Oh my! First up, bloodless persecution.
A Roman Catholic archbishop, however, warned that there is such a thing as “bloodless” persecution, and it is happening in the nation that is supposed to be one of the freest in the world, the United States.
During his address at the opening of the Divine Mercy University in Virginia, Baltimore Archbishop William Lori said Catholic institutions in America are “experiencing the severest threats to their religious liberty” at present.
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“The institutions that are under challenge are places of mercy that seek to bring the healing balm of truth, love, and human skill to the spiritual, emotional, and physical wounds of human existence, to be indeed the ‘field hospital’ amid a culture where many are wounded daily,” the archbishop said, as quoted by LifeSiteNews.
To illustrate his point, the Roman Catholic official cited the legalisation of same-sex marriage and U.S. President Barack Obama’s contraceptive mandate as particular threats to religious freedom.
“We have only to think about the arbitrary redefinition of marriage and family or anti-family welfare and relief policies. As these intermediate structures either disappear or come under the direct control of the government, our society becomes less merciful and more impersonal, less apt to be a setting for human flourishing,” Lori said.
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The prelate urged the faithful and all Christian groups to be steadfast in promoting values, especially during this year, called the Holy Year of Mercy by Catholics.
This year “presents us with a graced opportunity to see the most fundamental of our freedoms, religious freedom, through the prism of God’s mercy and compassion,” he said.
Mercy? Christians have a damn odd notion of mercy. Oh so merciful to force people to submit to your psychopathic figment of a god, unable to live life in a manner they wish, and meddlesome priests and parishioners to go poking their noses where they don’t belong. Merciful. Right. Well, I guess you don’t get to torture and crispy critter people anymore. That’s something, I suppose.
Time for Transgender Depravity with Jack Engelhard.
Transgenders, some 700,000 of them nationwide, are less than one percent of the population, but they rule. Progressives want you to know that you are a bigot if you have a problem with men and women side by side in the same privy. What do we say about this? Nothing. Have we no shame? My cat won’t use the litter box until we leave the room. My cat knows dignity.
That’s nice, Jack. You have a sensitive kitty cat. What about all those people with distinctly undignified cats? The ones who don’t mind digging in the litter box, spraying sand all over the place while you are in the room? Do they need to die? Go to Ex-Undignified Cat Therapy? Sent to church? Rounded up and shipped off somewhere? There are even cats who go outside the box! *Gasp* Perhaps we best not talk about them.
Thanks to the depravity forced upon us by degenerate Liberals, the rest of us have been plunged down to the lowest rung of the animal kingdom. Your daughter is not safe in any school throughout the United States.
How sweet. Jack, like most all the other bigots, is terribly concerned with daughters. All those sons can just take care of themselves, I guess. Back to daughters. The word choice is an interesting one. Not girls. Not young women. Not women. Daughters. Written with the heavy hand of patriarchy, and the weight of ownership. The concern over potentially damaged property.
I raised the alarm here on May 3 and again here on May 22 in a piece titled, “How Bruce Jenner changed the life of every American.”
The stats for that article reveal that it was read by about 25,000 Americans, which means I failed. I needed to reach all 320 million Americans to let them know that when Big Brother forbids you the rights for your most intimate acts and denies you your most hushed moments, all is lost.
Big Brother has forbidden me the rights for my most intimate acts and hushed moments? Hmmm. Okay, I’ll admit to being lost on the hushed moments bit, no idea. (It’s not like everyone can’t hear you tinkling away). Generally speaking, my most intimate acts don’t take place in public, but even if they did, I’d be with Mrs. Campbell, and as long as no one was in the street scaring the horses, who cares? I don’t really consider pissing to be an act of intimacy. It’s a necessary bodily function, and yes, if I have a choice, I prefer privacy, such as it is in a public lav. I was in a public lav last week. I went into a stall, and peed. End of story. No rights violated in any way.
I failed again now that we read this: “The international association of Conservative rabbis passed a resolution declaring its embrace of transgender people, and called on Jewish institutions and government agencies to ensure their full equality.” What is this?
This is not equality. This is not civil rights. This is an abomination – or so it was back in the days when decency meant something. This is not Jewish. This is not Christian. This is not American. This is an enormous sell-out against our Judeo/Christian ethics.
I do not care how many rabbis or ministers or priests support the transgender mythology, common sense tells us that this is wrong. Let’s be honest and call it sinful.
