Saturday, March 06, 2010
Secular Britain
Damian Thompson provides this excellent explanation and analysis of the current legislation in Britain which, among other things, forces Catholic schools to teach sex and provide access to abortion, and may pressure clergy to allow gay 'weddings' in churches. The underlying anti religious bias of the present government there is astounding and Damian lays it all out neatly. What is most amazing about this anti religious government is that while they seem determined to root out what they perceive to be negative conservative forces within Christianity they also bend over backwards to grant 'equality' to Islam. Hammers and steamrollers for Christians who may object to sex ed for elementary school kids, homosexual marriage and women's ordination, but not a peep about a religion that buries adulterers up to the waist and stones them, forces women into burkhas and kills homosexuals. Weird.
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Not weird.
Stupid.
And so stupid, that I think it is demoniac.
I'm glad I don't live in England. I just hope that we in the United States can learn from the mistakes of secular England and secular Europe to keep from becoming a majority secular country ourselves. Looking at the leadership in our White House and Congress today does not give me much hope of that.
I very much fear that there will *not* always be an England.
'...not a peep about a religion that buries adulterers up to the waist and stones them, forces women into burkhas and kills homosexuals. Weird.'
Whereas, of course, the Old Testament doesn't mention anything whatsoever about cruel punishments for those who break the laws regarding sexual misconduct...and there's been absolutely no homophobically- or misogynistically-oriented crimes in Christian history, have there?
My point, Father, is simply that to caricature Islam like this is just as wrong as to say that people like Pat Robertson (who once said that we should assassinate Hugo Chavez) represent the entire Church.
Or, it's like saying that all Americans are like the people who bomb abortion clinics. The extremism of a minority doesn't mean that the majority are also evil.
One of the strangest things about this whole issue for me is that, if same-sex couples want to 'marry' in the Catholic Church, aren't they already proclaiming to the world that they don't believe in the Catholic Faith? So, why do they want to get married in a Catholic Church?
I don't believe in the views of the National Secular Society, but should I claim they should be forced by law to allow me to practice my Catholic faith in it without any restriction whatsoever?
No. Because if I demanded such a thing, people would have the right to think I was totally unhinged, because, why on earth would I wish to do such a thing?
I don't think the issue has anything to do with marriage, but providing a rationalisation for homosexual acts. (If the Church accepts it (although under duress), then at last, I can 'accept' myself).
I am sure, even if they did get 'married' in the Catholic Church, they wouldn't be able to escape the nagging of Natural Law in their heart-of-hearts.
They simply will never reach peace in their hearts that homosexual acts are 'natural', and not sinful, however much people are forced to say that they are.
In the same way, is the modesty children seem to develop naturally at a certain age the result of oppressive religious indoctrination? No. Why do kids need to be told masturbation is OK and they shouldn't feel guilty, if it was natural? Surely they wouldn't need to be told it is natural - or taught how to masturbate in seedy Planned Parenthood teen sex manuals - if it was?
Where do they get the notion of guilt? Oppressive religious indoctrination again?
In essence, what people want is the licence to copulate, whenever, and with whatever, or whomsoever, they please, and the more people they can force to agree, the more the fallacy of 'truth by ubiquity' will seem to have eased the moral angst.
Oh dear, oh dear. Why does an American blogger spend so much time bashing the UK and/or the Church of England? And - pardon my saying so - so lazily and inaccurately, too.
There is NO current legislation forcing clergy to allow gay 'weddings' in churches, nor does Damian Thompson suggest that there is. A major point of his article is that such a thing might happen if an Act currently under discussion is passed "in its present form"; but that the government are running scared of the direction in which amendments have taken the original idea.
If an American newspaper wrote like you have just done passing comment on the Catholic Church you would be outraged.
Flying Vic, you make a fair point and I've amended the post accordingly.
However, not just the American press, but the secular press in Britain publish far worse calumny, half truths and downright old fashioned anti-Catholic bigotry on a regular basis.
I stumbled across this article on the Arts and Letters Daily page. It gives me the creeps & also ties in with some of your blogs about the ever present cameras in the UK.
Weaponizing Mozart
published in reason.com
How Britain is using classical music as a form of social control
Brendan O'Neill | February 24, 2010
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