Right Wing Family Group Likes KKK Analogy

[Lucky]

People really think this way:

On Friday, Dec. 30, 2011, the Chicago Tribune's editorial board published their opinion of Cardinal Francis George's comments on Chicago's "gay pride" parade. Referring to Cardinal George's hope that the "gay liberation movement" would not "morph into something like the Ku Klux Klan, demonstrating in the streets against Catholicism," the editors used the adjective "bizarre."

The board's characterization of his analogy as "bizarre" reveals several things: It reveals the editorial board's obvious and increasingly strident liberal bent; it reveals that they, like many homosexual activists, possess an obtuseness when it comes to analogies; and it reveals their ignorance of the views and rhetoric of many within the "gay liberation" movement.

As I wrote last week, in expressing his hope that the "gay liberation movement" would not "morph into something like the Ku Klux Klan, demonstrating in the streets against the Catholicism," Cardinal George was comparing the anti-Catholic rhetoric and offensive parades of the KKK to the anti-Catholic rhetoric and offensive parades of the "gay liberation" movement.

Cardinal George never argued that the racism or violence of the KKK was analogous to the actions of the "gay liberation" movement. Rather, he suggested that both groups see the Catholic Church as an enemy. That claim is indisputable.

I think it's unlikely that the parade organizers planned the route and time change to disrupt services at Mount Saint Carmel Church, but the utter contempt for the sensibilities and beliefs of all people who hold orthodox Christian beliefs is obvious in the planning and execution of this sorry spectacle that regularly violates public decency laws, indecency which the Trib editors euphemistically trivialize when they with feigned coyness state that anyone who attends the parade will "get an eyeful" (nudge, nudge, wink, wink).

Homosexual journalist and "lapsed Catholic," Rex Wockner writes:

The Chicago gay pride parade attracts 800,000 people. It proceeds through a heavily congested, dense urban cityscape. Absolutely positively everything in its wake is disrupted. What on earth makes one service at one church on one day special enough to change the start time of a gigantic parade?

The "gay liberation" movement couldn't care less if their parade of perversion and egregious public lewdness disrupts the services of scores of churches. And likely the Trib's editorial board doesn't care either.

Worse than their obtuseness regarding Cardinal George's analogy is the editorial board's dishonest misrepresentation of his comments. The editors conclude by asserting that the parade does not "stifle anyone's religious beliefs." Nice rhetorical trick. The deceit, of course, is that Cardinal George never claimed the parade would stifle beliefs. He said it might "interfere" with worship. Surely, the editors would concede that it's possible that it might interfere with worship services. Those who don't want to see public nudity or wild celebrations of sexual perversion, or who don't want their children to see such images, might justifiably deem the parade an interference.

Although Cardinal George did not refer to "stifling religious belief," the editors did, so I will respond: They must be kidding. Are they actually arguing that no member of the "gay liberation" movement seeks to stifle religious belief? Many in the movement to normalize homosexuality seek to eradicate all orthodox religious belief or at minimum make it so socially, legally, and politically costly that no one will dare express such beliefs. The "gay liberation" movement poses a serious threat to First Amendment religious protections (not to mention speech and parental rights).

In addition, the virulent hatred many homosexual activists have for Catholic (and Protestant) orthodoxy is fully comparable to the virulent hatred that members of the KKK had. Perhaps the Trib's editorial board should spend more time visiting some of the infamous "gay" blogs whose commenters regularly spew intolerant, uncivil, and vulgar hatred toward the Catholic Church.

As journalists, the Tribune editorial board should remember ACT-UP's interference with services at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York, Bash Back's interference with a church service in Michigan, the interference of services at Holy Name Cathedral, and the hateful protests in front of Moody Church -- all of which were done at least to oppose if not "stifle" religious belief.

Any absolute claim that homosexuals will never organize a march to oppose the Catholic Church would seem naive, foolish, and maybe even bizarre. I, like Cardinal George, hope it will never happen.

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