Rainbows, and Raining on Parades.

I left the towel hanging on the taps last week to go and chat with the Catholic Archbishop down in his modest Palace in Hillary's Village. It is well fortified these days as he is under siege and he was gracious and welcoming to a modest Tavern Keeper and rather poor member of his flock.

Frankly I was a little concerned. The Village has a thriving child-butchering place protected by a phalanx of laws introduced (nay, forced upon us) by the last socialist-green-feminist mob and left in place by the so-called conservative mob now running the place. That citadel of Life has fallen and I was concerned that the Archbishop had not maintained taking a stand.

You will recall that a few days later I was joined in my usual tuesday vigil by no less than four Bishops. I was pleased.

Archbishop Julian Porteous. A Fine Man.

I was also pleased with the progress of my chat with Archbishop Porteous. He is a fine chap; a man of the cloth. But as a man of the cloth he is no Soldier. He may not have the sword-skills needed to defeat the enemy so I reminded him that 'Excommunication' is a fine and devastating weapon. 

I 'expressed a view' in my usual tones that perhaps a concerted effort to 'take back the city' was needed. 

I think he got the message. He explained that he is busy developing a strategy to deal with the next great attack by the enemy. The Gay Marriage bizzo. This is good news and he has raised his Standard and shown his colours publicly - as we shall see below.  

He not only published and sent to all the Catholic schools a booklet on Marriage, but went to the local press which gave of space to opponents to rubbish it and rubbish the Church. Well, what do you  expect from the mouth-organ of Hillary's Village.

Pastoral Letter.

So he explained it to the world, very briefly, in a video. 

Now.... I think he did well for such a short video. There is a longer version at the end of this post, and you can read the Pastoral Letter  here....

http://www.sydneycatholic.org/pdf/DMM-booklet_web.pdf

But.... you may ask.... what is all the fuss about? 

Is it just Catholics who should be concerned? Just Tavern Keepers? Especially Tavern Keepers with a terrible track record in marriage.  Or should all people, even those down in the Village be really taking a long look at just what 'Same-Sex Marriage is REALLY about?

For instance, perhaps they and we can take a close look at where it is the law and has been for some time. 

What has happened to society in say, Massachusetts?

Why there? Well, because we have this handy little screed that looks at the situation there. Tasmania is bigger, admittedly, by about four times - 90.7k square kms to Massachusettes' 27.3k square kms - which makes that US State really piddling, just like Tasmania. But it's population is vasty bigger at 6.5 million compared to Tasmania's half a million. So... quarter the size with 13 times the numbers of souls. 

My friend Catherine Thirlwell dropped by with that fine little screed for us to examine. I hope the Archbishop takes note of all the examples shown. He can use them.

What same-sex "marriage' has done to Massachusetts

Most people don't know what really happens when "gay marriage" comes — 

and how its effects permeate society.

On November 18, 2003, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court announced its "Goodridge opinion", declaring that it was unconstitutional not to allow same-sex "marriage." Six months later, despite public outrage, homosexual "weddings" began to take place. And that was just the beginning . . .

 http://www.massresistance.org/docs/marriage/effects_of_ssm_2012/

The public schools

The homosexual "marriage" onslaught in public schools across the state started soon after the November 2003 court ruling.

• At my own children's high school there was a school-wide assembly to celebrate same-sex "marriage" in early December 2003. It featured an array of speakers, including teachers at the school who announced that they would be "marrying" their same-sex partners and starting families, either through adoption or artificial insemination. Literature on same-sex marriage - how it is now a normal part of society - was handed out to the students.

• Within months it was brought into the middle schools. In September 2004, an 8th-grade teacher in Brookline, Mass., told National Public Radio that the marriage ruling had opened up the door for teaching homosexuality. "In my mind, I know that, 'OK, this is legal now.' If somebody wants to challenge me, I'll say, 'Give me a break. It's legal now,'" she told NPR. She added that she now discusses gay sex with her students as explicitly as she desires. For example, she said she tells the kids that lesbians can have vaginal intercourse using sex toys.

Do not be fooled. There is great pressure being made, 'Officially'

• By the following year it was in elementary school curricula - with hostility toward parents who disagreed. Kindergartners in Lexington, Mass. were given copies of a picture book, Who's in a Family?, telling them that same-sex couples are just another kind of family, just like their own parents. When David Parker - parent of a kindergartner - calmly refused to leave a school meeting unless officials agreed to notify him when discussing homosexuality or transgenderism with his son, the school had him arrested and jailed overnight.

• The next year, second graders at the same school were read a book ,King & King, about two men who fall in love and marry each other, ending with a picture of them kissing. When parents Robb and Robin Wirthlin complained, they were told that the school had no obligation to notify them or allow them to opt their child out.

