Monday, June 04, 2007

Gay Brownshirts on the March

British Gay activists want to strip the Catholic Church of its schools for obsitinately persisting in Catholicism.

I'm the last guy to downplay the nastiness of bullying, as I made clear last year. I doubt very much that Catholic schools actually intend to countenance bullying. What I would certainly find objectionable in their position is having policies dictated to the school by Stonewall, an organizaton whose sole purpose is the destruction of those standards to which the Church adheres. It would be like having all-black schools handed their policies by the Ku Klux Klan, and shut down if they complained.

No, the real purpose here is to punish the Church, or any other organization that maintains that homosexual behavior is (or even can ever be) a sin. It's a tool that can be used to crush dissent. "How dare those Papists continue to believe that something we... we... do is a sin? They must be silenced!"

Think it can't be done? It's happened before. A long time ago, true, but under similar circumstances. The Church believed things that the government disapproved of, and the givernment retaliated. Eventually, of course, it was banned outright.

A tip of the Akubra to Mark Shea, the Godfather of St. Blog's Parish, for both the link and the title.

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