This is the first of two posts today. In this first one, we’ll talk about what actually happened during the 2011 Gay Pride Week. In the next post we’ll talk about Cardinal Sean O’Malley’s statement on his blog last night and Terry Donilon’s pathetic comments to the Globe about the whole thing.
Fr. John Unni, pastor at St. Cecilia’s in Boston said last Sunday when he criticized us and other orthodox Catholics:
“In the past week, folks have talked about the Gay Pride agenda. I confess to almighty God and my brothers and sisters that I don’t know what that group is. I apologize for my stupidity and ignorance.”
Listen yourself below between about 0:20 and 0:50.
For Fr. Unni’s benefit and others following this scandal, here’s an overview of Boston’s Gay Pride Week. I can’t take credit for what you are about to read. The following passage comes straight from Mass Resistance:
‘Gay Pride Week’ in Boston: In-your-face depravity, vulgarity, blasphemy – sponsored by major politicians & corporate America
POSTED: June 16, 2011
There is no worse time to be in Boston than during “Gay Pride” week. More than once this past week people on the street from out of town asked us, “What is going on here?” and we had to explain . . .
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This was the scene on Charles Street in downtown Boston on Friday evening. [Mass-Resistance photo] |
Gay Pride Week in Boston was officially ten days (June 3-12) of public events, block parties, festivals, and parades celebrating every kind of homosexual activity imaginable. As in recent years transgenderism and cross-dressing have been taking a more prominent role, as well as BDSM (bondage, sadomasochism, “leather culture”). There is also a big dose of anti-religious (particularly anti-Catholic) fervor. Besides homosexual Catholic groups, the offensive and blasphemous “Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence” — a group of homosexual men dressed up as nuns to mock the Church — marched in the Gay Pride Parade this year.
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Men dressed as twisted versions of nuns, calling themselves “Sisters of Perpetual Indulgance,” marched in the Gay Pride Parade in Boston to mock the Catholic Church. [MassResistance photo] |
Also in marching the Gay Pride Parade were the Governor and public officials, from constitutional officers to candidates for US Senate to Boston City Council, and many contingents of major corporations and area hospitals, as well as (sadly) more children than we recall in prior years. The list of major corporations (and government agencies) sponsoring the week’s events was impressive and scary.
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Bank of America, the “Bank of Opportunity,” was one of the many major corporations marching in (and sponsoring) the Gay Pride Parade. [MassResistance photo] |
Some of it was pretty mind-numbing. At the “festival” on City Hall Plaza following the Gay Pride Parade, Walgreen’s Drug Stores had a booth giving out packets of lubricant for homosexual sex. Not far away was the New England Leather Alliance booth giving out sado-masochism literature, and the polyamory and witchcraft groups.
The major homosexual public events during the week were: (1) the rainbow flag raising at Boston City Hall, featuring Boston elected officials; (2) the Dyke March through downtown streets of lesbians holding depraved signs and screaming angry chants; (3) the Gay Pride Parade; and (4) the gay “festival” at City Hall Plaza right after the Parade. There was a lot more, but how much can anyone take?
It’s really about power over us
One didn’t have to be there very long to get a sense of what these kinds of events are really all about. They’re about staging a huge in-your-face gesture of power over anyone with traditional values. Thus, they know they can do anything they want — whether kids or anyone else are watching or not — and we can’t do anything but meekly watch.
| In your face. During the Gay Pride Parade, just about anywhere you looked there was something like this riding by in an official float. [MassResistance photo] |
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For the homosexual movement and their supporters in politics and in corporate boardrooms, this is a public display of the dominance of their movement over traditional society and any individual who still supports traditional values. They know that no one would dare interrupt or criticize them without fear of swift and unflinching reprisal. They also know (and they know that WE know) that if we ever attempted to do any pro-family events downtown on that scale, the homosexual (or other mind-numbed leftist) activists could freely disrupt and harass us without any fear.
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Whether people reading this blog hate me (along with other orthodox Catholics), or agree with us, I hope you will agree that Fr. Unni owes everyone a better explanation than what he’s given. What’s the truth–was he in reality “stupid” and “ignorant” of the above yet still planned to personally celebrate a Mass to celebrate Boston Pride, or was he lying “before almighty God” and his parishioners when he said he didn’t know what it was? If a priest and the archdiocese are going to falsely accuse people of “hate” when all we’re doing is defending the teachings and truths of the Catholic Church, then we don’t think it’s too much to ask that they come out and acknowledge if they’re telling the truth or lying. That includes Terry Donilon, who accused us of being neither Christian nor civil.
