The following was sent to Cal Catholic by one of our readers on Nov. 21.
Berkeley’s Graduate Theological Union consists of eight schools. One of the eight is the Pacific School of Religion, which is home to the Center for Gay and Lesbian Studies in Religion. The center is funded by the usual homosexualist suspects: the Gill Foundation, the Arcus Foundation, the Evelyn & Walter Haas Foundation, etc. The managing director of the center is a transgender man named Justin Tanis.
Tanis biography, from the center website, reads:
“Justin earned his M.Div. degree at Harvard Divinity School and his Doctor of Ministry degree from San Francisco Theological Seminary. His dissertation was published in 2003 by Pilgrim Press as Transgendered: Ministry, Theology, and Communities of Faith and was a finalist for a Lambda Literary award that year. That book was also the first in the [center’s] book series. He has also contributed chapters to the Queer Bible Commentary and Take Back the Word: A Queer Reading of the Bible. An artist and photographer, Justin has had a lifelong passion for the arts. His scholarly interests include the theology expressed by LGBT visual artists, which is the focus of his PhD studies here at the GTU.
Justin has served congregations in Boston, Honolulu, and San Francisco and spent nine years as a denominational executive, coordinating leadership and educational programs in twenty-two countries. He has brings with him a long history with grassroots activism, including ACT-UP and Queer Nation in the 1980s and serving as spokesperson and media coordinator for the Hawai’i Equal Rights Marriage Project in the 1990s. Justin’s work also includes advocacy for LGBT rights in national non-profit organizations. He was the community education and outreach manager at the National Center for Transgender Equality in Washington, D.C. and later served as the director of communication for Out & Equal Workplace Advocates, based in San Francisco, which advocates for equal employment rights for LGBT people.”
This biography contains a significant omission: Tanis’s extensive and ongoing participation at leadership level in the homosexual sado-masochistic subculture. Dozens of websites dedicated to that subculture indicate Tanis’ participation dates back to at least 1995, and continues to the present day. In July of 2014 San Francisco Leatherman’s Discussion Group hosted a Leathersex and Spirituality workshop. Tanis moderated the event. From the event’s Facebook page:
“JUSTIN TANIS (moderator) … has presented at numerous leather events including Leather Leadership Conference, South Plains Leatherfest, the Master/slave Conference, Los Angeles Leather Weekend and Rio Grande Leather….Justin serves as managing director of the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies in Religion and Ministry in Berkeley and is working on a second doctoral degree.”
From the introduction to a 2003 SCENEprofiles (a sado-masochistic website) interview with Tanis: “justin tanis has been exploring BDSM since he finally convinced someone to tie him up and do wonderfully mean things to him 18 years ago.”
From the program for the 2012 Master/slave Conference (formatting in original), where Tanis gave workshops and served on the three-person education team: “slave justin has been enjoying SM for over 20 years and has served as a slave for almost 14 years; he was honored to have been a member of the Order for Discipline and Service and to have been owned by Master Jack McGeorge. Justin is the editor of The Leather Times, the newsletter of the Leather Archives & Museum, and was the recipient of the 2008 Pantheon of Leather Rocky Mountain Regional Award. He has presented at a wide range of leather events including Leather Leadership Conference, Southplains Leatherfest, the Master/ slave Conference, Los Angeles Leather Weekend and Rio Grande Leather. He works for a national LGBT advocacy organization. ..”
There are a number of connections between the Center for Gay and Lesbian Studies in Religion and homosexual activist Catholics. Like Tanis, Father Orlando Espin (a regular at L.A.’s Religious Education Conference) sits is on the staff of the center. Like Tanis, according to the center’s webpage, homo-activist Catholic priest Father Jim Schexnayder sits on the national advisory board of the center. Michael Sepidoza Campos, the openly homosexual teacher of religion at San Francisco’s Stuart Hall archdiocesan high school, is one of the Emerging API Queer Religious Scholars listed on the center’s website.San Francisco’s Most Holy Redeemer Church has a number of ties to the center. In 2007, a man named Jim McRae was listed as a member of the center’s Bay Area Advisory Board. In 2007, Jesuit priest Father Donal Godfrey,author of Gays and Grays: The Story of Most Holy Redeemer Catholic Parish, spoke at the center’s Lavender Lunch program.
