These are dreadful times!
The unthinkable has become the apparent high moral ground to the
uninformed. “Granting legal status to
homosexuals is fair, compassionate and charitable.” Lies! Lies! Lies! This prevailing attitude in
reality, tells those poor misguided people that they can all just go to hell and
we don’t give a damn! I apologize for the strong emotions, but this is just as critical
as if I were trying to tell you that your house was on fire. There is a madness that has captured the
minds and hearts of the majority of our citizens of this country and the
extended Christian world. To be heard
above the crowd requires shouting.
As I outlined in past letters to you concerning the hierarchy
of authority, the government and the courts have no standing in redefining marriage. The Supreme Court of the United States can
declare from their lofty bench, from now until doomsday, the legitimacy of
same-sex unions, but that will not change the truth of it one iota. It will still simply be a one way road to
hell. The tragedy will be that with
their “official” ratification of the concept, many people will be lured down
that path of destruction.
Charity requires love.
We must truly love the other, which is, to desire that which is truly
good for the other regardless of the cost to ourselves. To be charitable to gay friends and acquaintances,
we would tell them the truth. Homosexual
activities will get you hell. That is
it! Finished! Forever! Hell is the
complete separation from God. You would
not wish it on your worst enemy. We tell
drunkard friends that they must stop drinking.
We tell stoned friends that they must stop drugs. We tell friends who steal that they must stop
stealing. We tell gays that we don’t
care if they do destroy themselves. Do
you recall the word that means the opposite of love? Indifference…that is worse than hate. Hate means that in some way, you care. Indifference means that we couldn’t care less;
go ahead, die, whatever…
Now let me show you the true cost of these sins. Imagine that you work at a company. Your job is the same as it is for one hundred
other employees in your department. At
first everything is going well because everyone is doing their share of the
work. The boss said that once a defined quantity
of product is complete, everyone can go home with full pay. Now imagine that one fellow employee starts
slacking. He knows that everyone else
will “git-er-done”. Now others notice
how he works less and still receives the same pay and time off, so they start
slowing down. How long will it take for
the few who still do their best to finish the cumulative effort? The load will increase every day until just
one worker still puts out the best and now, futile effort. The boss will reward the good worker, not
because he failed in the shared assignment, but because he loved; he did not
want to let the boss down. The others,
who sinned, will be punished, severely.
When a gay couple commit the sin of sodomy, their sin is
added to the cumulative total of sins demanding restitution. God forgives the repentant sinner. He does not forgive the obstinate one. However, even with forgiven sins, restitution
must be made. Each and every sin demands
payment from someone. This is the “work”
we are given to do. This is why we are
taught penance by the Holy Church. If we
love Christ and wish to do His work, we pray, love our neighbor (do not
encourage them to sin, among other things), and do penance. Yes, we are doing penance for our own sins
and the sins of others. We imitate
Christ. This is the whole lesson of
Calvary! This is what it means to
love. This is the pathway to
heaven. This is why we must not be indifferent
to the sins of others; they add to the work to be done, they add to the dead! Can we suffer enough to complete the
work? Of course not, but working like we
can is to love Christ.
That our nation is ready to “legally ratify” gay marriage is
a tragedy of the greatest proportion. “Father,
forgive them for they know not what they do!”
