Just recently, the Executive Branch of the US Government
authorized the Department of Defense to allow its chaplains to celebrate
so-called marriages of same sex couples wherever it is allowed by state law.
Archbishop Broglio of the Archdiocese for Military Services said under
no circumstances will Catholic chaplains witness so-called same sex
marriages. Archbishop Broglio also noted
that he did not see how the administration could authorize such unions when
Federal Law prohibits it in the Defense of Marriage Act.
Recently, as well, the executive branch has drafted new
guidelines which could require catholic doctors, nurses, and other health care
professionals, even those working in Catholic hospitals and the institutions
themselves, to perform direct sterilizations and abortions.
You might not think that so-called same sex marriage and
these other issues are related, but I can tell you that many people who study
these things in our society know they are.
This generation's elites combat truth with ideology, character
assassination, deception, and of course, denial. The two defining issues of the
day which will determine the course of our culture, and the destiny of our
nation, are abortion and homosexuality... Pro-choice, and homosexual and
lesbian activists, all claim their cause is a Civil Rights issue. Yet the
"Civil Rights" of the unborn children are being denied, and it is
intellectually dishonest to claim a "right" for yourself, and by so
doing, deny the rights of someone else, especially when that someone is an
unborn infant.” Writing in an article
entitled “Homosexuality, Abortion and Dr. Martin Luther King, he adds, “What
probably grieves me the most is that they both claim Rev. Dr. Martin Luther
King as an icon for their cause, when essentially nothing could be further from
the truth. Dr. King was a chief facilitator of the Civil Rights Movement, and
by his death at the hand of an assassin, paid the ultimate price for his cause.
Freeing African-Americans from centuries of slavery, bigotry and racism, does
not equate with sexual preference, and so in some ways, Dr. King's writings are
more relevant, imperative, and apropos today than when he first penned them
decades ago… The pimping of Dr. King by the racist abortion industry and by
homosexual and lesbian activists, needs to cease.
Frankly, it is difficult to see how these troubling
developments in the government do not constitute a direct attack on religion,
particularly Christians, and especially Catholics. There appears to be little effort in these
new guidelines to provide for genuine respect of conscience in such a way
that we would not be required to participate in these moral evils. As you may know, already in some major
metropolitan areas Catholic Charities has been forced to remove itself from
placing babies for adoption because of state laws that require that we place
them with same sex couples.
As we consider these things, we realize that we are speaking
of the institution of marriage, the meaning of sexuality, and the freedom of
man and woman to fulfill their parental role.
Marriage and child bearing as a holy institution has always been the
subject of attack, even in the time of Jesus.
When the Pharisees approach Jesus about the question of divorce, as is
reported in Matthew’s Gospel, Jesus tells them that Moses allowed divorce due
to the hardness of their hearts but it was not so from the beginning when God
created man and woman and instituted marriage.
Jesus, of course, makes it clear that what God has joined, no man can
separate.
Very early in the Church, St. Augustine defended marriage as
a holy institution against those who saw marriage and child-bearing in all
sorts of strange ways. Some of his
opponents considered conception of a child as an imprisonment of a divine spirit. Others thought that men and women ought to be
able to engage in every sort of strange act without consequence.
Later on, the Council of Trent spoke of the importance of
marriage as a holy institution. It was
for the sanctification of the spouses through their mutual love. It was not intended as a remedy for
concupiscence as some of the reformers taught.
In more recent times, marriage has come under attack from
the Birth Control League and its successor Planned Parenthood. This attack has taken place on several
fronts, mostly in the attempt to limit the reproduction of persons these groups
and persons considered undesirable, although their movement was always grounded
in the efforts of population control. Margaret
Sanger, the founder of this group had this to say: Birth control clinics, or bureaus, should be
established "in which men and women will be taught the science of
parenthood and the science of breeding…"to breed out of the race the
scourges of transmissible disease, mental defect, poverty, lawlessness, crime …
since these classes would be decreasing in number instead of breeding like weeds."
The website
blackgenocide.org reports this important
information: At a March 1925
international birth control gathering in New York City, a speaker warned of the
menace posed by the "black" and "yellow" peril. The man was
not a Nazi or Klansman; he was Dr. S. Adolphus Knopf, a member of Margaret Sanger's
American Birth Control League (ABCL), which along with other groups eventually
became known as Planned Parenthood. (Life and Education Resource,
blackgenocide.org)
The rise of the push for birth control was completely tied
up with the attempts by various racist and elitist organizations to root out of
society people they considered to be undesirable. 26 states in the United
States, because of the efforts of such groups, drafted legislation that forced
certain people to be sterilized. These
laws were upheld by the US Supreme Court in the 1920’s. In one important case, Buck
v. Bell, a case from Virginia in which the state’s eugenics officer wanted
to sterilize a young woman, Justice OW Holmes Jr. upheld the law saying that “It
is better for all the world, if instead of waiting to execute degenerate offspring
for crime or to let them starve for their imbecility, society can prevent those
who are manifestly unfit from continuing their kind…Three generations of
imbeciles are enough.”
It is not surprising that we do not learn about these things
in our history books. They are just kept
quiet because they arose out of the Progressivist Movement that is so popular
today. We would still be dealing with
these things out in the open but for one terrible group and their deeds—the
Nazis. You see, the Nazis and the people
like the Birth Control League and Planned Parenthood in the United States are
born of the same ideas. The Nazi’s
thought that they should purify the race of undesirables. It started with what were called “useless
eaters.” And it began with the doctors,
the scientists, not the politicians.
I would encourage you to visit websites like
blackgenocide.org to learn more about the birth control movement, abortion and
the devastating effects these things are having in our society.
The roots of the evil of abortion and the holocaust are
ideas that spread hatred and death like the plague. It takes many forms and the greatest threat
to any of these horrors is the truth of Jesus Christ and his Church. So-called same-sex marriage is the latest
front in the attack on the definition of marriage and the procreation and
education of children. The efforts to
silence the Church will increase all the more as these evils march forward.