On December 1, 2010 Rev. Jay Johnson spoke at an Advent Vespers service at Most Holy Redeemer. Johnson is the senior director of Academic Research and Resources at the center. In 2011, the Reverend Roland Stringfellow, the director of Ministerial Outreach at the center, was the scheduled speaker at an Most Holy Redeemer Advent Vespers service until he was disinvited by then-Archbishop George Niederauer. In 2012, Father Godfrey’s friend Patrick Mulcahey, former eucharist minister and past parish council vice-president at Most Holy Redeemer, gave workshops at the Master/slave Conference—the conference at which Tanis was giving workshops.
One disordered Mortal Sin can easily lead to other disordered Mortal Sins.
So this should be no surprise to anyone.
People do not have to pay tuition for immoral behavior.
This secular university must NEVER profess to teach anything about the Catholic Faith.
If anyone wants info on the Catholic Church read the CCC.
“….the CATECHISM has raised throughout the world, even among non-Christians,
and confirms its purpose of being presented as a full, complete exposition of Catholic doctrine, enabling everyone to know what the Church professes, celebrates, lives, and prays in her daily life.” – Pope John Paul II (CCC pg xiv)
I didn’t know that homosexuals had their own religion, but I guest that makes sense since SODOMY violates all Christian Faiths (Bibles), the Jewish Faith, the Muslim Faith, and most forms of Buddhism.
Are these classes being subsidized by our FEDERAL or CA STATE tax dollars ?
What is the official religion of homosexuals, if there is no such thing- there should be no such class.
Parents beware of the classes your children are taking.
Mr. (?) Master/Slave Leather Tanis should have no access to anything Catholic. Of course, there are a good number of Catholic priests that think he is just dandy (and maybe participate with Old Leatherhead in some S&M “to relax”). How in the world did Mr. Master (or Mr. Slave) earn “divinity” degrees? (And, how is that Michael Sepidoza Campos can teach at a Catholic HS — someone tell the Bishop!!)
There is a definite blurring of acceptable behavior within the world of laity “leaders” of the Catholic Church. They attend simply awful conferences and centers and earn phony degrees and certifications, then hold themselves out as “liturgists” or “catechists” or other such “minister”. Of course, Pope Francis probably likes such a “mess” but the point is that no one seriously challenges these people from getting involved with Church activities, including teaching children.
Time to challenge any homosexual sexualist involvement with anything Catholic, unless that person publicly recants their behavior, saying that it was morally wrong and the they will not engage in it any longer. With such a public confession, then they can erase the scandal that is caused whenever a homosexual sexual person becomes a “Catholic activist”. Mr. Master/Slave Leatherhead needs to go far away from anything Catholic.
“Time to challenge any homosexual sexualist involvement with anything Catholic, unless that person publicly recants their behavior, saying that it was morally wrong and the they will not engage in it any longer.”
Thank you St. Christopher! You are absolutely right!
2014 LA Religious Ed Congress on Livestream
new.livestream.com/randomhouzeproductions/recongress2014
Livestream
Scroll down to video Workshop – Rev. R. Tony Ricard
Topic: “If Loving You is Wrong, I Don’t Want to be Right! Exploring God’s Unconditional Love”
This video is evidence of the homosexual indoctrination taking place with our children and adults. If you can bear to watch the entire video it will be informative as to the tactics that are being used. At.43.27 minutes into the video he talks about THOSE people who won’t let others love who they want to love. Then it gets worse. as it continues. I notice that they put Father Robert Barron’s teaching video right under this homosexualist indoctrinating workshop. Also scroll down and see the “Urban Fusion Mass” What in the world is an Urban Fusion Mass? They deliberately left out the word CON in front of fusion.
“Let him, who is without sin, cast the first stone.” The words of Jesus Christ…
Jesus said: “GO and SIN NO MORE”.
and
“That only FEW will be SAVED”
and
“JUDGE with RIGHT JUDGMENT”.