The Catholic Mass ”commemorates”the Sacrifice on Calvary. As a commenter said in another blog, “the Holy Mass has only ONE theme: Jesus and his sacrifice through the Mystery of his Eucharist.” It’s not about homosexuals, cohabitation and pre-marital sex, abortions, anything else. Every Catholic should be insulted that a Catholic Mass was planned and promoted to celebrate “Boston Pride.” Why? Because it’s objectively wrong to misappropriate the purpose and focus of a Mass for anything other than a focus on Jesus’ sacrifice on the cross AND it was intended to celebrate a group of people’s homosexuality, with no sense of repentance for their homosexual sins and homosexual pride.
Next up, Cardinal Sean O’Malley’s response…
Does Cardinal O’Malley agree with Terry Donilon,Secretary for Communications and Public Affairs for the Boston Archdiocese,, that Catholics who object to celebrating “Gay Pride” with a special Mass at St. Cecilia’s parish, are acting out of hatred? If that is the case, then does the Cardinal and Terry Donilon believe that Pope John Paul II was acting out of hatred when he spoke about homosexuality when he addressed officials and lawyers from the Tribunal of the Roman Rota on Jan. 25,1999? (http//world.std.com/~courage/pope_john_paul_ii_speaks_about_h.htm)?
“After noting that the only appropriate form of conjugal union comes within marriage,the pope said,”one sees the incongruity of pretending to give conjugal dimensions to the union between persons of the same sex.” “Such a union is to be opposed.” he continued,”above all because of the objective impossibility of being fruitful in the transmission of life, according to the plan inscribed by God in the very structure of the human being.” John Paul also noted that among persons of the same sex “there is an absence of those interpersonal,complementary dimensions which the Creator willed, both on the physical and biological level, as well as in the eminently psychological plan, between man and woman.”
To those who would appeal to human freedom to justify homosexuality the pope said,”To think of liberty as a moral permissiveness or the ability to infringe the law, is to twist its true nature.” “Liberty,in fact, consists in the ability of the human being to acknowledge he is responsible in other words, that as an individual he can choose to do the will of God as expressed in the law,bringing himself ever closer to be the image of his creator.”
Since when is speaking the truth in the spirit of love that was expressed by Blessed John Paul; II now to be classified as speaking with hatred? Catholics in the Boston Archdiocese who agree with the words of Pope John Paul II are being unjustly classified as speaking with hatred. The true nature of their words is being twisted. Hopefully Cardinal O’Malley agrees with the words of Pope John Paul II and not with the words of Terry Donilon.
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Excellent job, Joe. Anyone who pretends not to get it now is a liar.
Hear! Hear! Nice job!
Do the gay pride marchers really want to exercise power over anyone? I don’t think so. Silly and tasteless as some of the demonstrations have been, the aim of the demonstrators is not to gain power over people with traditional values.
In the first place, what sort of power would that be. And then, how would it be exerted? Do they want us all to go antiquing with them on Sunday afternoons?
What they are seeking is an end to discrimination. They are seeking this by asserting their identity — defiantly and sometimes outrageously, to be sure — but the aim is simply to say, “We are what we are and we are not going to change or hide.”
Other tactics to achieve this end might work better — I myself question that value of public flamboyance. But it is clear that the “gay agenda” is simply to end discrimination.
What else could their agenda be? It certainly is not to proselytize the “gay lifestyle” — the gay lifestyle exists only as a manifestation of being gay, and ask any gay person whether being gay is the result of a choice. The answer will be no, because it isn’t a choice.
And let’s not take the gay people who march in parades as typical or representative of gay people generally. Most don’t march in parades. Many prefer not to call attention to themselves at all, fearing the consequences.
Philip, if you really believe what you wrote, you have an incredibly naive approach to this issue. The homosexual agenda is to normalize homosexuality and homosexual sex. It includes the destruction of the morals and mores of our society. Rather than try to convince you, I suggest you google ‘Homosexual Manifesto” and read what you find there.
So long as one understands that it was published as *satire* in the spirit of Swift….
This priest has a darkened intellect because of his sinister involvement in worshiping the creature instead of the Creator. He is either practicing same sex behavior or darkened by the promotion of it.
Cardinal O’Malley knows what is going on and he refuses to stop it. He continues to obfuscate the truth by mis-directing God’s message of love. I will stop here and you can all draw the correct conclusion.
Liam, Swift’s remarks are the bulk of what the google search brings up, but by no means all of it. There is much there that is more to the point of what the homosexual agenda is. Maybe I’ll post some of it if there’s no objection.
