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Result: when a bishop who is serious about Catholic moral teaching tries to run his archdiocese\u00a0in the San Francisco area on that basis, Caesar moves from prosecuting the Church for actual crimes to persecuting the Church for holding moral beliefs that are not fashionable.<\/a>\u00a0 There will be a lot more of this. \u00a0Homosexualism, backed with the sword of Caesar, will be a militant, persecuting faith.<\/p>\n

This is not about gays doing whatever they like on their own time. \u00a0This is about forcing the Church to accept and teach the goodness of acts she regards as gravely immoral.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"