working together to build anything.
"M*: Should we be mocking the people we don’t agree with?
"The Church does not make them feel like slime. It’s like the old Irish priest said, “It’s not the hetero- or the homo-, it’s the sex outside of marriage that God has forbidden." For our own good.
"Not everyone can express their sexual feelings. If you are married and are attracted to another person than your spouse, you may suffer but you have to have self-control. Same for single people like me.
"Since the [function of the ]sexual organs are [is] intrinsically linked with reproduction, any use of the organs outside of that is a perversion. Sex belongs in marriage and to deny its procreative aspect is also a perversion, like vomiting after a meal to thwart the nourishing function of food.
"Jesus loves everyone, but He told sinners Go and sin no more. It is a disgusting falsehood made up by a sick mind to say that Jesus Christ, son of God was homosexual and acted on it. Whoever did that interpretation should wash his mind out with soap.
"Are both your children practicing homosexuality? I’m sorry.
"I fear for a world where doctors make a living cutting off the healthy breasts of young women and making Frankenstein penises that don’t work, and constructing silicon breasts for healthy young men and creating Frankenstein gashes with the surgical rearrangement of pieces of their penis, making vaginas that go nowhere, when their patients would benefit more from mental health counseling. Suicide rates after such interventions are higher than when they aren’t performed.
"No I don’t want more. I know the arguments. I used to be on your side of that and other questions. Then I realized how harmful the redefinition of morality really is to everyone. It’s done in the name of compassion, but it’s false compassion."
She seems to have missed the part where I wrote I didn't want more. And wants to continue the conversation. We'll have to see how it goes.
The only Sound of Music connection was that the gay guys in Iowa got the discarded habits from some religious sisters on the pretext they were going to put on a performance of the Sound of Music. Not the Broadway musical or the play.
This is a good portrait of the vile group to which a local LA bishop urged us to respond only with “dialogue”— at least until the outcry from the Faithful embarrassed the USCCB into bestirring itself to call for a day of reparation. No protest that might be visible to the world, of course; too confrontational.
Now, prayer is a very good and necessary thing. But it isn’t a substitute for effective action within the natural order. If we don’t oppose evil ourselves in the ways He has made available to us, why should He think we’re serious when we ask for His help?
I get a lot more comments in my email box than I get here. Here is an email discussion resulting from this post. Even though this piece is not about homosexuality or the transgender controversy but a description of the outrageous, lewd, and crude things the SPI does to mock the Catholic Church, I received this from a friend who had a daughter and then a son. The daughter from toddlerhood refused to wear a dress or do anything typically feminine. Now my friend in her holiday letter talks about her "two boys." I have no idea how far the transition has gone with her child formerly known as a girl, except she now has a beard. But anyway, my friend first sent this to me: "Know and understand before printing and making judgement," and she included a blurb from the https://www.thesisters.org/ about their charity work. I replied: "Thanks for reading my post about the SPI. You sent me what they claim to be doing. I simply recorded what they admit they are doing. For example, the man whose religious name refers to coming in your ass (Sister Cuminja Wrasse), said this, “
"Sister Cuminja Wrasse and I were talking about the common accusation that the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence mock Roman Catholic nuns. ‘What’s your response?’ I asked. ‘I say, “You’re absolutely right,’"
She replied,
"This is a much longer conversation about how the church treats and encourages it's members to treat the LGBTQ community. So "mocking" means to show the LGBTQ community that unlike their religious family, the sisters support the LGBTQ youth and adults to be who they are and not feel they are slime as the church makes them feel, with the side effects of being kicked out of their homes by religious families and having to live homeless. The Sisters are using an outrageous form to prove the point that people can be individuals in any way they want as long as they don't hurt anyone. They are saying, we support you and offer you food and love to be who you are, and who you were meant to be. Jesus would have accepted them, as many interpretations of the Bibles show that Jesus was gay. [Disgusting slander! ED.]
"More to follow if you are interested, and yet I've had too many of these conversations where both sides are strong about their point and it does not get to any better understanding leading to the problems with our nation, today. I fear for my children."
I wrote back, "The Church does not hate the sinner but the sin. The Church does not encourage its members to treat people with same-sex attractions as slime. But really in all human beings, there is a normal ick factor. I’ve heard young people of any religion wonder what do male homosexuals do, bump their penises together? And what do women do?
"I always think of the story of how the Native American father took his son to the hardware store and pointed out the differences between the nut and the bolt. The nut fits into the bolt, You can’t have two nuts or two bolts working together to build anything.
"M*: Should we be mocking the people we don’t agree with?
"The Church does not make them feel like slime. It’s like the old Irish priest said, “It’s not the hetero- or the homo-, it’s the sex outside of marriage that God has forbidden." For our own good.
"Not everyone can express their sexual feelings. If you are married and are attracted to another person than your spouse, you may suffer but you have to have self-control. Same for single people like me.
"Since the [function of the ]sexual organs are [is] intrinsically linked with reproduction, any use of the organs outside of that is a perversion. Sex belongs in marriage and to deny its procreative aspect is also a perversion, like vomiting after a meal to thwart the nourishing function of food.
"Jesus loves everyone, but He told sinners Go and sin no more. It is a disgusting falsehood made up by a sick mind to say that Jesus Christ, son of God was homosexual and acted on it. Whoever did that interpretation should wash his mind out with soap.
"Are both your children practicing homosexuality? I’m sorry.
"I fear for a world where doctors make a living cutting off the healthy breasts of young women and making Frankenstein penises that don’t work, and constructing silicon breasts for healthy young men and creating Frankenstein gashes with the surgical rearrangement of pieces of their penis, making vaginas that go nowhere, when their patients would benefit more from mental health counseling. Suicide rates after such interventions are higher than when they aren’t performed.
"No I don’t want more. I know the arguments. I used to be on your side of that and other questions. Then I realized how harmful the redefinition of morality really is to everyone. It’s done in the name of compassion, but it’s false compassion."
She seems to have missed the part where I wrote I didn't want more. And wants to continue the conversation. We'll have to see how it goes.
Thank you for writing this. I never knew they had something to do with The Sound Of Music and don't know why they would.
The only Sound of Music connection was that the gay guys in Iowa got the discarded habits from some religious sisters on the pretext they were going to put on a performance of the Sound of Music. Not the Broadway musical or the play.