Dave Rubin, the popular pundit for the conservative network BlazeTV, recently announced that he and his “husband,” David Janet, were using surrogacy to obtain two children. When I saw that even some faithful Christians were celebrating this news, I knew it was time for a gut check. Let’s bring faith and reason to the table and look at how many deadly sins are committed when “married” homosexual men rent the wombs of surrogates to procure babies for themselves.
- Active homosexuality. Homosexual acts are “acts of grave depravity” which contradict the natural law and can never be approved (CCC 2357).
- “Gay marriage.” The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith directs that “clear and emphatic opposition [to same-sex ‘marriage’] is a duty” and that laws permitting it are “gravely unjust.”
- Surrogacy. The CDF teaches that surrogacy “represents an objective failure to meet the obligations of maternal love, of conjugal fidelity and of responsible motherhood; it offends the dignity and the right of the child to be conceived…and brought up by his own parents; it sets up, to the detriment of families, a division between the physical, psychological and moral elements which constitute those families.”
- Masturbation/self-abuse. “The deliberate use of the sexual faculty, for whatever reason, outside of marriage is essentially contrary to its purpose” (CCC 2352).
- Pornography. In fertility clinics, masturbation and the collection of sperm is routinely facilitated by the use of pornographic videos and images in the “collection room.” So, in this step of the process, the sin of masturbation is aided by a massive and lucrative porn industry that exploits the women (and men) on screen in the most depraved, destructive ways.
- Third parties directly involved in a child’s conception. As a rule of thumb, according to the U.S. bishops: “Procedures which add a ‘third party’ into the act of conception, or which substitute a laboratory procedure for intercourse, are not acceptable.”
- Willful killing of human embryos. With surrogacy and IVF, it is routine to create “excess” embryos to get the desired sex, cull for disease/defect, and prepare for multiple IVF attempts if previous cycles fail. Countless human embryos (persons) are suspended in deep freeze, used as research material, and/or willfully destroyed; this is commonplace, and built into the industry’s business plan. In a discussion of bioethics, IVF, and embryo rights, the Church is clear: “The human being is to be respected and treated as a person from the moment of conception; and therefore from that same moment his rights as a person must be recognized, among which in the first place is the inviolable right of every innocent human being to life.”
- The commodification of children. We have bought the lie that children are a “right” for the adults who desire them. This is a deep deception, as only the children have rights in this area, and not the adults: “A child is not something owed to one, but is a gift. The ‘supreme gift of marriage’ is a human person. A child may not be considered a piece of property, an idea to which an alleged ‘right to a child’ would lead. In this area, only the child possesses genuine rights: the right ‘to be the fruit of the specific act of the conjugal love of his parents,’ and ‘the right to be respected as a person from the moment of his conception’”(CCC 2378).
- Intentionally denying a child his mother. The child born of surrogacy for a gay male couple is motherless by design. This is in no way similar to a child being born into tragedy where his mother has died or is unable to care for him. Rather, this is about seemingly rational adults making the conscious decision, well before the child exists, to manufacture a child who will never have a mother. By nature, God gave each of us a mother, and each of us has a right to our mother. We used to weep for a motherless child (and lament a fatherless one); but today, we approve it with a smile and even a hearty, public congratulations. Which brings us to…
- 10.The celebration of mortal sin is itself a mortal sin. Catholics: you know that the nine sins above are grave sins, and if you didn’t know it a few minutes ago, you know now. We are all culpable for what we know (and for our willful ignorance). If we knowingly celebrate deadly sin, then that celebration is itself mortally sinful.
Though I’ve enumerated ten deadly sins committed when homosexual male couples use surrogates to get babies, you have likely realized that the majority of those sins are also committed by heterosexual couples procuring children in the same immoral ways. So many deadly sins celebrated, and yet one mortal sin alone can deprive us of Heaven forever. We should tremble, not rejoice, at such baby announcements! Why do so many professed Christians support (and engage in) these acts that grieve the heart of God and risk their immortal souls?
Because we have forgotten who we are, and who God is.
Full story at Crisis Magazine.
I hate rainbow people. I hate them all because of how they are ruining this great country.
There’s no room for hate. We must not condone sinful acts, but we must do so with love in our hearts.
gay teachers are pedophile groomers. that’s why they are all freaking out about what we’re learning about what they teach, what they are keeping secret from parents, and about laws that would prohibit them from grooming kids to be gay or trans
I love how the new word du jour among the q-anon influenced right is grooming. Last year it was SSA. The year before that it was something else.
None of this is based in fact. When the two teachers were found to have been inviting receptive students to a gay straight alliance group…those teachers were straight.
The term ‘grooming’ is used by law enforcement and has been adopted by organizations that, among other things, instruct groups on child safety and safe environment training. It is a known, recognized, identifiable tactic that uses gradualism, patience and manipulation to lure other adults to trust their motives and gain sexual access to children. Looks like it’s working…
Grooming is a recognized concept. Grooming is not being done on a wide scale in schools. The word is being misused by the Qanon right
Anyone in authority over children actively describing their own or others sexuality is grooming.
