And you thought The Dallas Morning News was bad!
Actually, ever since resident bigot Rod Dreher left, The DMN’s Sunday opinion pages have been largely devoid of any discussion of gay rights, pro or con.
Not so for The El Paso Times, which on Sunday printed this op/ed piece from the Rev. Michael Rodriguez, parish priest at San Juan Bautista Catholic Church.
Going a step further than even the Texas Republican Party platform, Rodriguez begins by suggesting that not only gays — but also those who fail to actively oppose them — are damned to hell:
Any Catholic who supports homosexual acts is, by definition, committing a mortal sin, and placing himself/herself outside of communion with the Roman Catholic Church.
Furthermore, a Catholic would be guilty of a most grievous sin of omission if he/she neglected to actively oppose the homosexual agenda, which thrives on deception and conceals its wicked horns under the guises of “equal rights,” “tolerance,” “who am I to judge?,” etc.
Father Rodriguez goes on to say that all “homosexuals” should be treated with “love, understanding, and respect.” But he adds, “At the same time, never forget that genuine love demands that we seek, above all, the salvation of souls. Homosexual acts lead to the damnation of souls.”
Interestingly, Rodriguez concludes by making an argument similar to one we frequently hear from supporters of same-sex marriage — who note that just because a majority of voters support a law, this doesn’t make it constitutional. But Rodriguez makes the argument from the opposite perspective, saying that just because a majority of voters support gay rights, this doesn’t make them morally right. This is a relatively new twist — usually we hear anti-gay voices espousing the virtues of the popular vote — but it’s one we’ll probably see more often as public opinion shifts in our favor:
To simplify: One would have to be ghastly morally decrepit to think that if 51 percent of Americans opine that rape is OK, then rape becomes, in effect, all right. Sure, the majority is politically capable of such a vote, but this could never make rape morally right.
There is such a thing as a corrupt democracy, you know!
Abortion and homosexual acts are unequivocally intrinsic moral evils. And friends, this objective truth doesn’t depend on the opinion of the majority. Frighteningly, if the majority chooses to deny the objective moral order, then we will all suffer the pestiferous consequences.
Bigots are a dime a dozen, so it’s hardly surprising that a Catholic priest in El Paso believes this stuff (insert pedophilia joke here). The surprising thing is that The El Paso Times would print such garbage.
We’re all for the First Amendment and an open exchange of ideas, but to borrow an analogy from Rodriguez, that doesn’t mean you let rapists write op-ed pieces from prison explaining that, “She was asking for it.”
“…insert pedophilia joke here…”???
Is that supposed to be funny? Because I can’t think of anyone who thinks pedophilia is funny. And why would you say, “..that doesn’t mean you let rapists write op-ed’s from prison…”? Are you trying to imply that Fr. Rodriguez is a rapist? He is not. There are, however, a great many homosexual priests in the Novus Ordo sect (what you would call the mainstream Catholic Church) who are responsible for raping children, and also many homosexual priests who are living repulsive lives of hedonism and depravity and graft under their cloak of the priesthood with adult males. This priest is obviously straight, and has the guts enough to stand up and say what God’s Law has always held – in a public forum, no less! – and you want to “complain” because it got PUBLISHED? How childish. Your so-called “support” of the Constitutional writes of ALL citizens is a transparent sham. You just don’t want ANYONE reminding you or the world of the truth of what awaits practitioners of an ugly, unnatural vice.
I have always wondered why people mock another person when they disagree on an issue. John, why do you not challenge Fr Rodriguez instead of writing an article mocking him? He said in another column that he would welcome a debate on this topic. Prove your point of view through your intellect and not through a column where you come across like a kid who can only defend himself by mocking someone else.
Father Rodriguez is a Holy Priest who bluntly states his Catholic Faith with NO APOLOGIES TO NO ONE. There are many, many people who appreciate a Holy Priest such as Fr. Rodriguez.
Stacy & Joanne:
You’re both idiots.
If an Amish minister was talking about the evils of electricity, no one would give him flack.
This priest is shepherding his flock in the teaching of the Catholic Church. What is the problem?
He says the Catholic Church teaches this. He does not say my opinion is this. Any reading of the catechism of scripture will show that he is stating the correct Catholic Church teaching.
Father Rodriguez, Holy Mother Church needs ,ore priests like you. God Bless you and thank you! You are truly a soldier for Christ!
The teaching of Jesus is that those who harm children or cause children to be put in harms way should have a millstone tied round their necks and then drowned in the deepest ocean. Clergy and Religious Orders of the Catholic Church in Ireland have harmed children – they raped them, they buggered them, the starved them, they enslaved them, and they sold the babies of single mothers and this priest attacks gays! No wonder the Church is going to hell in a hand basket. It’s time Interpol and the FBI set up a task force to tackle this criminal organisation.