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The protesters were very small in number, nothing to worry about. Photos can be viewed here. The usual disturbed individuals came out in drag, while others carried signs saying "Arrest the pope!" and "No to dark ages morality!"
By contrast, there were three times as many Catholic counter-demonstrators, and the installation ceremony was standing room only. God bless Archbishop Cordileone and the city of Saint Francis!
Last edited by Sam I Am; 10-05-2012 at 04:05 PM..
Reason: correct link to news story per OP
"Protestors had planned to disrupt the event, but their efforts were barely noticeable. They were few, and vastly outnumbered by young people from the Archdiocese, who did not have tickets to the installation. They showed up anyway on Geary Street, in front of the cathedral plaza with signs, guitars, and rosaries, expressing support for the new archbishop ..."
The 25% of people in San Francisco who are Catholic, along with the 15% who are gay and who have had their civil rights directly targeted by Cordileone, a.k.a. "The Father Of Prop 8."
It's hardly homophobic to believe in traditional marriage.
The legalization of same-sex marriage has done absolutely nothing to harm "traditional marriage." Men are still allowed to marry women. Did you think otherwise?
Yes, I'm well aware. For example, he has advocated throwing me and all of the other gays in jail until we "repent."
I haven't worked out all of the details, but I wouldn't make a two-year jail term retroactive. You'd have advance notice and could modify your behavior accordingly.
I haven't worked out all of the details, but I wouldn't make a two-year jail term retroactive. You'd have advance notice and could modify your behavior accordingly.
How big of you.
I have a better idea: Let's maintain the status quo and keep your minority religious beliefs out of my bedroom. In exchange, I'll let your church keep its special rights (to avoid taxation, etc.). Does that sound like a good deal to you?
Way back in the late 70s and early 80s, when I was in public school, what Dr. Esolen describes here was already coming true:
"The effect upon boys is devastating; it is hard for women to understand it. Their own friendships come easily, and in general are not based upon shared conquest, physical or intellectual. It is simply an anthropological fact that male friendship is essential for the full development of the boy’s intellect: the history of every society reveals it. But now the boys suffer under a terrible pincers attack. The sexual revolution causes them to rouse themselves to interest, or to pretend to interest, in girls long before they or the girls are emotionally or intellectually ready for it; and now the condonement of homosexuality prevents them from publicly preferring the company of their own sex. This is simply inarguable…."
Normal, heterosexual boys who preferred the company of other boys were taunted as "queers" and "*******", and essentially pressured into proving their manhood by becoming popular with the girls and having sex with as many of them as possible. Male friendships that could have developed were stunted, and today most men don't have any friendships deeper than grunting over beer and football.
Last edited by Sam I Am; 10-05-2012 at 03:14 PM..
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