tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-240447238522390484.post4261503903204464455..comments2024-03-21T04:02:46.799-07:00Comments on Little Catholic Bubble: Square circles win the dayLeila@LittleCatholicBubblehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09357573787143230160noreply@blogger.comBlogger287125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-240447238522390484.post-30987149639683681832013-07-09T07:04:15.665-07:002013-07-09T07:04:15.665-07:00Chris: ""Chris, why are you attracted to...Chris: ""Chris, why are you attracted to women and not men?"<br /><br />Because women have the primary and secondary sex characteristics that trigger sexual arousal in a male. Your genes want you to further them. If they did not, they (the genes) would cease to exist in several generations. Since you cannot produce offspring with: males, prepubescent children and elderly women, not to mention animate beings of differing species....it is a total waste to be sexually aroused by them. <br /><br />Since we evolved through tribal groups, and must live with each other...bonding is another key element of our relationships....so I can see how some affection, attraction to the same sex might have arisen, but to be exclusive...and so strong as to compel the kind and frequency of action I witnessed in the Castro....is totally a mystery.maryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05613163382453563548noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-240447238522390484.post-14412235597709184922013-07-02T04:00:45.026-07:002013-07-02T04:00:45.026-07:00The redefining of marriage to (progressively) incl...The redefining of marriage to (progressively) include sodomy, polygamy, polyamory, bestiality, incest, etc... is only the first step.<br /><br />Following closely on each perverting, will be the beefing up and enforcement of anti discrimination and “hate speech” laws, using the full coercive powers of the state to muzzle dissenters and force everyone's active co-operation in all aspects of the national abominations - just leave the half wit politicians and clueless justices enthroned by today's dumbed down populace in place long enough to do their worst.<br /><br />Finally we'll get around to Affirmative Action for all these “long persecuted minorities”. Preference in housing. Preference in adoptions. Towns compelled to support "diverse love" centered activities. More celebration of "gaiety" and "variety" and "choice" in education curricula. Annual Happy Progenitors Day (replacing separate Mothers and Fathers Days). Punishments meted out to Churches not fully respectful of these new “rights” of people (like forcing the Catholic church out of the adoption business in MA).<br /><br />We haven’t opened a can of worms, folks. We’ve tipped a whole barrel of them on society. Soon enough the creepy crawlies will be under a bed near you. And you'll be paying (in every sense of the word) for them to play.Francis Choudhuryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01146223983345452362noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-240447238522390484.post-6784008221451832902013-07-02T01:25:30.406-07:002013-07-02T01:25:30.406-07:00Mare, don't forget these guys. They are watchi...Mare, don't forget these guys. They are watching how it plays out to make their own legal moves.<br /><br />http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2009-08-20/news/those-who-practice-bestiality-say-they-re-part-of-the-next-gay-rights-movement/Leila@LittleCatholicBubblehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09357573787143230160noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-240447238522390484.post-23409042238945238912013-07-02T00:08:26.234-07:002013-07-02T00:08:26.234-07:00Peace be with you and MomPeace be with you and MomAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15188319685568262029noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-240447238522390484.post-17020346760782886642013-06-30T19:01:29.811-07:002013-06-30T19:01:29.811-07:00Yep, I was so disappointed in the court's ruli...Yep, I was so disappointed in the court's ruling. You are right in that the fallout from this will be down the road. People are short-term thinkers...whatever feels good and "fair" NOW. We are now on the slippery slope. soon, there will be a fight for "multiple" people in a relationship, then it will be adult/children arrangements. We are on our way to Sodom. Marianne (Mare) Baker Ballhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03663143060069193124noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-240447238522390484.post-72349899856145687582013-06-30T09:09:48.661-07:002013-06-30T09:09:48.661-07:00DD, amen! And the more I read and learn, the more ...DD, amen! And the more I read and learn, the more problematic the "right" to gay "marriage" is, because it involves children and "right" to them that can only come via a troubling ART industry with no regard for the inherent rights of those children. More on that to come.Leila@LittleCatholicBubblehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09357573787143230160noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-240447238522390484.post-55657303867232467282013-06-30T05:07:08.660-07:002013-06-30T05:07:08.660-07:00A gal I work with gave me the "usual" ar...A gal I work with gave me the "usual" argument. "It's none of my business what people do behind closed doors so why shouldn't they marry?" Huh? If they just kept it "behind closed doors" that's one thing, but they aren't. They are trying to force the rest of us to not only accept it but AGREE THAT THEY SHOULD BE ABLE TO MARRY EACH OTHER JUST 'CAUSE THEY WANT TO. That's where we have to draw the line. Just like abortion, because it's "legal" people think that makes it right. No, it doesn't. NO IT DOESN'T. "Marriage" is between a man and a woman. If not, then it's not "marriage." My biggest complaint is that people are fighting for "gay marriage." There is no such thing. DDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02274091412731174214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-240447238522390484.post-56720210644591992192013-06-30T04:23:44.917-07:002013-06-30T04:23:44.917-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.DDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02274091412731174214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-240447238522390484.post-22132482986220493582013-06-30T02:41:55.463-07:002013-06-30T02:41:55.463-07:00Amen, Leila and Francis!
And while I'm at it...Amen, Leila and Francis! <br /><br />And while I'm at it, thank you Nubby for your sweet words a while ago! I stand my mine, though :-) Sebastianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03993048824594772782noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-240447238522390484.post-32538454656363599462013-06-30T01:53:29.804-07:002013-06-30T01:53:29.804-07:00Sebastian, agreed. Sometimes I wonder if we aren&#...Sebastian, agreed. Sometimes I wonder if we aren't overreacting (like even some good Catholics say), but then I remember that the family is where Satan strikes to do his deepest damage. As the family goes, there goes society (was that JPII?). And, the fight for marriage is one of the non-negotiables of our faith, according to our popes. So, we fight on. Always in hope, always in joy, but we fight on for the souls that are being lost. <br /><br />Saint Michael the Archangel,<br />defend us in battle.<br />Be our protection against the wickedness and snares of the devil.<br />May God rebuke him, we humbly pray;<br />and do Thou, O Prince of the Heavenly Host -<br />by the Divine Power of God -<br />cast into hell, satan and all the evil spirits,<br />who prowl about the world seeking the ruin of souls.<br />Amen.Leila@LittleCatholicBubblehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09357573787143230160noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-240447238522390484.post-89010269136187508682013-06-30T01:51:21.476-07:002013-06-30T01:51:21.476-07:00Sebastian,
0.5%. This is precisely the point - th...Sebastian,<br /><br />0.5%. This is precisely the point - that marriage, a most essential and clearly understood social institution, as old as mankind itself, is being redefined in line with the preposterous new age notions of 0.5% of the population as to what a marriage (and, by extension, a human family) is! <br /><br />We're quite happy to live and let live; the overwhelming majority with our idea (until now the universal idea) of marriage and family, and the gay community with their dangerous and nonsensical version of it, but they're not content with that. They want to force all of us (using all the coercive powers of the state) to distort the meaning of marriage - from being an institution encompassing love, sex and procreation, to merely a governmental stamp for (fickle) emotional attachments, so that they can gain legal and financial benefits and, hopefully, societal blessings for what is no more and no less than a private sexual aberration/perversion. <br /><br />The fact of the matter is Christianity (authentic Christianity) and "gay marriage" cannot coexist. Because once "gay marriage" has been widely introduced and bedded down (so to speak), as sure as night follows day, there'll be a raft of anti discrimination and "hate speech" laws accompanying it, to severely punish any unaccepting types. Here's an article that'll hopefully make this clear:<br /><br />http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/blog/why-the-catholic-church-and-gay-marriage-cannot-coexist/<br /><br />As the author of the article correctly warns: "Make no mistake, the legalization of “gay marriage” is the criminalization of Church teaching on marriage." So, it'll either be a) follow your religious convictions (and patent commonsense) and be branded a criminal to be fined, run out of business or thrown in jail or b) deny Truth (Who is Christ Himself) and gaily accept that invitation to the drag show at a pumping gay bar near you.<br /><br />It shouldn't be too long now - just watch this space.Francis Choudhuryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01146223983345452362noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-240447238522390484.post-55691907398583877432013-06-30T00:03:51.749-07:002013-06-30T00:03:51.749-07:00It occurred to me briefly yesterday that perhaps w...It occurred to me briefly yesterday that perhaps we are getting a little overexcited and apocalyptic about this issue, and this may be a small victory for the devil we should not grant him: After all, if say 2% of the population is gay, and no more than 50% of those even wish to live in monogamy and marry, and again at least 50% of those who marry will divorce soon enough, we are talking about max. 0.5% of the population being gay and "married" and remaining so (tons of assumptions and simplifications, I know).