Brown and NOM Promote World Congress of Families

This is mild, for Brown. It seems axiomatic that among the “will gay-bash for cash” crowd, the rhetoric gets more shrill as they lose more ground, and this is by no means the worst I’ve seen from him lately. For him to support an organization that supports an authoritarian regime in no surprise — what can you expect from someone whose religious belief rests on bowing to authority?

Is there any problem that some JesusMoney won’t cure?

A world congress of families should be an actual meeting that all families go to while those of us who prefer to be childfree get the whole rest of the planet to play on for a few days.

If the US doesn’t adopt anti-gay laws like Russia, then it will be susceptible to becoming a degenerate country like Russia.

@2 Is there anyone the Orthodox Church does like?

The US Eastern Orthodox don’t like the Catholics or the Protestants.

They say so often on their websites.

Oddly enough, much of the animosity is based on…politics. They are conservatives and refer to the other churches as “left leaning”.

They laugh and cheer when the other churches report declining membership numbers. Meanwhile, they aren’t doing so well themselves despite occasional claims that the Easterners are growing.

orthodoxytoday .org

The Greek Orthodox Church in America – Dead or Alive?

Fr. Andrew J. Barakos

In the official Registry of the Archdiocese, which records Baptisms and Chrismations for the past 25 years, the picture does not improve. The first shocking statistic is that baptisms peaked in 1976 with 9,955 recorded. In 2000, the annual number of baptisms declined to 7,300 – a drop of 27%. Secondly, over the past 25 years, the number of converts joining the Greek Orthodox Church has remained the same at 912 per year. This means that of the 540 parishes each receives less than two converts a year. This is not a growing Church.

There are frequent claims that the orthodox churches in the USA are growing.

I haven’t been able to verify this. For one thing, various churches cook their membership statistics in various outrageous ways. One church claims a million members. People looked and it is more like 40,000. They are only exagerrating by…20-fold.

The Greek Orthodox are the largest of the Orthodox churches in the USA. They aren’t growing and might be declining. Out of 317 million Americans, they get a whole 912 converts a year. And how many die or leave?

I’m convinced that the problem is that too many smartphones autocorrect ‘fascist’ to ‘family’. Yeah, that’s it.

It’s impossible to take any organization seriously that has the word “family” in its name.

Sly and the Family Stone?

It’s Orwellian Newspeak.

Family = fascist

Patriot = hater of America

Xian Persecution = Forced to live in a democracy

Democrat = Commie

Woman = Mobile Incubator

Even the word xian is changing. A lot of the time it is a synonym for hater, liar, ignorant, crazy, terrorist, and sometimes killer for jesus.

whheydt #18: They’re more than 13 days behind the times, I would say.

@8 John Pieret

Re: “David Usher”

I for one welcome our married “bi-maternal” overladies.

The Vanier Institute of the Family is a Canadian organization, founded by a former Governor-General of Canada, Georges P. Vanier, and his wife Pauline Vanier. To my knowledge, it is a non-political organization that focuses on research and advice to legislators. Their definition of `family’ from their website indicates where they’re at:

The Vanier Institute of the Family defines “family” as:

Any combination of two or more persons who are bound together over time by ties of mutual consent, birth and/or adoption or placement and who, together, assume responsibilities for variant combinations of some of the following:

* Physical maintenance and care of group members

* Addition of new members through procreation or adoption

* Socialization of children

* Social control of members

* Production, consumption, distribution of goods and services

* Affective nurturance – love

I’m posting this not to praise them (it’s a very low-key organization, and I don’t know a lot about theif work), but I do object to the automatic assumption that `family’ is a wingnut code word.

@John Pieret (#8):

I think David Usher watched Goldfinger too many times. You remember: Pussy Galore and her troupe of aviatrixes were, by implication at least, lesbians. Along came Bond, James Bond who, with his superior manliness, turned Pussy around. So my conjecture is that Usher has in his head the idea of women declaring themselves lesbians in order to tempt men to “redeem” them. Then, by lying about having used birth control, they will trick the men into becoming fathers.

I wonder why Usher would think this is a bad thing, since many of the men faced with having to pay child support will choose to marry their seductresses — who, having wanted to raise a child, will accede to the proposal.