{"id":1998,"date":"2013-03-20T20:22:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-20T20:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2013\/03\/when-will-gay-civil-unions-be-no-problem-for-some-catholics.html"},"modified":"2013-03-20T20:22:00","modified_gmt":"2013-03-20T20:22:00","slug":"when-will-gay-civil-unions-be-no-problem-for-some-catholics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2013\/03\/when-will-gay-civil-unions-be-no-problem-for-some-catholics.html","title":{"rendered":"When will gay civil unions be no problem for some Catholics?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

If and when Pope Francis I endorses them, that\u2019s when. \u00a0For me, this would be a major step in the wrong direction. \u00a0Will homosexuality be accepted some day the way we accept tennis shoes? \u00a0Yeah. \u00a0It already is, at least on paper. I\u2019m not sure it\u2019s all sincere. \u00a0Some \u00a0is the result of intimidation. \u00a0Others the result of people who want popularity. \u00a0Still others like Rob Portman who change for a host of dubious reasons (more on that when I have more time). \u00a0Still others who no doubt have the idea that if they accept homosexuality, then the world must accept what they desire as normative. <\/p>\n

But be that as it may, the winds of change are here. \u00a0Now the big news story, compliments of the News Media, is that while cardinal, Pope Francis I was willing to compromise and support Same Sex Civil Unions.<\/a> \u00a0Whether that\u2019s true or not remains to be seen. \u00a0The ones reporting it, such as CNN, will have to hire additional custodians to mop up the drool accumulating on the studio floors that is being produced as they read this story. \u00a0Given their full support for advancing the gay agenda, I\u2019m suspicious.<\/p>\n

Still, I\u2019m not discounting it either. \u00a0I\u2019ve run into many Catholics who have no problem at all with anything homosexual. \u00a0The majority of American Catholics support gay marriage. \u00a0They support abortion rights, contraceptives, and married priests as well. \u00a0I\u2019ve heard Church leaders speak on the issue since I\u2019ve been Catholic, sounding much closer to my former\u00a0colleagues\u00a0from various\u00a0mainline\u00a0(and yes, progressive) denominations than anything in the Catechism.<\/p>\n

So perhaps Pope Francis I was one who thought compromise, or changing a position, would somehow stem the tide. \u00a0It won\u2019t of course. \u00a0The power of the Progressive Revolution is its insistence on absolute conquest. No quarter will be given to those who only 99% conform. \u00a0Eventually. \u00a0One need only reflect on the change in rhetoric and tactics that accompany this issue of homosexual rights. \u00a0Once it was based on \u2018who\u2019s to say what\u2019s normal, let\u2019s live and let live, can\u2019t we all get along?\u2019 \u00a0Today, it\u2019s more along the line of \u2018anyone who doesn\u2019t support gay marriage is a homophobic bigot who is an anti-gay hatemonger and it\u2019s high time we throw them out of the realm of public discourse!\u2019 <\/p>\n

No, compromise will do nothing but delay the inevitable. \u00a0As for what will happen if it\u2019s revealed that Pope Francis supported gay civil unions? Well, for those who support gay rights in the Church, there will be much celebrating. \u00a0For others, much concern. \u00a0And yet for others, it will become the obvious position. \u00a0Even if only a week ago they railed against such an idea, and insisted Francis would never, ever do such a thing, they will\u00a0immediately\u00a0change. \u00a0They will make impassioned defenses for civil unions, explain why it\u2019s the \u201cCatholic\u201d thing to do, and will brutally\u00a0chastise\u00a0anyone who holds fast on what the Church taught last week.<\/p>\n

These Catholics, who insist that everything the Church says *NOW* is the\u00a0truth\u00a0(and if that changes tomorrow, then it will be the Truth Now), will simply go along. \u00a0There won\u2019t\u2019 be pausing. \u00a0There won\u2019t be reflecting on what this could mean. \u00a0There won\u2019t be a call to resist. \u00a0There simply will be going along. \u00a0And it is this type of Catholic who will be the same as those who have gone along every time in history that the Church zigged when it should have zagged. \u00a0There have always been those who try to lead the Church astray. \u00a0Satan and prowling lions and all. \u00a0But unlike Protestantism, where you simply break off and start your own denomination, Catholics have no such alternative. \u00a0All they can do is resist, or go along, and depending on the personality type, insist that only brain dead idiots or evil bigots who don\u2019t care about Church Teaching don\u2019t see the obvious truth that is now the Truth Today.<\/p>\n

Never one to lift up the Church and its troubled 2000 year history and put it on a\u00a0pedestal\u00a0 I can\u2019t help but guess that\u2019s where it will go. \u00a0I could be wrong. \u00a0Hopefully, the hoopla about the gay friendly Pope is just media yearning. \u00a0But if it isn\u2019t, and if it does go down that the Pope is going to endorse the state making it easier for people to live in mortal sin (assuming we still believe that), then I have no doubt there will be Catholics rejoicing\u00a0across\u00a0America. \u00a0And in addition, there will be those who may not want to rejoice, but will force themselves to do so, baring their teeth to anyone who dares point out what they will be desperate to forget. \u00a0Just like I can\u2019t help but imagine a\u00a0sizable\u00a0portion\u00a0of humanity is when it comes to homosexual\u00a0normality\u00a0 \u00a0They don\u2019t believe it, they simply don\u2019t dare say otherwise \u2013 and God help the person who reminds them of what they\u2019ve done.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If and when Pope Francis I endorses them, that\u2019s when. \u00a0For me, this would be a major step in the wrong direction. \u00a0Will homosexuality be accepted some day the way we accept tennis shoes? \u00a0Yeah. \u00a0It already is, at least on paper. 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