Friday, April 16, 2004
The Rapid City Journal
April 16, 2004
On Valentine's Day, Msgr. O'Connell, bemoaned the Orwellian redefinitions of terms like "marriage" and "abortion." The lexicon has evolved, but I’d argue we haven’t changed enough.
Those for whom seven Bible verses on homosexuality are more important than the other 31,000, let's re-label "Leviticians." Stop pretending to honor the man who rallied against the perversion of religion by an elite that created laws to the suppress those around them. Let the term "Christian" be used by those who do as he actually taught and tend not to the gilding temples with gold and stained glass, but to immigrants, widows and orphans, the downtrodden and oppressed.
Until all these religions (including those with the right not to believe) can align themselves in agreement, lets not use the "strong religious beliefs" when we really mean "bigotry."
For the positions in religious hierarchy who staged a multi-decade cover-up harming not just their own communities but others where sexual harassment of all orientations were allowed to continue: let’s call these Bishops and Cardinals "legal accessories."
And politicians refusing to stand up for the entirety of their community and only commit only to views allowed by their churches or opponents, let's rightfully call them "cowards."
April 16, 2004
On Valentine's Day, Msgr. O'Connell, bemoaned the Orwellian redefinitions of terms like "marriage" and "abortion." The lexicon has evolved, but I’d argue we haven’t changed enough.
Those for whom seven Bible verses on homosexuality are more important than the other 31,000, let's re-label "Leviticians." Stop pretending to honor the man who rallied against the perversion of religion by an elite that created laws to the suppress those around them. Let the term "Christian" be used by those who do as he actually taught and tend not to the gilding temples with gold and stained glass, but to immigrants, widows and orphans, the downtrodden and oppressed.
Until all these religions (including those with the right not to believe) can align themselves in agreement, lets not use the "strong religious beliefs" when we really mean "bigotry."
For the positions in religious hierarchy who staged a multi-decade cover-up harming not just their own communities but others where sexual harassment of all orientations were allowed to continue: let’s call these Bishops and Cardinals "legal accessories."
And politicians refusing to stand up for the entirety of their community and only commit only to views allowed by their churches or opponents, let's rightfully call them "cowards."
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