The following comes from a May 21 Press-Telegram article by Greg Yee:
The Long Beach Lesbian and Gay Pride Festival got off to a rousing start Saturday with tens of thousands expected to attend the annual event and Pride Parade today.
A mass same-sex wedding ceremony, celebrating the June 2015 U.S. Supreme Court decision that gave same-sex couples across the country the right to marry, kicked off the parade at 9:45 a.m. at Ocean Boulevard and Junipero Avenue.
Vanessa Garcia, a teacher at Alliance Cindy and Bill Simon Technology Academy High School in Watts, brought students to the festival and hopes to turn it into an annual excursion.
Steven Nadolny, a member of Comunidad, the lesbian and gay ministry at St. Matthew Catholic Church in Long Beach, said his church has been participating in Long Beach Pride events for at least 20 years.
“It’s important to let lesbian and gay Catholics know that they’re welcome,” Nadolny said.
There have been some promising actions taken by Pope Francis, but progress is far from complete, he said.
“I’m sort of bi-faithful,” Nadolny said, pointing to a ring on his finger. “I got married Episcopalian (because the Catholic Church does not recognize same-sex marriage).”
Nevertheless, he is hopeful that faith will help bring people together.
[Link to Comunidad, the Lesbian and Gay Ministry at St. Matthew’s Church, Long Beach, CA.]
Homosexuality is a disorder, and homosexual acts are gravely sinful. No knowledgable and sincere Catholic can consider homosexuality to be normal nor consider homosexual acts to be acceptable under any circumstances. No society that is wise and virtuous would sanction or recognize same-sex unions. Pure evil is what homosexuality is, and America is seeing and smelling the stench of its rotten fruit and experiencing its insidiously destructive influence on the culture and in the law. That’s the plain, unalterable truth. People who support the homosexual agenda should have no place in Church ministry, but unfortunately many have become ensconced in chanceries and Catholic schools and in the priesthood and religious communities, and the…
Amen
D’accord.
At least these perverts will have the bathrooms and changing rooms at Target stores as safe zones. It is a ratchet effect, Cultural Marxism marches always forward, never a step back. The destruction of the Catholic Church is the longtime goal of Freemasons and they are winning since Vatican Council II. Stop Soros’ One World Open Society this election.
Not a peep from Archbishop Gomez. The silence allows for unofficial acceptance. Poor St Matthews parish in Long Beach. Years ago they once had a devout, faithful preist named Fr. Diamond, now deceased. There must be pro-gay priests there now.
Wow, Angela, I remember Fr. Diamond: I didn’t think anyone else did. (He died in 1982.) You are 100% on target, he was a saintly priest, like many we used to have! A man of great sermons, great love of Christ, and truly a pastor of souls Thank you for blessing me with his memory, which you also retain. He was an active, energetic priest, filled with God’s presence well into his 80’s. When you remind me of him, I know what he would say about the present diabolical disorientation and push on to the goal line. May God have mercy on the present age.
“Angela” is correct: Where is something from the slothful B. Gomez? He knows who pays his wages, unfortunately, and will not rock the boat. In fact, where are bishops, generally? The USCCB uniformly ignores homosexual sex events and the like; they thunder about economic inequality and all that, but never say much about salvation, about the Faith, about the need to avoid sin, confess, and regularly receive the sacraments. Yawn . . . but, who cares, as the catamites and their swans enjoy the sun and sand. Bi-faithful, indeed (but never fear Mr. Nadolny, many priests yearn to give you blessings and hugs and kisses.
Almost all of the Bishops in the first few centuries of the Church were martyrs, beginning with Saint Peter. To become a Bishop was nearly the same as becoming a martyr. These martyrs gave witness to the truth and inspired great faith among Christians and among pagans who became Christian. . But today it appears that Bishops are more involved with internal Church politics, not making waves, and staying out of trouble. What would Saint Peter say about this? He knew Christ perhaps more than any other mortal, except for the Blessed Virgin Mary. Yet he denied Christ three times. At the end, however, he died a Martyr. Perhaps we’re still at the denying stage….
The day before announcing his “Transgender Bathroom Mandate,” Pres. Obama appointed an 82-year-old prominent transgendered activist (from the United Church of Christ), to his faith-based advisory council! This man-turned-woman was born Catholic, became an Air Force officer, was married with three kids, later had a prominent career and was a civic activist– and served as Chairman of the Archbishop’s Council for the Archdiocese of Minneapolis-S. Paul! At age 60, he decided he really was a woman, dumped his marriage and former identity– and joined the United Church of Christ, serving as an “LGBT” activist there! There must be lots of troubled people, in our churches, today! So shocking!