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11/18/2010
Catholics stepping up holy marriage war; our wholly non-war against faith to remain exact same
Louisville, Kentucky's Archbishop Joseph E. Kurtz on the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' increased efforts against same-sex marriage:
Archbishop Kurtz said 4,500 copies of a DVD “Made for Each Other,” and its accompanying education materials had been distributed around the country, and other materials are in development aimed at teaching children. He also announced that there are plans to hire a full-time staff adviser at the USCCB on marriage and family
Archbishop Kurtz: A 'Roe Moment' for Marriage? [National Catholic Register]
Well first off: We don't know what the 1939 Carole Lombard/Jimmy Stewart classic Made For Each Other...
...has to do with faith-based resistance to civil marriage. But okay, whatever. We learn about Catholics from Dominique and The Sound of Music, so we do know how invaluable Turner Classic Movies can be.
But no, what we really wanna focus on is the materials they're sending out to teach kids. Because what are these folks always saying about us? That we indoctrinate children. That we recruit. That we try to capture the young minds when they are young and malleable. Yet here we have the Catholic Church doing just that. Proudly. Unapologetically. And of course whereas our efforts to educate youth are all based on a casual, benign, instinctual acceptance of the world's population for what it truly is, the Catholic Church's effort is all about telling kids that certain, cherry-picked faith condemnations have cast millions of the world's creatures into the realm of sin, where celibacy is the best hope for a happy life. Sorry, but that kind of teaching is the very definition of indoctrination (whether you agree with it or not)!
Archbishop Kurtz says he is so concerned about this, at this time, "today is like 1970 for marriage”:
“If you had seen Roe v. Wade coming three years out, what would you have done differently?”
Our answer: We would've given thanks for being born into a country with a co-equal branch of government that, like all branches of government, are to be separated from personal faith-based whims or unfair impediments that are drummed up a motivated majority. Then we would've drug our bell-bottomed booties back to our Tang and first-run "Brady Bunch" episode. And we'd hope that fair-minded Americans of 2010 would do the exact same of us (except with skinny cords, Red Bull, and "Glee")
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