Ferde,
Joe wrote that the homosexual agenda was to exert power over people with traditional values — that is what I don’t believe is true. I can’t imagine what use that power would be to them, or how they would exert it. I have worked with a lot of gay people at various companies, and they have never pressured me to “join us”. The universal attitude of the gay people I know has been “you be what you are, and let us be what we are.”
You write that the agenda of gay people is to “normalize” gay sex. It seems more accurate to say that the agenda is to put an end to the discrimination that has made the lives of so many gay people a constant misery.
I don’t see any threat in this to the general mores. Heterosexual people are not going to start practicing gay sex. The moral behavior of heterosexual people is not going to deteriorate when they come to accept their gay relatives, neighbors, friends, and colleagues for what they are. Quite the opposite.
God chose to make a certain percentage of the population gay. Does that mean that these people can never give physical expression the their sexual preferences — that they must all be held to a standard of complete chastity that few heterosexuals have shown themselves able to rise to? I am troubled by this question, which I do not believe can be dismissed easily.
As for the “Gay Manifesto” — show me that it represents the aims of all or even just a majority of gay people, and I might take it seriously.
Ferde, “Anonymous” is me, Philip. The message slipped away before I could sign it.
Thanks, Philip. You said you don’t believe Joe’s assertion the homosexual agenda is to exert power over people with traditional values. I think you’re ignoring the facts. Everywhere the issue of homosexual marriage has been put to a vote of the people, it has lost decively. In the face of that, they have the courts and legislatures making their ‘mariages’ legal. That is raw political power in opposition to people with traditional values. There is a list of such legislative and judicial abuses, but I won’t spend the time going over it. It’s all a matter of public record.
Heterosexuals are not being indoctrinated into the homosexual agenda in large numbers. Their children are. If you don’t see a threat to the morals and mores of our society, you have your head in the sand. What they do during ‘gay pride’ parades used to be called indecent exposure. What they do on television in sit-coms used to be an outrage. Now it’s normal and you don’t see a threat to traditional values? Incredible!
Reducing the homosexual agenda to issues of genuine discrimination is exactly what they have manipulated you and those like you to do. So is your buying into the ‘God made me like this’ argument. Those arguments are active elements of the homosexual manifesto and I’ll post it for you shortly.
Ferde,
I did a little research and it appears that the “Homosexual Agenda” was 1) the work on one gay man; no one else claimed authorship, signed it, or endorsed it, and 2) it originally appeared with a disclaimer at the top, saying that it was written as a parody of what some people think that gay people want.
Someone removed the disclaimer and started sending it around on the Internet, where it is now taken literally by some people, in spite of the absurdly exaggerated tongue-in-cheek rhetoric of the whole piece.
The author should have known better than to assume that people would pick up on the fact that it is a parody. A few years ago, an article from the wise-guy humor web site “The Onion” made the rounds of the Internet as a piece of straight reporting; in this article, a young girl claimed that reading Harry Potter made her decide to dump her Bible in the trash and start sacrificing small animals in her backyard. Sophomoric humor, to be sure — and alas, it was taken at face value by a lot of people.
Pax
Philip, as I said earlier, the ‘Swift’ piece is not what I meant. The following was posted on a blog last March. I think you’ll find it on the second page of the googled list.
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If you all want to see the scripted marketing agenda homosexuals are religiously adhering to, I suggest you get your copy at Amazon books. The propaganda manifesto that they are following was originally called Overhauling Straight America. It was later developed into a full blown propaganda and psychological operations piece by the homosexual authors, and was titled “After the Ball, How America Will Overcomes it Fear and Hatred of Gays.
The psychological operations manifesto is extremely clever in its unabashed bragging about using deception, lies, Chinese Communist propaganda tactics and tactics out of Mein Kampf.
Most homosexuals actually have never heard of the manifesto nor read it, but it is undeniable that all the tactics are being universally used because they all parrot the same tactics. Now is that just a coincidence?
Back in the 80′s a homosexual political war conference workshop was held by 175 leading homosexual political extremists in Warrenton, Virginia. A faction came up with the born that way technique. Initially there was a significant amount of dissent about this new tactic, but over time the opponents had to admit that the new claim would be extremely effective. Kirk and Madsen of Overhauling Straight American/After The Ball infamy developed it to its logical conclusion by instructing homosexuals to claim they were born that way, to interject the negro race as a parallel, even though Kirk and Madsen publicly admitted the claim was false. The purpose of this technique is it absolves its claimants from responsibility for their behavior choices, and it also is one of the legal test triggers along with victim status that allows them to sue under various civil rights acts to silence all opposition.
One of the tactics Kirk and Madsen cleverly came up with is a tactic they called jamming. This tactic was designed to crush all dissent by using negative associative conditioning.