• In 2007 a federal judge ruled that because of "gay marriage" in Massachusetts, parents have no rights regarding the teaching of homosexual relationships in schools. The previous year the Parkers and Wirthlins had filed a federal civil rights lawsuit to force the schools to notify parents and allow them to opt out their elementary-school children when homosexual-related subjects were taught. The federal judge dismissed the case. The appeals judges later upheld the first judge's ruling that because same-sex marriage is legal in Massachusetts, the school actually had a duty to normalize homosexual relationships to children; and schools have no obligation to notify parents or let them opt out their children. Acceptance of homosexuality had become a matter of good citizenship! 

Think about that: Because same-sex marriage is "legal," federal judges have ruled that the schools now have a duty to portray homosexual relationships as normal to children, despite what parents think or believe!

Rainbows are caused by rain, doncha know.

• The judges also allowed the school to overrule the Massachusetts parental notification law on this issue, with the claim that homosexuality or same-sex marriages are not "human sexuality issues" (to which the law refers).

• School libraries have also radically changed. School libraries across the state, from elementary school to high school, now have expanding shelves of books to normalize homosexual behavior and "lifestyle" in the minds of kids, some of them quite explicit and even pornographic. Parents' complaints are ignored or met with hostility.

• A large, slick hardcover book celebrating Massachusetts homosexual marriages began to appear in many school libraries across the state. Titled Courting Equality, it was supplied to schools by a major homosexual activist organization. Its apparent purpose was to teach kids that "gay marriage" was a great civil rights victory.

Filth will display itself. Will YOU take note? It's target is the Church.

• It has become commonplace in Massachusetts schools for teachers to display photos of their same-sex "spouses" and occasionally bring their "spouses" to school functions. At one point, both high schools in my own town had principals who were "married" to their same-sex partners who came to school and were introduced to the students.

• "Gay days" in schools are considered necessary to fight "intolerance" against same-sex relationships. Hundreds of high schools and even middle schools across the state now hold "gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender days." In my own town, a school committee member announced that combating "homophobia" was now a top priority. The schools not only "celebrate" homosexual marriage, but have moved beyond to promote other behaviors such as cross-dressing and transsexuality.

• As a result, many more children in Massachusetts appear to be self-identifying as "gay." According to the Massachusetts Youth Risk Behavior Survey, given to students in high schools across the state, between 2005 and 2009 both the percentage of kids "identifying as gay" and who had same-sex contact rose by approximately 50%. Although this bi-annual survey is unscientific and largely unreliable, it still shows a disturbing trend among those students who chose to answer the questions in this way. (At a minimum, it implies that these answers are being encouraged.)

Personal and Church Abuse.

• Once homosexuality is normalized, all boundaries begin to come down. The schools have already moved on to normalizing transgenderism (including cross-dressing and sex changes). The state-funded Commission on Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Youth, which goes into schools with homosexual and transgender programs and activities for children, includes prominent activists who are transsexuals.

• In 2006 a cross-dressing man undergoing a sex-change operation was brought into a third-grade class in Newton to teach the children that there are now "different kinds of families." School officials told a mother that her complaints to the principal were considered "inappropriate behavior"! She ended up removing her child from the school.

Public health

• The Commissioner of the Mass. Dept. of Public Health, who is "married" to another man, told a crowd of kids at the state-sponsored Youth Pride event in 2007 that it's "wonderful being gay" and he wants to make sure there's enough HIV testing available for all of them.

• The STD test required to obtain a marriage license was eliminated five months after same-sex "marriages" began in Massachusetts, by a bill quietly signed by Gov. Mitt Romney. This was despite an increase in syphilis cases and other STDs in homosexual men in Massachusetts at the time (according to the Mass. Dept. of Public Health).

• In recent years state funding for HIV/AIDS programs has gone up considerably in Massachusetts, along with the proportion of homosexual-related cases. According to the Massachusetts Dept. of Public Health, even though the total number of new HIV/AIDS diagnoses has declined, the proportion caused by male homosexual behavior rose by over 30% from 2000-2009. Thus, for the last several years the state has budgeted $30-$35 million per year for these programs. This dwarfs spending on any other viral disease that we are aware of.

• A hideously obscene booklet on "gay" practices created by health officials was given out in a high school. Citing "the right to marry" as one of the "important challenges" in a place where "it's a great time to be gay," the Mass. Dept. of Public Health helped the AIDS Action Committee produce The Little Black Book: Queer in the 21st Century.It was given to teens at Brookline High School on April 30, 2005. Among other things, it gives "tips" to boys on how to perform oral sex on other males, masturbate other males, and how to "safely" have someone urinate on you for sexual pleasure. It even included a directory of bars in Boston where young men meet for anonymous sex.

Good Lord. He mentioned the Bible !! Let us just disregard his defending the nation.

Hospitals

• Because of the purported necessity to cater to "LGBT health" issues, nearly every major Boston hospital has become an active supporter of the radical homosexual movement. This includes marching in the "Gay Pride" parades, holding homosexual events, and putting on numerous"gay health"-related seminars. This is one of the most disturbing things that's happened since "gay marriage" became "legal."