<br /><br />But then I realized: Not only is each one of them, and each adopted / manufactured child into such union one too many, but that Lucifer, the morning star, the bringer of light, has already won his battle through the corruption of the minds of more than 50% of the population. You see, we are to celebrate Love! Who could be against that? It is by corrupting our minds and culture that the devil spreads destruction. This is where we must fight him.. We must pray, and inform, and be courageous to stand up for the Truth. Nothing less is expected of us. Sebastianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03993048824594772782noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-240447238522390484.post-20518249998508514422013-06-29T23:19:46.540-07:002013-06-29T23:19:46.540-07:00Francis, Amen to all of that! :)Francis, Amen to all of that! :)Leila@LittleCatholicBubblehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09357573787143230160noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-240447238522390484.post-18680989476966832172013-06-29T22:40:09.696-07:002013-06-29T22:40:09.696-07:00Leila, speaking of battles (against powers and pri...Leila, speaking of battles (against powers and principalities), I think in military terms the following qualifies as a pincer movement.<br /><br />You go to a wedding store and get confronted with images of gay men laughing on their "wedding" day. Disgusted with the hijacking and mockery of the sacred, you go and open a store of your own, adorned with beautiful pictures of real married couples. <br /><br />But then the king's men come around and shut you down for being bigoted, hateful and discriminatory by not displaying pictures of gay men and lesbian women laughing at *their" respective "weddings"!<br /><br />Sigh. Pincer movement: aka double envelopment. A lot of innocent blood will flow, I suspect, before Truth finally sets mankind free from this one!<br /><br />P.S. God bless that fired up old priest! He's obviously past the stage where he can be bought. Owned by the world, that is. A few among his listeners walking out on him actually served well to prove his authenticity! Just like they did with Jesus!Francis Choudhuryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01146223983345452362noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-240447238522390484.post-1526814482592633162013-06-29T21:52:58.907-07:002013-06-29T21:52:58.907-07:00Gentlemen, my sister goes to a parish with a rathe...Gentlemen, my sister goes to a parish with a rather lukewarm priest, but today she called me up excitedly after Saturday mass and told me about a wonderful (and mystical, holy) old priest who is very beloved (and whose 65th anniversary of ordination was <i>today</i>!!), who gave the most powerful homily stating that this issue is about fighting powers and principalities (just like abortion). He said that he became a priest to <i>save souls</i>, and that we have to remember that this issue is about eternal fates! Souls are being lost for all eternity, and our nation is going to the devil, basically (he also prayed the St. Michael prayer, which my own parish has done regularly now for some time). He was fired up, and she said that although a couple of people walked out, he actually got a rousing round of applause at the end! Even in a lukewarmish parish! People want to hear the truth. We need to know that this is not a fight against other people, this is a fight for souls, between us and the devil. We want souls to be saved, and get to Heaven! We cannot concede even one soul to the devil. Maybe some folks will start to wake up. My sis said there was a long line of people waiting to greet Father after the mass. :)<br /><br />Then, just a couple of hours later, a disturbing thing: I walked into a Crate and Barrel store while browsing a mall, and looked for the bridal registry so that I could see what my daughter had picked out with her fiance. I could NOT believe my eyes when the registry display had a picture of two laughing <i>men</i> on their "wedding" day, holding their invitation! To think that we are at a point when a store would <i>not</i> put a picture of a bride and groom at the bridal registry (no such photo was to be found!), but two dudes!! I turned to my husband and he was stunned, too. I felt sick to my stomach. When I punched in the names for the registry, it didn't even say "bride's name" or "groom's name", just "name". The whole thing made me want to exit that store. We soon did. How awful to see that photo, such a twisting of what is real. It's honestly a mockery of marriage. So, so, so sad. Leila@LittleCatholicBubblehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09357573787143230160noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-240447238522390484.post-25856847916988999712013-06-29T21:25:18.170-07:002013-06-29T21:25:18.170-07:00Chris, were you a comedian or satirist in a previo...Chris, were you a comedian or satirist in a previous incarnation? :)<br /><br />But seriously, the