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And Gay Rights groups scream.<\/a>\u00a0 Naturally, the Boston Archdiocese paper immediately invoked the Glorious Censorship by pulling back on all that freedom of religion and the press garbage.\u00a0 Heck, it\u2019s only a newspaper for the faithful, who has a right to express opinions that might offend homosexuals?\u00a0 Granted, I can\u2019t find a link to the article, and who knows?\u00a0 Maybe it had some crazy things in it.\u00a0 But again, being a child of the 80s, I know that the problem is always those who are offended, rather than those who simply wish to have an open forum for sharing opinions.<\/p>\n

But the Catholic Church is a tough nut to crack.\u00a0 Bound by 2000 years of Sacred Tradition, it just can\u2019t scrap this or that teaching because the latest, hippest beautiful people demand it.\u00a0 Yet it\u2019s hard not to see that if certain groups yell and scream, a growing number of Catholic leaders are willing to back down.\u00a0 While certain other groups can yell and scream until they are blue in the face,\u00a0and the Church is more than happy to let it\u2019s yes be yes, and it\u2019s no be no. <\/p>\n

Since all of the hubbub is greeted by a Gay movement still not happy with the Archdiocese of Boston bringing\u00a0self-censorship to appease them, and since much of the indignation seems to be that the paper was not conforming to the homosexual agitprop that God puts a gene in people that makes them gay which is like being Black or Asian (or we simply evolved that way for the more secular inclined), I\u2019m less than convinced that the response did anything other than grant a victory to post-modern reformers.\u00a0 I wish, at least, the whole uproar could have been used to open up a dialogue, rather than cower, insert tail between legs, and once more act as if the driving force of 21st century Catholic leadership appears to be \u2018ah come on guys, like us will you?\u2019\u00a0 At least when discussing those whose affections are deemed important.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"