• A major Boston hospital threatened to fire a physician when he objected to its promotion of homosexual behavior. In 2011 a prominent physician at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston -- a large Harvard-affiliated hospital -- objected to the hospital being involved with "Gay Pride" activities. He also pointed out to his superiors the medical health risks of homosexuality, and said that he and others at the hospital considered homosexual acts to be unnatural and immoral. The hospital then threatened to fire him, telling him that same-sex marriage is "legal" and that his comments constituted "harassment and discrimination." After a "hearing" he was allowed to keep his job, but was told to apologize and to keep his opinions on these matters to himself.

• In 2012 the Boston Medical Center purchased a prominent full-color ad (full page, inside cover) in the Boston Gay Pride guide book. The content? The entire ad promoted the hospital's STD and AIDS clinics for the "pride" participants - particularly its screening services for gonorrhea, chlamydia, syphilis, hepatitis, and HIV.

Domestic violence

• Every year more state money goes to deal with the high incidence of homosexual domestic violence. Since "gay marriage" began, Massachusetts has one of the highest proportions of homosexuals living as couples in the country. Given the extremely dysfunctional nature of homosexual relationships, the Massachusetts Legislature has felt the need to spend more and more money to deal with that problem. "Gay domestic violence programs" have also become a major lobbying push in the State House by the homosexual groupMassEquality. This year it comprises a considerable portion of a $5.5 million state budget item (according to MassEquality). This is up from $100,000 budgeted in 2007.

Blasphemy tolerated and displayed. NOW do you get it?

• "Gay domestic partner violence" literature (funded by the state) is now distributed at virtually every public homosexual event - including to children at "Youth Pride" events, GLSEN conferences, "gay straight alliance" high school clubs - and especially at the various events and parades during "Gay Pride" week.

• It has become such a problem that a public candlelight vigil in downtown Boston is held every year by a coalition of Massachusetts homosexual groups "to remember victims of recent LGBT intimate partner violence, and to raise awareness of this important community issue."

Business and employment

• All insurance in Massachusetts must now recognize same-sex "married" couples in their coverage. This includes auto insurance, health insurance, life insurance, etc.

• Businesses must recognize same-sex "married" couples in all their benefits, activities, etc., regarding both employees and customers.

• People can now get fired from their jobs for expressing religious objections to same-sex "marriage." In 2009, a deputy manager at a Brookstone store in Boston was fired from his job for mentioning his belief to another manager who had kept bringing up the subject with him that day. Brookstone's letter of termination (quoted on local TV news) said his comment was "inappropriate" because "in the State of Massachusetts, same-sex marriage is legal."

• The wedding industry is required to serve the homosexual community if requested. Wedding photographers, halls, caterers, etc., must accept same-sex marriage events or be held liable for discrimination.

• Businesses are often "tested" for tolerance by homosexual activists. Groups of homosexual activists go into restaurants or bars and publicly kiss and fondle each other to test whether the establishment demonstrates sufficient "equality" - now that homosexual marriage is "legal." Then they report "tolerance violators" to authorities, and businesses can be fined and punished. In fact, more and more overt displays of homosexual affection are seen in public places across the state to reinforce "marriage equality."

Legal profession and judicial system

• The Massachusetts Bar Exam now tests lawyers on their knowledge of same-sex marriage "law." In 2007, a Boston man failed the Massachusetts bar exam because he refused to answer a question about homosexual marriage.

• In many firms, lawyers in Massachusetts practicing family law must now attend seminars on homosexual "marriage." Issues regarding homosexual "families" are now firmly entrenched in the Massachusetts legal system. In addition, there are now several homosexual judges overseeing the Massachusetts family courts.

• In 2011 the Governor appointed Barbara Lenk, a "married" lesbian activist, to be a state Supreme Court Justice. She has said that the interpretation of law "evolves and develops" because "minority groups [e.g., homosexuals] see certain things differently based on their own experiences."

Adoption and birth certificates

• In the year after the "gay marriage" ruling, the state's adoption and foster care workers went through a massive indoctrination on "LGBT youth awareness." This included employees and managers at the Mass. Dept. of Social Services. These sessions were run by the radicalNational Gay and Lesbian Task Force (which once awarded a "Leather Leadership Award" to the owner of a pornographic video company). The emphasis was that those working with children must be trained that homosexuality (and transgenderism) are normal. At one session, the trainer announced that the new motto is, "To tolerate is an assault; you have to accept" this behavior.

It is all anti-Church. Anti-Truth.

• Homosexual "married" couples can now demand to be allowed to adopt children - through any agency. In 2006 Catholic Charities decided to abandon handling adoptions rather submit to regulations requiring them to allow homosexuals to adopt the children in their care.

