Fudge packers.

Par for the coarse.

Since I'm seriously pondering giving up blogging, I've decided to vent a little about subjects that frequently come up in the blogosphere. Since it is Gay Pride month, and if my memory serves me, the Pride parade should take place in the Twin Cities this weekend or next. (It often coincides with the Stonewall revolt, back in NYC in the late 60's I think. Strange declaration of independence day for gays; it pretty much started off with a few drag queen hookers being arrested and hauled off to jail. Gays, defending their rights to assemble in their own taverns, rioted against police harrassment.)

Anyway, I digress. There's been a little bit of a war going on with the Caveman and a couple of gay Catholic bloggers. The one blog, CourageMan is a faithful Catholic blog, written by a member of Courage. The Caveman uses coarse terms to describe homosexual sex, which even people with SSA, who are manfully changing their lives in conformity with Catholic teaching, find objectionable. Yet sometimes coarse terms need to be used, like it or not, to describe sexual practices which are an abomination to God, and a mockery of the procreative act and love between a married man and woman.

A conversion story...which describes gay sex.

A man I once worked with, who happened to be gay, told me what prompted his conversion and return to the Catholic Church. He explained that he had a change of heart while he was engaged in public sex at a gay beach along the Mississippi river. He was performing an act of sodomy, that is, anal intercourse. He was using a condom, and when he withdrew, he/it was covered in fecal matter. He told me he was immediately disgusted by the sight and suddenly felt he understood then and there that the act was an abomination to God. He said he understood that it mocked the marital act. It was an act that was hostile to God and man, prompted by lust and self-gratification, while the action itself was a sort of subjugation of his partner, symbolic of domination, humiliating the partner's manhood.

Disgusting isn't it? (And gay people have the audacity to call this making love.) Sorry I am being so graphic, but sometimes we need to be aware of what things really are. Gay sex is not simply an innocent kiss on Will and Grace. Of course, heterosexuals commit sodomy as well, and it is just as much an abomination. Nevertheless, it is important to make clear the nature of sin, in the same way we have to show people what an aborted fetus looks like, dismantled, scattered on an operating table before being thrown into the garbage.

False teachers.

The reason I'm writing this is because I've read comments on other blogs by a few militant gay people, claiming to be Catholic. The comments are not limited to those blogs that come off as offensive to gay sensibilities ether. One commenter on Salve Regina, Michael Bayly, a local gay activist has his own blog, The Wild Reed; a "Catholic" blog mind you, in support of the gay agenda. Reading some of his posts, I realized why faithful Catholic blogs can be so downright hostile and coarse in writing about so-called gay Catholics who eschew Catholic teaching.

The above photo is the kind of bull-shit Bayly has on his blog. A gay image of the torso of Christ. Why is it gay? Semi-erect penis - you tell me. The torso stands in arrogant contrast to Christian art, even the neo-classical Renaissance, and ancient Greek sculpture, which glorified the male body. In classical art, male genitals are never shown to be engorged save in erotic art, from the likes of ancient Pompei or in the earlier fertility cult art of ancient civilizations. This type of imagery is the property of gay artists, or the erotic artists from what I refer to as the arte bleu period extending back to the 17th century up until our day. Late 20th century gay erotica has become less outsider art and a bit more mainstream. (Straight people rarely purchase it.) Nevertheless, the focus of the piece shown above is not Christ, but a neo-pagan idolatry of the male physique and phallus.

Just being honest.

As I stated on my other blog, Abbey Roads2, the sin of the Gentiles, in this case militant gays, is they lack charity. Therefore, even though we find the sin of Sodom to be aborrent, we need to "love our enemies, and pray for those who persecute us." - Matthew 5. For they make themselves our enemies by promoting as normative, a sin that cries out to heaven for vengeance; and they persecute us by rebelling against the Church and her teachings, and those who oppose their lifestyle.

Though I do not like using coarse terms to describe what gay sex is, sometimes it is necessary for those so deluded as to think their non-productive sex acts are expressions of love. When the Caveman or others use such terms, I believe no one is violating the the rule, "hate the sin, love the sinner" - although others will object to the terms that some choose to use, the terms themselves merely express contempt for the sin. This does not mean however, that we are unconcerned for the salvation of the sinner, which is what charity is all about.

(To read Mr. Bayly's anti-Catholic stance upon homosexual issues, read his post concerning the Church approved group Courage, entitled "The real meaning of Courage".)

That's all.