Homosexual agenda practitioners carry this out by using scripted epithets like “bigot”, “hate filled”, “narrow minded”, “intolerant”, homophobic”, “bible thumper”, closet homosexual”, mean spirited”, ok, well, you have hear them all used with machine-like regularity.
An interesting thing about so called “homophobia” is homosexual agenda extremists now use this epithet to describe anyone who opposes the political goals and behaviors of homosexuals.
One of the very clever tactics homosexuals have used to force their chosen behavior and ideology down the throats of everyone is the tactics they used to get the American Psychological Assoc to remove homosexuality from their DSM list. The modus operandi of this effect continues to be of value as homosexuals continue to trot out the removal as a talking point some 25 years later. But they never tell you how they accomplished the removal.
But that is ok, because a pro-homosexual psychologist APA has done that for us.
In Chapter 4, “Diagnostic Politics: Homosexuality and the American Psychiatric Association,” Dr. Bayer says that the first attack by homosexual activists against the APA began in 1970 when this organization held its convention in San Francisco. Homosexual activists decided to disrupt the conference by interrupting speakers and shouting down and ridiculing psychiatrists who viewed homosexuality as a mental disorder. In 1971, homosexual activist Frank Kameny worked with the Gay Liberation Front collective to demonstrate against the APA’s convention. At the 1971 conference, Kameny grabbed the microphone and yelled, “Psychiatry is the enemy incarnate. Psychiatry has waged a relentless war of extermination against us. You may take this as a declaration of war against you.”
Homosexuals forged APA credentials and gained access to exhibit areas in the conference. They threatened anyone who claimed that homosexuals needed to be cured.
Kameny had found an ally inside of the APA named Kent Robinson who helped the homosexual activist present his demand that homosexuality be removed from the DSM. At the 1972 convention, homosexual activists were permitted to set up a display booth, entitled “Gay, Proud and Healthy.”
Kameny was then permitted to be part of a panel of psychiatrists who were to discuss homosexuality. The effort to remove homosexuality as a mental disorder from the DSM was the result of power politics, threats, and intimidation, not scientific discoveries.
After much political pressure, a committee of the APA met behind closed doors in 1973 and voted to remove homosexuality as a mental disorder from the DSM-II. Opponents of this effort were given 15 minutes to protest this change, according to Dr. Jeffrey Satinover, in Homosexuality and the Politics of Truth. Satinover writes that after this vote was taken, the decision was to be voted on by the entire APA membership. The National Gay Task Force purchased the APA’s mailing list and sent out a letter using stolen then forged APA letterhead stationary to the APA members urging them to vote to remove homosexuality as a disorder. No APA member was informed that the mailing had been funded by this homosexual activist group.
As to this current marriage propaganda push, it really has nothing to do with them actually wanted to statistically get married in a serial-monogoous relationship, especialy considering one of the very core tenants of homosexuals is multiple anonymous partners in bewildering numbers compared to the average heterosexual American at 4-5 sexual partners throughout a lifetime. In European countries where homosexuals can get married, 90% choose not to.
You all should read what homosexuals publish in their not-for-public consumption writings. They seek to redefine marriage by first destroying it of any meaning, then define it as a free for all. Next is they are seeking to force society to legitimize their behavior by forcing you to recognize their homosexual behavior unions.
Kirk and Madsens psychological deception strategy for this was to “…take anti-discrimination as our theme”. So now when pro-homosexual propaganda needs to be insinuated into schools without parental consent so they can brainwash impressionable underage kids, GLSTEN can provide hundreds of propaganda books and worksheets for teachers, they can provide “anti-bulling” strategies which are pro-homosexual propaganda pieces sinisterly disguised as “anti-discrimination” per Kirk and Madsen, and if you as a parent object or oppose them in anyway, be prepared to get terrorized by homosexual foot soldiers where they make examples out of parents exercising their parental rights to instill the moral values of the parents choosing, all as a warning to all other parents to not dare defy hinder or stop homosexual extremists from indoctrinating their children.
Time permitting I will expose some other tactics, the homosexual pedophilia epidemic, the heterosexual AIDS epidemic lie, the homosexual serial killer stats , etc, so in the meantime, watch some of the replies here. Very few homosexuals will actually try to constructively engage the points made by what originally is homosexuals themselves. Instead expect to see the very jamming tactics espoused in the manifesto and whole host of techniques that really have nothing to do with the message and everything to do with the messenger. But remember the dilemma homosexuals face here- the message comes from homosexuals themselves via their writings and tactics, so get the books yourself and get educated so your ignorance does not show.