• Adoption agencies have said that 40% of their adoptions are to homosexual couples. Anecdotal reports also indicate that many adoption agencies now favor homosexuals over normal couples.

• In 2006 the Massachusetts Department of Social Services (DSS) honored two men "married" to each other as their "Parents of the Year." The men had adopted a baby through DSS (against the wishes of the baby's birth parents). According to news reports, the day after that adoption was final, DSS approached the men about adopting a second child.

• The state-funded Massachusetts Adoption Resource Exchange (MARE) has been pushing "GLBT" family formation and holds "adoption parties" where homosexual couples have been encouraged to attend (along with others) and see "available" children in person. MARE places prominent ads in GLBT publications.

• Birth certificates in Massachusetts have been changed from "mother" and "father" to "mother/parent" and "father/parent." Two men or two women can now be listed as the "parents" on birth certificates! Homosexuals who adopt can revise children's' existing birth certificates.

• A court ruled in 2012 that if a child is "born of a same-sex marriage," there is no need for adoption by a non-biological parent. Thus, they would both be the listed as the "parents" on the child's birth certificate, without any formal proceedings necessary. (The other biological parent is not noted on the official birth certificate.)

Government mandates

• Marriage licenses and certificates in Massachusetts now have "Party A" and "Party B" instead of "husband" and "wife." Imagine having a marriage license like that.

• In 2004, Governor Mitt Romney ordered Justices of the Peace to perform homosexual marriages when requested or be fired. Several Justices of the Peace immediately decided to resign. That order still stands. Also Town Clerks were forced by the Governor's office to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples.

• In 2008 Massachusetts changed the state Medicare laws to include homosexual "married" couples in the coverage.

The public square

• Since gay "marriage" began, public "Gay Pride" events have become more prominent in the public square. There are more politicians and corporations participating, and even police organizations take part. And the envelope gets pushed further and further. For example: the annual profane "Dyke March" through downtown Boston, and the 2008 "transgender" parade in Northampton that included bare-chested women who have had their breasts surgically removed (so they could "become" men). Governor Patrick even marched with his 17-year-old "out lesbian" daughter in the 2008 Boston Pride event, right behind a sadomasochist "leather" group brandishing a black and blue flag, lashes and chains!

Soon no-one will be allowed to speak the Truth.
Naked Emperors will be outside your door.

Churches being harassed

Churches and religious people have been demonized, harassed and threatened - with no punishment for the perpetrators. Since the "gay marriage" ruling, those who publicly disagree with "gay marriage" or the normalcy of homosexuality - or hold events promoting traditional beliefs - are targets of militant retribution by homosexual activists. Police and public officials have shown no interest in stopping this. We are not aware of a single homosexual activist arrested (or charged with any "hate crime") for disrupting a religious event or threatening and harassing people at a church. For example:

• In 2012 someone threatened to burn down a Catholic Church in Acushnet which posted the words "Two men are friends, not spouses" on its outdoor sign. The church immediately received a flood of profane phone calls. At least one person threatened to burn down the church. An activist nailed a sign to church's fence saying, "Spread love not hate." Activists staged a protest outside of the Sunday Mass to intimidate parishioners with a sign saying, "It is legal for two men or women to be spouses." Neither the police nor the District Attorney pursued the threats as a hate crime or other offense.

• In 2010 a Catholic elementary school balked at letting a lesbian couple enroll their son. As a result, the school was excoriated in the media and even by the local liberal state representative as "discriminatory." The privately-run Catholic Schools Foundation then threatened to withhold funding to the school unless it relented. The Archdiocese eventually backed down and the school reversed its policy.

• In 2009 angry homosexual activists terrorized the Park Street Church in Boston while it was holding an ex-gay religious training session inside. They demonstrated next to the doors and windows with signs, screaming homosexual slogans. One of them held a bullhorn against the window outside the meeting, bellowing at the participants inside. Police did nothing to stop them, even though they were standing inside the historic cemetery adjacent to the church.

• In 2006 dozens of screaming homosexual activists drowned out the speakers at an outdoor pro-marriage rally in Worcester organized by Catholic Vote, yelling "Bigots" and disgusting chants. Police did not stop them, even though the rally had a permit. When one of the rioters rushed the stage and started shouting, a rally organizer tried to lead her to the side. She subsequently sued that organizer for assault! He went through a four-day trial and was acquitted by a jury. But no charges were filed against any of the rioters.

• In 2006 a group of homosexual activists with signs taunted and screamed at people entering and leaving the Tremont Temple Baptist Church in downtown Boston, which was holding a nationally televised pro-marriage event inside.

• In 2005 hundreds of homosexual activists terrorized the Tremont Temple Baptist Church with makeshift coffins, screaming obscenities through loudspeakers as the national pro-family group Focus on the Family held a religious conference inside. The crowd was so threatening that attendees could not leave the church for the lunch break. The Boston riot police stood in front of the church doors, but did nothing to disperse the protesters who were also completely blocking the street.

