Getting to the real point

Over at Catholic Exchange, there is a spirited discussion of the interminable question of pretend gay “marriage”. Turns out Catholics who take the Church’s teaching on the sacrament of matrimony think it’s rubbish. It also turns out that self-absorbed gay Anglican priests don’t like that. Much bustle. Finally, a Catholic priest enthused for gay “marriage” shows up, makes a few prefatory remarks, and then says reveals the true heart of the whole gay “marriage” enterprise in a few short words:

[A]m I wrong when I remember that you have laws that protect your citizens from discrimination and that were some of the remarks levelled at you were used in Great Britain the person responsible could be prosecuted in a court of law?

That’s what this is all about and has *been* all about from the start: the drive to find *some* way to judicially punish Catholics for believing what they believe about sexuality.

Our priest friend and other exponents of crushing free speech can’t (yet) do that. But judicial usurpation of democratically decided laws has been a powerful tool in their hands before. So I have no trouble believing that Ungoodthink about the glories of gay marriage will soon be exempted from protection by the Bill of Right. The hunger to prosecute Christians for thinking what they think about human sexuality is a persecuting faith with all the zeal of Torquemada. Tolerance is not Enough. You. MUST. Approve.