More Local Coverage of the COURAGE Conference Protests

I looked through three stories and never did see a count of the number of protesters...Ironically, it seems to me, there were more protesters supporting homosexuality than there were supporting the so-called "Catholic teachers' union"...

Members of the Catholic Action Network for Social Justice, an independent local group, protested across Grand Boulevard from St. Francis Xavier (College) Church on Thursday night. Members of that group say Courage hurts gay and lesbian Catholics when the church should be welcoming to all.

"Gay? Fine by me," one sign said. "Love needs no cure," read another.
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"It's a false message [what Courage does] that every scientific, medical and psychological study ever done contradicts," said Sam Cinnet, president of Dignity USA, a group of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender Catholics.

Really, Sam? Every study ever done? Me thinks this is wishful thinking...

"Homosexuality is not a choice," he said. "My homosexuality is just as much a gift from God as anyone's heterosexuality."

Again, more wishful thinking...just as my various inclinations toward certain sins are "gifts" from God?...I suppose that I am to believe that I am free to act on those inclinations (being gifts from God) and I incur no culpability for my sins? How utterly convenient! No more remorse or guilt! No more confession! FREE AT LAST from the shackles of sin!

That is the message of "Dignity" and every other group which claims to speak against the natural moral law. It's a shame that these people were not around to enlighten St Paul with his "thorns in his flesh"...We might well have a different canon of Scripture were that the case.

"This stuff damages people," Cinnet said. "It's spiritual violence (that suggests) either God screwed up or you screwed up."

Yes, my friends, we are to believe that the truth, and the natural moral law, and the teachings of the Church, and God's desire that we refrain from sin - these things - are sources of "spiritual violence". We are to believe that it is not the bondage of sin, the slavery of sin, our unwillingness to do what is right that is the source of our own self-inflicted "spiritual violence". If we accept that premise, then we must believe that God is the source of that "spiritual violence"...And this, because of what we understand about God, is impossible.

"The purpose of Courage is to provide support for men and women with same-sex attractions who want to live a chaste life," [Christine Nair, speaking for Courage,] said. "We're not trying to 'cure' anyone. We provide spiritual support."

As throughout the history of man, some do not want to lead chaste lives. This was made manifest by those in the protest...