The media

• The Boston media regularly features articles and news stories using homosexual "married" couples where regular married couples would normally be used. It's "equal," they insist, so there must be no difference in how marriage is portrayed. Also, the newspaper advice columns now deal with homosexual "marriage" issues - and how to properly accept it.

• A number of news reporters and TV anchors are "out" homosexuals (at least one openly "married") who march in the "Gay Pride" parades and publicly participate in other homosexual events.

Politics

• A climate of fear has kept politicians at all levels from disagreeing with or criticizing same-sex marriage since it became "legal." Public officials are afraid of being accused of wanting to "take away rights." Those who support traditional marriage rarely discuss it publicly. And this fear has expanded to suppress any meaningful debate on all homosexual related issues. Additionally, it has brought a feeling of intimidation among pro-family people across the state.

• The Massachusetts Republican establishment has become arguably the most "pro-gay marriage" GOP in America. The state GOP House and Senate leaders now both publicly support "gay marriage," as did the recent Mass. GOP candidates for Governor and Lt. Governor. GOP candidates for office are told not even to discuss it.

• In April 2009, the Chairman of the Mass. Republican Party told a homosexual newspaper that the GOP would no longer oppose "gay marriage." Then Chairman Jennifer Nassour, interviewed on the front page of Bay Windows, assured the gay community that the state GOP would "steer clear of social" issues such as "opposition to same-sex marriage and abortion." The newly elected chairman, Bob Maginn, does not talk about the issue.

• Every Massachusetts state-wide elected official and member of Congress (but one) now publicly supports "gay marriage." The one (apparent) holdout, Republican US Senator Scott Brown, strenuously avoids the issue, saying that it's "settled law" and not worth fighting over.

Rule of law

• Same-sex "marriage" came to Massachusetts through a radical court's narrow ruling. Because of that, there is an often depressing sense of helplessness that pervades this issue. The marriage statute was never changed, and it has been convincingly argued that the whole process was in violation of the state constitution. The Governor simply went along. And the Legislature acted to block popular votes on two separate constitutional amendments protecting marriage, after sufficient signatures had been gathered for each. The rule of law seems further lost with every new outrage imposed on the people.

• Even the Massachusetts Law Library (online) shows no law legalizing same-sex marriage, only a court opinion. It is a dangerous precedent to allow such sweeping judicial activism to stand as law, enabling everything that has followed from it. It should serve as a warning to states across the country.

In conclusion

Same-sex "marriage" hangs over society, hammering citizens with the force of law. 

Once it gets a foothold, society becomes more oppressive. 

Unfortunately, it was imposed on the people of Massachusetts through a combination of radical, arrogant judges and pitifully cowardly politicians. The homosexual movement has used that combination to its continued advantage around the country.

It's pretty clear that this radical movement is obsessed with marriage not because large numbers of homosexuals actually want to marry each other. A small percentage actually "marry." (In fact, over the last several months, theSunday Boston Globe's marriage section hasn't had any photos of homosexual marriages; at first it was full of them.) Research shows that homosexuals' relationships are fundamentally dysfunctional on many levels, and real "marriage" as we know it isn't something they can achieve, or even truly desire.

The push for "gay marriage" is really is about putting the legal stamp of approval on homosexuality and forcing its acceptance on (otherwise unwilling) citizens and our social, political, and commercial institutions.

To the rest of America: You've been forewarned.

Tasmania, Australia and the rest of the Anglophile world, you have been warned too. There is a lot of food for thought there and many weapons that can be brought to bear.

I hope the good Archbishop of Hobart can find use for all of it.

Now, for those that wish to hear the Archbishop's longer discussion....

Pax.... and keep your hand on your sword. 

Can't Keep a Good Man Down

There's good and good of course and the fields go to the horizon and beyond.

The Tavern has pints on the bar for whenever Art Nalls cares to drop his undercarriage and lower his Harrier into the yard.

Gather ye around, young Knights and Squires. Hear an old one. I shall let him tell his tale.

I am an old man. This fellow is too but gives the lie to idleness and shows how far 'Spirit' can take you.

Waaaaay over the horizon.

Now.... in keeping, let us see a few more.

It ain't just chaps of course. Let's look at Svetlana Kapanina. She doesn't have a Harrier but that does not stop her doing things equally as crowd-pleasing. Frankly, this woman could fly a bucket and make it exciting.

And.... she's better looking than Art, too.

And this is just about an old plane. You can't keep these down either, except down to ground level.

And just to show we are tuely International, we will even welcome the French. They have some really bad lads (in the best possible tradition of course).

Pax

The Tactical Weapon

So many times do people come into the Tavern and sound off about the decline of our society. And I speak, as they do, predominantly about our Anglophile civilisation. It is the current (or was) expression of centuries of slow and painful progress up the moral dimension, and argueably the best that humanity has managed to date.