Ferde, I am very impressed with the time you put into your post. I want to thank you on behalf of Catholics who uphold the teachings of Jesus Christ, in and out of season. Those who practice and/or promote homosexuality have darkened intellects and are no longer able to know the truth, so into the state of iniquity are they. When someone is in the state of iniquity, they have sinned so egregiously and for so long that it is only an act of God that will free them to return to the truth. It does us no good to be frustrated by them, they know not what they do. We are to pity them. To those who are tempted into false compassion this following account may help you:
http://www.christianfamilyoutreach.com/pamphlets/evilinfalsecompassion.pdf
Blessings to all.
Love thy neighbor.
Not pity thy neighbor.
Ferde,
I would find your research persuasive if you could show 1) that the book you found on Amazon outlines a tactic that the gay people generally have signed on to, and 2) that the aim of this tactic is to force a change in the behavior of heterosexual people, other than acceptance of gay people for what they are.
As for 1), this is not plausible, not by a mile, and I see no evidence that it is in fact true. I have no idea how such an all-embracing conspiracy would have been orchestrated, or maintained, or conducted. As for 2), again, I see no evidence that gay people want anything other than acceptance. They do not want me to leave my wife for a man, or become a swinger, or a pedophile, or a fan of Horatio Alger novels. They want nothing except acceptance.
OK, Ferde, I have read the manifestos you directed my attention to. Now I ask you to read,
“The Family Heart”, by Robb Forman Dew, a woman’s account of her discovery that one of her two sons is gay, and what it meant to her and her family. This book, better than anything else I have read, will help you understand what the gay community really wants.
Pax
Philip, I didn’t find a book on Amazon. I posted an article from a blog which mentions two books which support the facts stated in the article. I’m sure you understand the difference.
You have diverted yourself from the article to opinion and conjecture. I don’t know or care how many homosexuals have signed on to the agenda. I know the agenda is real and enough homosexuals have signed on to it to force the courts and some legislatures to sign on to it as well.
Are you seriously comparing the personal experience of one family with a well organized, lavishly funded, very successful national lobbying effort? Really? Your notion of “what the gay community really wants” tells me you have your head firmly planted in the sand. Read the article again and respond to it if you wish. Ignoriong it and trying to get me to deny what I know about the homosexual agenda isn’t going to work.
Thanks for your comments.
Ferde,
You write: “They seek to redefine marriage by first destroying it of any meaning, then define it as a free for all. Next is they are seeking to force society to legitimize their behavior by forcing you to recognize their homosexual behavior unions.”
My wife and I do not feel that our traditional marriage has lost all its meaning because the Commonwealth of Massachusetts legalized gay marriage. How could it? The whole idea is preposterous.
I don’t feel that I am being forced to “recognize their homosexual behavior unions.” The Commonwealth recognizes their unions, but I don’t. I’m just an individual citizen. And beside, I’m busy with other things — working, paying my bills, stuff like that. I suppose if I were a busybody who insisted on having a say about how other people run their lives, I might feel that I was being forced into not having a say. I’m grateful that I’m not wasting my life by being such a busybody.
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Marriage is a sacrament (per Scripture) between a man and woman for the procreation of children. Scripture warns us ( Sodom – Gomorrah) of God’s judgment / We no longer speak of SIN – why? This lifestyle is being forced upon society ( legislation – etc) through a deluge of media – gays in military and TAUGHT in schools (maybe Phillip doesn’t mind) as normal/ little children exposed to explicit sexual education no longer having the innocence of childhood protected ( transsexual – transgender – homosexuality – lesbianism etc).
People make choices – When we speak of Love – let us be reminded that our Lord in compassion – forgave the SIN and loved the sinner. He didn’t pretend that SIN ( is Christ a liar?) didn’t exist. A small % of society should not insist (secular and religious) that the majority approve and accept a lifestyle with many HEALTH issues ( I was an AIDS outreach worker – ministered to dying AIDS individuals in hospice / the Village) besides AIDS. We are not to ever Judge a person to damnation – EVER. In healing our Lord first addressed the sin – then the physical malady.
He touched the untouchables. Where is the CHURCH for the sick/ dying – those in need of medications (LOVE). I never saw ONE young person (homeless program I directed) live more than ONE year with AIDS. Why? NO money for medications like the wealthy / sports stars.
I never saw ONE minister or priest at their bedsides in their last hrs. My best friend – a GAY (celibate) Brother / were the ONLY ones despite our begging various parish priests to minister to them! Also -Brother Jeremy and I buried them/ gave eulogies etc. Love speaks to the sin but in any event does not kick the person to the curb. Love is long suffering and hopes all things. Many homosexuals that I know are APPALLED at the vulgar disgusting sexual gay pride parades ————!