Oh, how about if we don’t, Jack. By the way, there’s no such thing as transgender mythology. Well, at least not as far as I know. I don’t think transgender people have all gotten together to create gods just yet. A sell-out of Judeo-Christian ethics sounds good to me, we could finally start living by actual ethics, which don’t harm people, and aren’t based on hatred, fear, and judgment.
To live in a time when any man can call himself a woman and any woman can call herself a man puts us outside the laws of civilization and into the lawlessness of the jungle. Together as a nation we have been declawed. We have been neutered. We have been dehumanized.
SIGH. Jungles! What in the fuck do you know about jungles, Jack? My bet would be nothing at all. Neutered. Declawed. Dehumanized. Are people being neutered and declawed somewhere? I certainly haven’t heard anything like that. As for you, Jack, well, you have your little claws out, don’t you? Scratching and scraping away at any move towards a more compassionate, caring and humane society. I haven’t been dehumanized in the least by anyone under the GLBT umbrella. No one has tried to declaw or neuter me, either. That last one would be a tad difficult where I’m concerned, but it’s not women you care about, is it, Jack? Nope, it’s all about the men. Manly men, howling the losses of patriarchy. Tsk.
To live in a place where the rules are upside down and where each man is his own judge is to live in a wilderness of moral decay.
There’s this men only thing again. I’m quite good with being my own judge of how to live my life. I’m not terribly interested in telling other people how to live their lives, and I’m too busy for that kind of thing anyway. Instead, I’m very good with all people having basic human rights, and being left in peace to judge what’s good for themselves.
blf says
You forget: “We are being shipped to FEMA reeducation camps! Where we are being forcibly converted to secularism!! With reds under the beds!!! (The remainder is unintelligible due to howling, spluttering, and bogeymen singing Sweet Transvestite.)“
Caine says
Blf:
That will probably be in the next screed. I don’t know that he can top the declawed and neutered bit, though. Not only is his manly manliness taken away, he no longer has the means to defend himself. Or climb a tree!* Dude has cats on the brain.
*For the record, I am anti-declawing.
Marcus Ranum says
Progressives want you to know that you are a bigot if you have a problem with men and women side by side in the same privy. What do we say about this?
“Good morning, hun.”
We walk in on eachother all the time. Where are the republicans to protect me when I’m in the shower and suddenly there’s a person of the other gender in there with me! OMG! HAND ME THE SOAP and let me get your back.
Marcus Ranum says
Maybe he’ll have grounds to complain if people start telling him he can’t wear that ridiculous outfit any more. I mean, seriously, gold and red and black? It’s tasteless but I support his right to dress that way.*
(* I used to wear a nice archbishop’s outfit I got on Ebay, to kink events. But my cross was a really elegant red and black piece I cast in resin and I wore it upside down. The funny part was when the guy at the drycleaners’ in Clearfield started calling me “monsignor” and I had to break it to him that I was just a weirdo. It was off-putting to see the degree to which religion has hijacked authoritarian followers’ tendency to snap to attention in the presence of a uniform)
Marcus Ranum says
outside the laws of civilization and into the lawlessness of the jungle. Together as a nation we have been declawed. We have been neutered. We have been dehumanized.
He sounds like a pretty tough guy. I bet he’s a real street survivin’ cat. Like some kinda Harlan Ellison on acid or some shit. A real samurai with a selectric.
OK, I just came up with that, 40 years too late. Darn, I like how it sounds though.
Caine says
Marcus:
I’m pretty sure he thinks he is. I had no idea who this person was, so I had a look. Turns out that Engelhard is the author of Indecent Proposal. I have never seen that movie, although the trailer caused a near-fatal eyeroll every time I saw it. I have not read the book, either. It turns out there was quite a bit of difference between the two:
So, in the book the woman doesn’t even figure at all, this is a thing between the two men. No wonder his screed is all men, men, men.
Siobhan says
Oh, I’ve made gods, but they’re more related to whips and chains than gender variance. /snark
rq says
Siobahn
Is that all part of the transgender depravity they’re talking about…? Because that’s the kind of thing I can get behind. In a manner of speaking. Vicariously. Of course.
rq says
*ahem* Siobhan, you naughty beer fingers.
Caine says
Shiv @ 7:
Well, you have a whole cosmology to create. Plenty of room.
nowamfound says
wonder how many pedophile priests he has protected in his career for sky daddy?