It has brought Law, Institutions of fairness and reason, poverty-reduction on a vast scale, freedom of thought and an honouring of Human Beings. Humanity has all of this in the 'Western' civil world, born in Europe, spread by  - dare I say it - Englishness in all its varieties, and underpinned by Christianity.  

Christianity provided the Moral Core.

It gave us reason and science. It gave us a rationale for sacrifice and development. It made clear that we are a fallen people that has a chance of Redemption if only we work toward implementing the Will of God.  Man has plenty enough Freedom of growth within that Will. And we did grow.

That Christianity had a singular Catholic basis for 1500 years before it's message and guidance was diluted and challenged by first a few and then thousands of ego-driven sects of a vaguely Christian nature. Some 'churches' have been diluted to such an extent that they barely have a christian message at all.

The introduction of 'individual interpretation' - or rather interpretations of one man here and another there, foisted upon people with threats, was a tactical weapon to destroy Catholicism. Insidious, slow, debilitating, like a wasting illness.

Before even that assault The Catholic West had seen off the viciousness of a diabolical, militaristic Islam which left a wake of destruction and millions of dead in its path and from which it took 500 years to recover.  Islam was and is a major tactical weapon of Satan. 

But it is the civil philosophies of the 20C, more tactical weapons, with their totalitarian hatred of Christianity that has taken hold today.   Communism has filtered itself into our civil structures despite being 'politically' and militarily defeated in the main.

The drifting away of otherwise fine people into false churches has been going on apace for the past 400 years and has reached a ridiculous dilution level.  So diluted that Materialism has taken root like a weed, choking the plants, the flowers and the fruits in the garden. The materialism of communism (and indeed Nazism judging by the huge 'evangelical' church meetings with their light shows and rahrahs), has driven many 'christians' into the Abyss of greed and envy and personal aggrandizment.

It has rendered us weak. Islam is resurging and taking our eye off the main ball. While a vicious assault again is coming from Islam we have a white-ant effort happening within the walls of Christendom and threatening the Gates.

Hell has gates too and they are open. 

All the set backs and challenges our western civilisation has faced have been directed specifically against the Souls of men. The hatred of Christianity begs the question.

We 'civilised' people are quickly abandoning that moral basis today. We are letting the demonic in.

The latest failure to defend Morality just in the past weeks has been the abandonment of Marriage as a Sacremental Union of a Man and a Woman in the USA. Marriage in america has become not just a Farce but a destroyer of the Constitution. 


A Match has been put to the parchment. That 'One Nation under God' gave up a major battle on Abortion a long time ago in the '70's which has seen nearly 60 Million souls killed in the womb. It destroys life on an Industrial scale, pretending it is about 'choice', and now destroys Marital Union - by pretending to extend it to same-sex, un-natural couplings.

Only the Catholics retain the Sacremental.

Catholics MUST NOT let it go.

The re-definition of 'Marriage' to include state-sactioned buggery has to be fought. Let them keep it while Catholics revert to 'proper' Marriage...

HOLY MATRIMONY

Man, Woman & God.

But can the moral decline really cause damage to the rest of society as some claim?  Is it about extending 'rights' to marry? 

And what Tactical weapon can we bring to bear to fight with?

Lea Singh was in the Canadian Bar to answer the first two questions and Michael Voris the second in the US Room. 

So, is it really about Christianity, or is it about 'freedom', tolerance' and 'inclusiveness'? Can a strong, civilised nation deteriorate quickly, like falling off a cliff, rather than sliding down a slippery slope - which is an analogy oft heard in the Tavern? 

Same-sex “Marriage” and the Persecution of Christians in Canada

Canada legalized same-sex “marriage” in 2005, the fourth country in the world to do so. During the rushed public debate that preceded legalization, the Christian and traditional understanding of marriage as the union of a man and a woman had strong support. Polls showed a deep split among Canadians, and the majority (52 percent) were actually against legalization at the time that it occurred.

 http://www.crisismagazine.com/2015/same-sex-marriage-and-the-persecution-of-christians-in-canada

Opponents of same-sex “marriage” were given all kinds of assurances. The preamble to the Civil Marriage Act states that “everyone has the freedom of conscience and religion,” “nothing in this Act affects the guarantee of freedom of conscience and religion and, in particular, the freedom of members of religious groups to hold and declare their religious beliefs,” and “it is not against the public interest to hold and publicly express diverse views on marriage.”

But how quickly things change. Since the watershed moment of legalization, Canadian social norms have shifted rapidly, and what was once considered fringe or debateable has become the new normal.

Today, different opinions on “gender identity” and same-sex “marriage” are no longer tolerated. Our society is sweeping away respect for religious faiths that do not accept and celebrate same-sex “marriage,” and the Civil Marriage Act’s assurances seem merely farcical. 

