Newsweek's Cover Story, "Our Mutual Joy" here.
Newsweek's Christmas Issue has hit the stands with a cover story named "Our Mutual Joy" to add sanctity to Christendom's Holy Season of Advent.
The meme of their theologian depicts Our Blessed Lord as gay marriage proponent and prohibiting gay couples from the Holy Sacrament of Marriage "based on sexuality is exactly the same thing as denying it based on skin color and no serious (or semiserious) person could argue that. People get married for their mutual joy"
"Jesus", the author says, "was emphatically unmarried", "preached an indifference to earthly attachments-especially family", preached a radical kind of family" and said "many important things about love and family, neither explicitly defines marriage as between one man and one women".
The Bible according to Newsweek, is a book written by polygamists with scant references and examples to codify "a traditional family" as between a man and and woman who procreate. Moving right along past the Holy Family, without reference, the article notes Abraham was an adulterer, Jacob, Solomon and the Kings of Judah were polygamists and though not expressly stated, King David and Jonathan were homosexual lovers and while there are several "peculiar throwaway lines" describing sex between men as taboo, "sex between women has never, in biblical times, raised much ire".
Merry Christmas.
Who are we to be sticklers about the details, but...um...King David's "lust" is fairly well-documented in his pining for Bathsheba, a woman. He spied on her as she bathed and his fire was so hot he was an architect of her widowhood by sending Uriah to the front lines of the war because he wanted to marry her. While not the role model for Christian courting, the story doesn't jive with homosexual attraction.
The grand scheme that resonates throughout smorgasbord of theological flaws is ~ if Christ did not enumerate a specific prohibition against a particular lust or promiscuity, so long as one doesn't divorce then it doesn 't violate the Fifth Commandment. Least you think this is your lucky day, I'm here to remind you that Christ did not enumerate prohibitions against incest, group sex, sex slavery or even pedophilia. Before you let your imagination grant licenses, indulge yourself in some prayerful time to contemplate whether the omissions indicate Christ's idea of a radical family.
The truth of the matter is, many times Christ ratified Old Testament:
“Think not that I am come to destroy the law or the prophets: I am not come to=2 0destroy, but to fulfil. For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.” Matthew 5 17
Then he said to them: O foolish, and slow of heart to believe in all things which the prophets have spoken. Luke 24:25
Without a doubt the most unnerving quote came from a Catholic Jesuit priest.
"My friend the priest James Martin says his favorite Scripture relating to the question of homosexuality is Psalm 139. A song that praises the beauty and imperfection in all of us and that glorifies God's knowledge of our most secret selves: "I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made" And then he adds if Jesus were alive today, he would reach out especially to the gays and le sbians among us for Jesus did not want people to be lonely and sad. Let the priests prayer be our own."
Perhaps the prayer has been taken out of context because it certainly is one we can all adopt without leading and delivering any souls into temptation. Inquiring minds want to know - what does Fr. Martin imply is the response to homosexual physical attraction? Prayer, fasting, meditation with the objective of closer relationship with God who can fill the emptiness of a heart which no mortal could hold a candle to? Or, does he lead his flock into temptation?
With friends like that, who needs enemies?
There should be a wide-spread calling in our religious communities to boycott Newsweek for this outrageous article. The article is bigoted, insulting and a sacrilegious publication during our month-long journey towards the Holy Family in Bethlehem, the Nativity and miraculous Birth of Christ.
Shall we network a boycott?
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