So YfC 9:37, why do teachers and school boards, go to such lengths to hide these activities? Does that not indicate guilt, and that these actions have a criminal element?
YFC – Did it ever occur to you that the phrase “Qanon right,” or just “Qanon,” are widely over-used by the Left?
It’s just that people have woken up to what gays have been doing to children for a long time. Pushing transgenderism on kids was a bridge too far for middle America. The elite goofed, but they are sticking to their guns.
Oh, yeah, saying the word “grooming” is beyond the pale, but calling decent police officers murderers is perfectly acceptable? Get real.
The left wants to control language because if you control language you control people’s thoughts. “Sex assigned at birth” is an example. No, sex isn’t subjectively “assigned” at birth: it’s objectively there for any normal person to see for himself.
Teachers and others are in fact grooming children into adopting LGBT identities. What happened to 2% or 5%? Now Generation Z identifies as LGBTQ in something like 20%-30%? It’s all the result of grooming in schools and on TikTok.
“Born this way” was always a lie.
By the way, I was once a man trapped in a woman’s body. Then my mother gave birth to me. LOL
Some polls do say Get Z LGBTQ identify at 20%. I don’t believe that 20% are LGBT, do you? Nobody I know believes that.
It is 5.6%. Which is 1 out of 20 people. From what I see, most of it is bisexual. They just want to love whoever they love.
It’s all fact. Do you not read the news? Have you not seen the videos posted by gay kindergarten and preschool teachers saying they are proud of talking about their relationships with such young children and teaching them about gender? MSNBC and CNN won’t show those videos, so you have to go to real news sources or YouTube to see them.
It’s all fact. Gay teachers grooming young children is a fact. And now that Ron DeSantis has signed a law saying they can’t do that anymore their heads are exploding.
And as for new words… why don’t you comment on the ridiculous preferred pronoun cult that has swept over the Left, including the vice president?
No, you’re blinded. So you will only repeat leftist talking points like the silly, fake QAnon boogeyman. Yet you pride yourself on facts? Hah.
There goes YFC, more worried about the terms people use to describe what teachers are doing to kids than he is about what the kids are being taught using tax dollars.
I don’t celebrate gay unions, I don’t celebrate gays, and I don’t celebrate gay couples bringing children into an unnatural household arrangement.
Professional media conservatives like Dennis Prager who have congratulated this man, his fake spouse and their unnatural family are phonies. Dennis Prager said he’s against gay marriage. Except he’s chummy with acquaintances and friends who are gay married and congratulates them on raising children. Dennis Prager is a fraud, an actor. He doesn’t live what he preaches.
You think this is bad? The next thing to come will be the wealthy growing designer-created children in labs, not in wombs. Then chimera children, then androgynous children with superior intellectual and physical attributes compared with natural human beings. Some of you readers will live to see those things. No, my friends, global warming is not the biggest bogeyman staring at humanity.
Guys have infiltrated the GOP as they did with the Catholic Church.
Oh no! I long for the days when the GOP had no guys and was only women. It was bad enough when the church was women-only but then the guys infiltrated. Where will guys infiltrate next? The supreme court?
Man playing God is a recipe for disastrous sin.
propagating children in this ghoulish
manner is celebrated by the same
folks who are stressing out about
“Overpopulation.”
if anything, the culture is suffering from
“overcopulation.”
All life comes from God.
Just because something can be done does not mean it should be.
No child is responsible for how they were conceived.
No sin can be justified by the good that God brings from it.
Surrogacy should be outlawed. Gay adoptions should. A child, made by God– is sacred. Every child deserves to be conceived, born, and brought up, by a loving married (man/woman) couple, with good Judeo-Christian values, in a safe, normal, healthy home, where God is respected, and sin is not tolerated.
My comment of April 9 at 4:22pm was edited. The second sentence should read, “Gay adoptions should be illegal, too.”
In some cases, conscientious objection becomes a necessary decision if you are to be consistent with your “yes” to life and to the human person.
Pope Francis 2020 letter for World Day of the Sick
Are conscientious objections allowed for vaccinations?
Belated congratulations to Pete Buttigieg and his husband on their child as well. /sarcasm off
Children.
question to belated:
in what way is the child “theirs?”
I believe they legally adopted the kids. They are considered the kids’ parents and legal guardians.
There is no QANON. It’s a CIA psyop to set up a boogeyman and label anyone who thinks orthodoxy in any system, be it religion, tradition, politics, federalism, democratic republicanism, etc. Typical communist agitprop. Oooooh, who are the qanon, when will they save us…. Never, they don’t exist.
Or maybe….
so …. what you’re really saying
is: the child belongs to the State,
which perversely says the sodomites can
control/possess the kid.
ain’t ‘Merika great!