It is not premature to speak of open discrimination against Christians in Canada.

Christian Lawyers Need Not Apply

The Canadian Charter of Right and Freedoms declares that Canadians have a fundamental “freedom of conscience and religion” and “freedom of thought, belief, opinion and expression.” But constitutional guarantees are at the mercy of lawyers, and Canadian lawyers have emerged as among the most fiercely intolerant of anyone, including their own colleagues, who fails to support same-sex “marriage.”

This extreme intolerance became evident last year when Trinity Western University, the largest privately-funded Evangelical Christian university in Canada, set out to establish a law school. TWU’s plans were approved by British Columbia’s Ministry of Education, which seemed like the final green light. But in a truly unprecedented move, the law societies of three provinces, including Ontario, voted to deny accreditation to the law school.

The law societies gave only one reason, and it had nothing to do with sufficiency of the legal training of TWU graduates.  

The sole sticking point was the fact that TWU has a campus covenant which, among other things, asks students to abstain from same-sex (and heterosexual) sexual relationships outside of marriage, and states that marriage is reserved for man and woman.

The benchers who sit on provincial law societies are some of the most powerful lawyers in the country. In debating the TWU covenant, many of these elite lawyers made comparisons between the opposition to same-sex “marriage” and racism. 

For instance, one Ontario bencher said: “we can draw a useful analogy between public attitudes towards interracial dating and interracial marriage in 1985 and discrimination based on sexual orientation in 2014.” In British Columbia, one bencher put it this way: “there is no way to avoid asking … what this Law Society would do if the community covenant related to interracial marriage, even if that precept was based on religion as it was in the case of the Bob Jones University.“

The implication could not be more clear: Christians who believe in traditional marriage are the modern-day equivalent of racists, and warrant identical exclusion. Christian lawyers across Canada are now repeating the words of prominent Ontario lawyer Albertos Polizogopoulos: “I did not attend TWU, but I share its biblical view of marriage…. Do my religious beliefs, particularly about marriage, somehow disqualify me from ably practicing law? That is the inevitable conclusion and consequence if we endorse barring TWU law graduates from practicing law.”

Not only are Christian lawyers being pushed out by their colleagues, but they are also experiencing ostracism from their clients. As the debate over TWU heated in the media, some of Canada’s most powerful corporations created Legal Leaders for Diversity (LLD), a group that now includes over 70 of Canada’s largest corporations. Through LLD, these companies aim to alter the legal landscape by choosing to do business only with pro-gay law firms. 

Never before has there been a concerted effort to essentially starve Christian law firms out of business.

Catholics Seen as Opposed to Human Rights

The view that Christians are no longer fit for certain jobs is spreading out beyond the legal profession. In March, Toronto’s city council voted to remove the nomination of a Catholic school trustee to the city’s Board of Health. The trustee had not shown any wrongdoing or incompetence, and city councillors didn’t even try to argue this. 

Their stated concern was that the trustee had a history of voting in line with Catholic teaching.

In particular, some councillors were concerned that the trustee had consistently opposed gay-straight alliances in schools (a 2012 Ontario law states that these activist gay groups must be permitted inside all publicly-funded schools, including Catholic ones).

As in the case of TWU, councillors used an analogy to racism. The chair of the Board of Health asked: “Would we allow that as a society if it was black-white alliances? That’s what human rights are about….” Another councillor said: “These are actually human rights issues, the right for gays and lesbians to lead an equal life in the city of Toronto.”

The writing is on the wall. 

A mere decade after same-sex “marriage” was legalized in Canada, citizens who do not support same-sex “marriage” are outside the bounds of social acceptability. It is now considered in the public interest to deny them career opportunities and advancement.

Children as the Next Frontier of Gender Diversity

This coming September, all publicly funded schools in the province of Ontario, whether Catholic or secular, must begin to teach an aggressive new sexual education curriculum which is categorically opposed to Catholic teaching on sexuality and the human person.

Starting in grade three, the curriculum introduces children to the idea that gender is fluid, and that little boys can decide to be girls, or vice versa. The message is that transgender desires are just as perfectly normal as homosexual leanings.

This message is already being propagated by our media. For instance, Canadian public radio recently covered the case of a 12-year-old boy who chose to “come out” as a girl one year earlier. This “heartwarming” story includes details such as the fact that the boy’s puberty has now been chemically stopped, and he may be put through female puberty instead.

Young Canadian children have been “coming out” as transgender, and are being encouraged by officials in schools and government, and by the media. Currently, a Catholic school in Alberta is being pressured to allow a 7-year-old transgender “girl” to use the girls’ bathroom. Last year, the province of Alberta issued a new birth certificate to a 12-year-old “boy” who was born a girl.

