A Time to Tear Down, a Time to Build

Catholic children parading, New York, 1957

Quite literally front and center, marching down the main streets of Toronto, gay men and women will once again be flaunting their flesh and simulating their favorite behaviors, despite a city ordinance prohibiting public nudity. Wearisome are the displays of what passes for happiness in a dead world. A few people are upset about it. They are afraid that the august laws of Canada will be flouted, and that’s not a good thing for children to witness.  Sheepish people still jittery about the etiquette of legality, when you have shrugged away the laws of God, the common good, the welfare of the family, and plain human decency! You might as well toss a lace doily at a tank.

According to an article at Life Site News, the defenders of the nudity freely admit that the very purpose of the parade is to express their “wanton sexuality and hedonism.”  “In your face sexuality is the point of the damn thing,” says one promoter.  Those who don’t like it, says another, can stay home with their children and watch “priests raping children” on television.

Meanwhile, leaders of the Ontario English Catholic Teachers Association (OECTA) will be joining the festivities. They claim they wish to show solidarity with the most – here comes the inevitable word – “marginalized” group of people in the Catholic Church. For people on the margins, they sure do get around.  You cannot open a Canadian newspaper without hearing from them, day after day. You cannot watch a day of Canadian television without a gay altar-call. You cannot, apparently, attend a Catholic school in Ontario without being hectored about it.  (more...)

A Time to Tear Down, a Time to Build