You know what’s ‘anti-gay’? Refusing to proclaim the fullness of the Gospel

Jun 17, 2016 by

by Claire Chretien, LifeSite:

[…] While numerous commentators have also seized on the event (Orlando shooting – ed) to advance the gay political agenda and target Christians who oppose that agenda, perhaps the most curious reactions to the attack have come from several Catholic bishops.

These bishops have used this terrorist attack to decry “anti-gay prejudice” within the Catholic Church and, and one even claimed that Catholicism “breeds contempt” for those with same-sex attractions and gender confusion.

Shockingly, St. Petersburg, Florida Bishop Robert Lynch claimed that Catholics were partly responsible for the terrorist attack.

“Sadly it is religion, including our own, which targets, mostly verbally, and also often breeds contempt for gays, lesbians and transgender people,” Bishop Lynch wrote.  “Attacks today on LGBT men and women often plant the seed of contempt, then hatred, which can ultimately lead to violence.”

Huh?

San Diego Bishop Robert McElroy said that the Orlando tragedy “is a call for us as Catholics to combat ever more vigorously the anti-gay prejudice which exists in our Catholic community and in our country.”

Anti-gay prejudice?  Many orthodox Catholics who read that statement will no doubt wonder to what exactly Bishop McElroy is referring.

Anyone remotely familiar with the direction of the Catholic Church over the past fifty years knows that media caricatures of the Church as obsessed with sex or “anti-gay” are usually quite laughable and inaccurate.

Nearly an entire generation of priests—most of whom attended seminary during the 1970s—rarely, if ever, preaches about marriage and sexuality.  And often when they do, it’s to minimize, muddy, or even distort the very faith they are supposed to believe, live, and profess.

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