Janet Murguia. Via Facebook.
National Council of La Raza, the nation’s largest Latino civil rights and advocacy organization, announced it has moved its 2016 Northeast/Southeast Affiliate Leadership Convening, scheduled for October, from Raleigh, N.C., to Miami, in protest of the state’s anti-LGBT law, House Bill 2.
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In a statement, La Raza president and CEO Janet Murguía said, “Hispanics know what it is like to be singled out and stripped of our humanity because of who we are or what we look like. And with the wave of anti-immigrant state laws in recent years, the Latino community is all too familiar with legislation that purports to ‘protect’ but, in fact, legalizes discrimination.”
She called HB 2 “a solution in search of a nonexistent problem; it is unnecessary, offensive and violates not only our rights, but our values as Americans. By taking this action, we extend our support to the efforts of so many in North Carolina and the LGBT, civil rights and business communities to repeal this egregious law.”
Cardinal Robert Sarah, keynote speaker at the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast in Washington, D.C. on May 17, 2016. (CNSNews/Hollingsworth)
On the other side, Cardinal Robert Sarah was having a fine time mocking LGBT peoples everywhere, at a National Prayer Breakfast in Washington.
“In your nation, God is being eroded, eclipsed, liquidated,” Cardinal Robert Sarah, who was appointed as Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments by Pope Francis in 2014…Cardinal Sarah condemned same-sex marriage, transgender bathroom laws, and attacks on the family as “demonic”.
“All manner of immorality is not only accepted and tolerated today in advanced societies, it is even promoted as a social good,” the African cardinal said. “The result is hostility to Christians and increasingly, religious persecution.”
“This is not an ideological war between competing ideas,” Sarah told the D.C. gathering. “This is about defending ourselves, children and future generations from the demonic idolatry that says children do not need mothers and fathers. It denies human nature and wants to cut off an entire generation from God.”
There is a great deal more here.
Sarah:
The children again. NOTHING in the advocacy of LGBT rights says that “children do not need mothers and fathers”. More succinctly, advocacy of LGBT rights allows MORE children to have openly safe and loving familial relationships. Why do the christians hate children so much?
Sarah:
Seems to me that Sarah and his ilk are the ones denying human nature. As far as cutting off an entire generation from god, I see no downside to that.
I’ll admit to being fairly amused by Sarah’s testerical testimony. First, God is being bullied by Pres. Obama, and now, God is being “eroded, eclipsed, liquidated”. Certainly makes a person think this god ain’t all that.
Setting a boundary becomes a personal attack.
Protesting poor treatment becomes censorship.
“Get off my foot” becomes “why are you in my way?”
Is it abuse, or ignorance? I’ve stopped caring about the distinction.
Siobhan:
Abuse. Ignorance can be corrected in the blink of an eye, and there’s so much information out now, there’s simply no excuse.