more I think about this ludicrous notion of "gay marriage", the more it occurs to me what a monstrosity we are about to create and foist on our future generations. <br /><br />A family is an organism, a living, functioning and developing body. And, as even the most casual observer would know, every body needs a head in which directive power is vested (even when that is delegated), to function and develop in an orderly way. A body with no head is dead. While a body with two heads (e.g., "co-husbands" or "co-wives") is rightly recognized and loathed as a freak, a monster. <br /><br />All these half-baked surveys and "scientific" studies to date that proclaim otherwise - that a mommy can be just as good a daddy, and vice versa (contrary to the overwhelming testimony of single parents), or that two "mommies" or two "daddies" are equivalent to a naturally complementary mom and dad, will eventually be exposed for the fraudulent fabrications they are, but not before countless innocent children will have lost their real identities and rightful healthy formative experiences in life - to the detriment of all of society. Make no mistake, every man, woman and child in a society undermined from the building block up, must pay an ugly and violent price.<br /><br />Who started this tsunami of imbecility and injustice that is now sweeping across an increasingly godless (and therefore witless) Western world? Why, the Father of Lies and Murderer from the Beginning, of course!Francis Choudhuryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01146223983345452362noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-240447238522390484.post-73876931493067976732013-06-29T19:13:19.382-07:002013-06-29T19:13:19.382-07:00Square Circles, good way to describe things. Square Circles, good way to describe things. Annhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00827076515329274214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-240447238522390484.post-21364645350217883072013-06-29T18:22:19.363-07:002013-06-29T18:22:19.363-07:00Goodness sake man! By the time I finished reading ...Goodness sake man! By the time I finished reading this it was Rod Sterling's voice in my head. ".....and through that next door...The Twilight Zone. You cranked open a memory from long ago. My mom must have read that to me 200 times as a little boy. It was in a book with lots of international kids stories and poems and had these vivid color illustrations of the blind men feeli g the trunk etc. And so fitting for this post. It surely conjures that uniquely mother/son exchange that was entirely feminen . No way my Dad touches that. But he would tell me with great concern and detail about those poor bastards who died in the sand on Iwo Jima for love of country and neighbor or sit with me watching "the Bridge on the river Kwai " and not say word except " tough deal !"<br />Both things totally unique and formative. Thanks for the strange trip.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15188319685568262029noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-240447238522390484.post-61330997489645966812013-06-29T08:46:42.555-07:002013-06-29T08:46:42.555-07:00Do Not Be Anxious, I am so sorry about your mom! G...Do Not Be Anxious, I am so sorry about your mom! God rest her soul. Yes, what a hard week to hear all this news. And my husband had told me about the Mary Eberstadt book (she is a brilliant intellect), and I think I may have to get my hand on it and do a review. It makes sense. And oh, how I wish people would be required to read de Tocqueville!<br /><br />You are right that there is an ebb and flow to sin. When things get so dark and oppressive and miserable (even for the ones who "started the fire" so to speak), people swing back towards God. But a lot of ugliness, sin, regret, suffering, injustice, death and lost souls may come in the meantime. The post I'm working on makes me think that it's the generations of children who are the experiments in this brave new world who will bring us out of the pit one day, but that cry of "enough!" in the world that demands, "I want it!" will probably have to play out long after I am dead and maybe my children as well. We can be praying from Heaven then, God willing. ;)<br /><br />Hugs, friend!Leila@LittleCatholicBubblehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09357573787143230160noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-240447238522390484.post-10388266736344405922013-06-29T07:22:17.625-07:002013-06-29T07:22:17.625-07:00The relationship between marriage, children, faith...The relationship between marriage, children, faith, and secularism are discussed with many supporting studies and trend charts in Mary Eberstadt's book: How the West REALLY Lost God. She postulates, with evidence, that having children promotes increases in faith. In her book she cites Tocqueville, "who considered the American way of marriage fundamental to the national experiment."