tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-240447238522390484.post7206023090412932136..comments2024-03-21T04:02:46.799-07:00Comments on Little Catholic Bubble: Two courageous women, two evil court rulingsLeila@LittleCatholicBubblehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09357573787143230160noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-240447238522390484.post-49290424961046828842017-03-02T22:16:10.084-07:002017-03-02T22:16:10.084-07:00What is the basis for telling a business owner who...What is the basis for telling a business owner who has a private business what types of events she must cater to? I don't understand- does the federal government really have the authority to govern the affairs of private businesses in that way? Isn't that like telling a Christian bakery they must bake a cake for a polygamous wedding, the baker refusing, and then being ordered by the court to bake the cake? Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17593706425834744030noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-240447238522390484.post-83333464067295685842017-02-28T21:53:08.147-07:002017-02-28T21:53:08.147-07:00Speaking of misguided compassion.
http://www.chri...Speaking of misguided compassion.<br /><br />http://www.christianpost.com/news/pope-francis-quietly-cuts-sanctions-for-pedophile-priests-175976/Morriganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06662339331592819738noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-240447238522390484.post-68749947671421617152017-02-27T17:31:26.803-07:002017-02-27T17:31:26.803-07:00This also describes most family feuds fairly well....This also describes most family feuds fairly well...;-)Benhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11953563578914140396noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-240447238522390484.post-54090856205274998862017-02-27T12:29:05.047-07:002017-02-27T12:29:05.047-07:00Not a pleasant task, indeed!
And only because the...Not a pleasant task, indeed!<br /><br />And only because the word "resentment" came up, this is something I just posted on my Facebook page, which I think is just spiritual gold:<br /><br />Thank you, Dr. Monica Hidalgo Breaux! The spiritual side of RESENTMENT, and how it takes hold ("...a spiritual process at work in the development of addiction"):<br />• Based on a real or imagined injury, we create and hold on to a wrong toward another; we choose to distort the truth. Rebellion and hence resentment are born. (Perhaps a more inclusive term, sin, would be more appropriate.) <br />• This distortion of reality produces a false spiritual high --satisfaction, pleasure, and release from the conflict produced by our wrong. Rebellion and resentment fill a need (really a demand). <br />• We take nourishment from the resentment; it sustains us. It sustains the new reality, which is a lie. It hides our wrong; we don't have to face it and deal with it. Thus, resentment is used as a drug. <br />• To continue justifying this wrong to ourselves, we periodically play the incident back, winning the case in court against the other person every time. By thus re-experiencing the resentment, we seek to recapture the effect of the original high. <br />• Our use of resentment thus becomes habitual, producing more wrong, which requires more of the drug to cover it. The vicious cycle is set; it has a life of its own, unrelated to the initial event. <br />• Persistence in this habit produces distress. Part of us always knows when we're wrong: the lie doesn't square with something inside us, with what we see in the real world outside, and with inputs we get from others. Plus, we feel guilty for enjoying this unnatural ecstasy, and our isolation increases. <br />• We try abstaining from this inner spiritual habit, so we act outwardly toward the objects of our resentment as though we hold no wrong against them. But this pretense deprives us of our drug (resentment), creates a new lie that needs more drug, and forces us to treat the distress of withdrawal with the medicine that provides relief -- more resentment. <br />• This mental behavior fulfills the three criteria of addiction noted earlier: tolerance, abstinence, and withdrawal. We are now fully addicted to resentment as a spiritual attitude, quite apart from any physical acting-out.<br />Excerpt from SA, p. 47-49 on RESENTMENT<br /><br />(SA is Sexaholics Anonymous, but it applies to anyone with a habit of resentment)<br />Leila@LittleCatholicBubblehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09357573787143230160noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-240447238522390484.post-75319756392037840202017-02-21T11:03:47.433-07:002017-02-21T11:03:47.433-07:00Well said Leila! But beware...
“It is not a pleasa...Well said Leila! But beware...<br />“It is not a pleasant task to call attention to the obvious. To make others appear to be shortsighted, let alone blind, may easily evoke resentment.” <br />– Fr. Stanley JakiBenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11953563578914140396noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-240447238522390484.post-60631096405571341292017-02-20T15:54:23.656-07:002017-02-20T15:54:23.656-07:00In other words, "gayness" is not part of...In other words, "gayness" is not part of a person's identity or essence, anymore than any other temptation or sins. But we are forced to affirm that it is! Crazy, crazy.Leila@LittleCatholicBubblehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09357573787143230160noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-240447238522390484.post-28579623247356176852017-02-20T15:53:16.970-07:002017-02-20T15:53:16.970-07:00Ben, you've got that right!
This is the insi...Ben, you've got that right! <br /><br />This is the insidiousness of saying that the inclination to homosexual acts is as integral to a person as his or her skin color, or even his or her own sex. It turns a temptation into an immutable part of a person's essence! And therefore, anything we do to "negate" that temptation (or refuse to indulge or participate in it) is to discriminate against the "person" and not the inclination (or an event celebrating that sinful inclination). It's so twisted, and the government has NO BUSINESS saying that declining to affirm a sexual inclination is unjust discrimination forbidden by law! It's insanity!Leila@LittleCatholicBubblehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09357573787143230160noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-240447238522390484.post-29472392242450586462017-02-20T06:57:44.487-07:002017-02-20T06:57:44.487-07:00Imagine the KKK wished to celebrate after a succes...Imagine the KKK wished to celebrate after a successful Klan rally and asked a black baker to bake a nice white cake for them, and the baker refused. Would the same court have ruled 9-0 that the baker was required by law to participate in the cerebration, and not only that, but uphold the attack on bakers assets as well — her house, her savings, her retirement funds — by requiring her to pay the attorneys’ fees racked up in the Klan suing her? I'm not a betting man, but I'm thinking they would not!<br />Benhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11953563578914140396noreply@blogger.com