Vatican Hails BLM as ‘Non-Violent’
by Jules Gomes, Church Militant:
Vatican News is praising Black Lives Matter (BLM) as a “movement dedicated to non-violent civil disobedience through protests against police violence directed at black persons as well as all forms of racism.”
“The movement began in 2013 with the use of the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter on social media,” the Holy See’s official information service said Wednesday, providing context for comments from president of the National Episcopal Conference of Congo (CENCO) Abp. Marcel Utembi Tapa, who said he “welcomed the fight against racism being spearheaded by the Black Lives Matter movement.”
“Today, Black Lives Matter has decentralized into a broader and worldwide network of movements advocating against police violence towards minorities, the militarization of the police as well as against systemic racism around the world,” Vatican News reported.
The Vatican media made no reference to BLM’s involvement in riots, it’s campaign to “defund the police” or to the movement’s goals of “disrupt(ing) the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure requirement,” as explicitly stated on the “What we believe” page of the BLM website.
BLM also proclaims itself determined to “dismantle cisgender privilege,” pro-transgender and “queer‐affirming,” maintaining: “When we gather, we do so with the intention of freeing ourselves from the tight grip of heteronormative thinking, or rather, the belief that all in the world are heterosexual (unless s/he or they disclose otherwise)” — an agenda in flagrant contradiction of Catholic teaching on sexuality and the family.
“It is ridiculous for the Vatican to pretend that Black Lives Matter is a non-violent movement,” British politician David Kurten told Church Militant. “They are, at best, naïve — and at worst, complicit — by sticking their heads in the sand and ignoring its true, radical, Marxist nature.”
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