In this past election the only thing that came to the surface about your children in school was the Furries. The allegations of litter boxes in classrooms and children who spoke to one another in snarls and barks. It actually sounded like the neighborhood I grew up in.
But in a recent headline in the city of Denver, the Archdiocese of Denver issued guidance to Catholic schools. Don’t enroll transgender children. The guidance on handling LBGTQ issues, including telling administrators not to enroll or re-enroll transgender or gender non-conforming students, and that gay parents should be treated differently than heterosexual couples. The document was titled “Guidance for Issues Concerning the Human Person and Sexual Identity” was obtained by The Denver Post. The spread of gender ideology presents a danger to the faith of Christians. Now which of us is going to be the first to laugh. The Catholic Church?
How many cases of sexual abuse of children by Catholic priests, nuns, cardinals, popes, and members of the religious life? Beginning in the 1990s the Catholic hierarchy has covered up sex abuse allegations by moving abusive priests to other parishes where their abuse continued. Kind of sounds like the Boy Scouts, doesn’t it? Remember the coverage of the Catholic Church scandal in the Archdiocese of Boston exposed by the Boston Globe in 2002? The abuse was in Europe, Australia, Chile, and certainly here in Denver, Colorado.
We saw how many times Roman Catholic priests were moved on to another diocese to do it again. Isn’t it a little hypocritical to now do this to people who are open about their sexuality, want to bring their children or grandchildren for a private education in Holy Mother Church?
If you do a bit of background work, in the French church 216,000 children, mostly boys, were sexually abused by the clergy of the French Catholic Church. 216,000. That study is 2,500 pages long. Start to tie into Jehovah’s Witnesses the number of cases of sex abuse. Pulling the same rabbit out of the same hat as the Catholic Church by covering it up.
The Boy Scouts also knew about Scout Masters who were molesting boys. And also moved them from state to state. Some horrible stories that you can read about where these one-time Boys Scouts, now grown men, talk about what the Scout Masters did to them. The manner of abuse and grooming the boys seems to follow suit with exactly how the Catholic priests did the same.
So now how does Jesus, who wants to speak and show compassion have these people turned away at the door? Is that unconditional love? Faithful to church teachings? In Michigan the Catholic Diocese says gay and trans people cannot be baptized or receive communion. They instruct priests on how to develop pastoral relationships with persons who have same sex attraction and lead them closer to Jesus Christ by being consistent with Church teachings on being gay.
I’m always told by my fanatical religious friends that being gay is a choice. So, I ask all of you reading this, when was your choice day? I didn’t have it. The first girl I ever kissed came to a ball game where I was playing baseball with some older guys and she was one of the girls when the sun went down you could kiss her. I didn’t want to kiss the shortstop, or the kid on second base, and I certainly didn’t want to kiss the kid who played catcher. But boy did the lights go on the first time I got to kiss (her name will be not be used to protect the innocent). But that was my magic moment. Sure, I loved the Pittsburgh Pirates and Bruno Sammartino, but I’ll be dammed if I had a choice in the matter.
I’d like to thank the Catholic Church for once again airing the hypocrisy in their sex abuse cases across the country. And why is it the deeper you go into your reading, the more you go into these horrific crimes, the more times it appears it’s religious organizations and institutions, and outfits like the Boy Scouts who are involved?
Peace on Earth good will toward men.
— Peter Boyles