Campaign Life Coalition, Canada’s largest pro-life organization, accurately expresses the dilemma that Ontario’s Catholic schools are facing:

"It is unclear how Catholic schools can implement teaching on birth control, abortion, the idea that being male or female is a social construct, gender expression, and the 6-gender theory, even if retrofitted with a “Catholic lens.” Catholic moral teaching forbids abortion and the use of artificial contraception as grave evils. The theory of gender identity, gender expression and the idea that there are more genders than just male and female directly contradict Christian anthropology of the human person".

The Dawn of a New Dictatorship?

Canada continues to pioneer through a vast social experiment. The legalization of same-sex “marriage” represented the victory in our laws and public morals of a view of the human person and human sexuality that is seriously incompatible with the Gospel. This is turning out to be a zero-sum situation, and Christians are starting to be seen as public enemies.

Last May at the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast in Washington, D.C., Princeton professor Robert George spoke precisely of these changes in our Western culture, and of the coming persecution of Catholics and other like-minded Christians. Here in Canada, his predictions are already coming to pass:

"The days of socially acceptable Christianity are over. The days of comfortable Catholicism are past…. Powerful forces and currents in our society press us to be ashamed of the Gospel … ashamed of our faith’s teachings on marriage as the conjugal union of husband and wife. These forces insist that the Church’s teachings are out of date, retrograde, insensitive, uncompassionate, illiberal, bigoted, even hateful … these same forces say you are a homophobe, a bigot, someone who doesn’t believe in equality. You even represent a threat to people’s safety. You ought to be ashamed!"

"…One may in consequence of one’s public witness be discriminated against and denied educational opportunities and the prestigious credentials they may offer; one may lose valuable opportunities for employment and professional advancement; one may be excluded from worldly recognition and honors of various sorts; one’s witness may even cost one treasured friendships…. Yes, there are costs of discipleship—heavy costs."

Trinity Western University is now fighting expensive court battles in three provinces, and will likely wind up at the Supreme Court. The Toronto Catholic school trustee is considering an appeal to a human rights tribunal. Thousands of parents have protested against the new sexual education curriculum in Ontario, pulling 15,000 kids out of school to demonstrate their outrage.

But Ontario’s premier, who is herself a lesbian in a same-sex “marriage,” has announced her resolve to introduce the curriculum despite the protests. 

The tsunami of gender identity politics is only gathering speed, bringing ever more pressure upon those who dare stand in its way.

Lea Z. Singh is a lawyer, writer and a stay-at-home mom to three young children. She writes from Ottawa, Canada and blogs at Culture Witness.

So, Canada, that Nation of once-pleasant people is decending rapidly, ostracising Catholics in particular and Christians in general, ruining their careers and declaring them, 'enemies'.

Now just what sort of philosophy would do that ? It is not 'anti-religious' It has not suggested that Islamists who demand conversion or beheading be so ostracised. It is Anti-Catholic. Anti-Christian, who are seen by the diabolical still as 'catholic by association' with Christ.

This is not simply 'social.

So if it is a matter of 'Soul', of Humankind's Spirit, about the Will of God as opposed to the will of men (and women of course), what is the main target, Catholics, doing about it?

As it has been made clear many times in this Tavern on the road, the Catholic Church is sadly failing to fight. 

Indeed, many of its leaders have ran away from the fight and collaborated with the satanic enemy. We have largely given up on expecting the other 'christian' churches to rejoin. Some have some very sound people but many have not. 

Many Catholics are glorified-unto-themselves 'zozcial juztitz warriors' in the Church of Nice. Many Bishops and Archbishops and even Cardinals are not simply 'suspect' but clearly on the wrong side. 

But those who remain Faithful.... 

what can they do?

Well, for a start they can speak out instead of hiding in their Cathedrals and pretending to be heads of department of an NGO.

And they have a Tactical Weapon. A Big one.

Excommunication.

There has been talk here before some time ago when I 'suggested' that Nancy Pelosi and Joe Biden should be condemned to Hell. 

For that is what Excommunication is.

GO TO HELL. Begone.

And that is the message Michael Voris brings. 

We must reverse the 'mantra' that the 'personal is the political', and make the political, personal. For it is men and women, Political men and women we have to take on, just as a soldier in the field is not there to fight an ideology but to kill the enemy infront of him.

Identify the enemy with the weapon pointed at you, and take him out.

We are at War and the enemy is inside the gates. We MUST not abandon the gates. They must prevail. They WILL prevail and we must ensure it. The enemy must be rooted out. They must be cast out and the gates closed against them. Let God excercise His mercy as His Will be done. We have our orders and our 'sound' Faithful Churchmen have their Excommunication weapon and their Duty.

Think about that.

Pax.

Peace has to be fought for. 

Plans go awry

A gentleman sang in the Tavern.

For my daughter.

And for many other men's daughters and sons too.

Time slips by and the stuff of life is lost.  It was not what we planned.

Today I weep into my beer and bear my Cross.

Pax.

Love while you can.