<br /><br />Regardless, it's been a sad week for me. Mom dying, court rulings, and a seeming endless number of shows asserting/supporting "my right to do anything". Maybe it's just the weight of all my feelings right now, but my thoughts are that just as no one can command we join a church, no one can command that we don't sin. Many laws were made based on Christian morality. As Christian morality goes away, those laws go away. <br /><br />And as the Christian underpinnings of Western culture are "un-pinned," the culture will go away also. But none of that is cast in stone; faith and sinning have ebbed and flowed throughout history. Is having more children a door toward more faith? I don't know, but we do need to choose the battle we want to fight to save our culture from those who would say "I dunno; Sodom sounds like it must have been a nice place."<br /><br />Do not be anxious; God is with us --- even those who don't believe so. Do Not Be Anxioushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04607616214486933423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-240447238522390484.post-26801343175748969322013-06-29T00:47:43.802-07:002013-06-29T00:47:43.802-07:00Oh my gosh. How anyone could say that children are...Oh my gosh. How anyone could say that children are not treated like commodities (chattel, really) after reading this!<br /><br />http://beyondstraightandgaymarriage.blogspot.com/2013/06/dc-considers-new-surrogacy-legislation.html<br /><br />I want to throw up. Leila@LittleCatholicBubblehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09357573787143230160noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-240447238522390484.post-86395273757416984552013-06-28T23:15:34.747-07:002013-06-28T23:15:34.747-07:00Oh, how I wish those who can't see a differenc...Oh, how I wish those who can't see a difference in men and women would read Steve Gershom, a man with SSA:<br /><br />http://www.stevegershom.com/2013/06/exodus-part-2-overhaul/Leila@LittleCatholicBubblehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09357573787143230160noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-240447238522390484.post-53217119455033184902013-06-28T19:34:40.678-07:002013-06-28T19:34:40.678-07:00All this talk that has arisen from the attempted d...All this talk that has arisen from the attempted deconstruction of marriage into its component parts (love, sex, offspring - with only the love element of it now being said to constitute marriage) reminds me of a poem I learned in primary school in India. Maybe some of you know it. (P.S. Indostan was an old name for India, during the British Raj).<br /><br />THE BLIND MEN AND THE ELEPHANT<br />John Godfrey Saxe (1816-1887)<br /><br />It was six men of Indostan<br />To learning much inclined,<br />Who went to see the Elephant<br />(Though all of them were blind),<br />That each by observation<br />Might satisfy his mind.<br /> <br />The First approached the Elephant,<br />And happening to fall<br />Against his broad and sturdy side,<br />At once began to bawl:<br />"God bless me! but the Elephant<br />Is very like a WALL!"<br /><br /> <br />The Second, feeling of the tusk,<br />Cried, "Ho, what have we here,<br />So very round and smooth and sharp?<br />To me 'tis mighty clear<br />This wonder of an Elephant<br />Is very like a SPEAR!"<br /> <br />The Third approached the animal,<br />And happening to take<br />The squirming trunk within his hands,<br />Thus boldly up and spake:<br />"I see," quoth he, "the Elephant<br />Is very like a SNAKE!"<br /> <br />The Fourth reached out an eager hand, <br />And felt about the knee<br />"What most this wondrous beast is like<br />Is mighty plain," quoth he:<br />"'Tis clear enough the Elephant<br />Is very like a TREE!"<br /> <br />The Fifth, who chanced to touch the ear,<br />Said: "E'en the blindest man<br />Can tell what this resembles most;<br />Deny the fact who can,<br />This marvel of an Elephant<br />Is very like a FAN!"<br /> <br />The Sixth no sooner had begun<br />About the beast to grope,<br />Than seizing on the swinging tail<br />That fell within his scope,<br />"I see," quoth he, "the Elephant<br />Is very like a ROPE!"<br /> <br />And so these men of Indostan<br />Disputed loud and long,<br />Each in his own opinion<br />Exceeding stiff and strong,<br />Though each was partly in the right,<br />And all were in the wrong!<br /><br />When folks (of various dispositions and sexual inclinations - with surely more to follow currently vociferous homosexuals) clamor for "marriage equality" perhaps the first thing we all need to do is carefully consider the elephant in the room - which is the substance/definition/purpose of marriage itself.Francis Choudhuryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01146223983345452362noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-240447238522390484.post-52178744132993709202013-06-28T17:39:10.183-07:002013-06-28T17:39:10.183-07:00And here I was thinking of the angelic Millers, qu...And here I was thinking of the angelic Millers, quietly sitting around saying their prayers with their brightly shining halos...No mischief, just tranquil prayers and bible reading...hahaMargohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09456678968658724716noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-240447238522390484.post-4975221572235569842013-06-28T17:37:19.080-07:002013-06-28T17:37:19.080-07:00Margo, you are too sweet!! You'd get a rude aw...Margo, you are too sweet!! You'd get a rude awakening, ha ha! We are a weird and wooly bunch….Leila@LittleCatholicBubblehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09357573787143230160noreply@blogger.com