“Emory”: Yes, Christ said this, and he forgave the woman caught in adultery. But Jesus did not say, “don’t worry, you have an adulterer’s gift; go the Synagogue and tell them to welcome you, and your lover who is married to another (or your husband, whatever)”.
This guy is toxic and obviously happy to be so. Your point suggests that you do not believe in sin. Christ never said to avoid identifying sinful behavior, to call it out, and to avoid doing it and having anything to do with those that commit it knowingly. Your view implies the current nuttiness of believing that by saying, “mercy”, that sodomy and adultery and anything that violates Catholic sexual ethics is now acceptable.
Yes, Jesus talked about compassion, and forgiveness, and mercy — but He also talked (the most of anyone) about the reality of Hell, and that sinful behavior will get you there, and that there is no salvation without conformity to His word and commandments. Too bad that Cardinals Dolan, Wuerl and Abp. Cupich and so many other bishops and priests simply forgot how to behave like Catholics. Too bad for them, but their negligence and clerical malpractice goes deeper: how many people will be lead to perdition because they decide to follow the crazy direction of their words and deeds, and omissions.
Leave Tanis to his S&M buddies (who likely include a good number of Catholics and Catholic religious and clerics). Just keep him away from Catholics, just like you would keep someone with Ebola from going to Mass on Sunday.
Those stones were to kill the woman not to correct her with love. Big difference. Jesus is saying that stoning was not the way to live in truth.
Bishops (and Priests as appropriate) have an OBLIGATION to teach, correct, and if necessary discipline those obstinate in Mortal Sin.
TRUTH can be found
1) in Holy Scripture and
2) the CCC.
No picking and choosing – but in entirety.
By the time one gets to the age to consider graduate level education at any institution, the vast majority of persons are past the minimum age for legal and religious adulthood. Parents treat these young adults as children at the parents own risk. Parents can guide, but no longer decide.
He who has the gold rules.
So it depends if the Parents are paying housing and educational expenses, transportation or other living expenses.
But you are right that if young adults choose mortal sin, and die without repentance, they will have chosen Hell at by themselves. :(
Such is the nature of the pathetic farce of Academentia – and the Big Money (like Gill) /Big Tent of Misandry – Hatred of Men & Boys, Masculinity & Normal Heterosexuality. Check out the Buried Story (not found in today’s ‘news’) of the leadership of the Larry Brinkin Racist Pederast Toddler Rape rings:
HOMOSEXUAL HRC FOUNDER ARRESTED FOR RAPING 15-YEAR-OLD BOY
https://barbwire.com/2014/11/20/homosexual-hrc-founder-arrested-raping-15-year-old-boy/
Yet another high profile “gay” activist has been arrested for homosexual assault on a child.
This time authorities caught one of the big fish (a rainbow trout?). Terrance Patrick Bean founded the “Human Rights Campaign” (HRC), which is one of the world’s largest, wealthiest and most powerful anti-Christian organizations.
Such is the nature of the pathetic farce of Academentia – who will provide virtually any service or degree – for a Fee… Providing of course it lacks Virtue.
Check out the latest Heavily Censored story about their ‘leadership’ and agenda for promoting Misandry – Hatred of Men & Boys, Masculinity & Normal Heterosexuality – in the schools & society:
HOMOSEXUAL HRC FOUNDER ARRESTED FOR RAPING 15-YEAR-OLD BOY
https://barbwire.com/2014/11/20/homosexual-hrc-founder-arrested-raping-15-year-old-boy/
Yet another high profile “gay” activist has been arrested for homosexual assault on a child.
This time authorities caught one of the big fish (a rainbow trout?). Terrance Patrick Bean founded the “Human Rights Campaign” (HRC), which is one of the world’s largest, wealthiest and most powerful anti-Christian organizations.
Speaking out on arrest of homosexual leader
SaveCalifornia.com says Terry Bean’s funding recipients are callous to kids
One of the biggest homosexual activists in America has been caught with his pants down. Literally.
Terry Bean, who runs the multi-million-dollar Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund that elects pro-homosexuality candidates, and who founded the Human Rights Campaign, the largest “LGBT” group in the United States of America, has been arrested in Oregon and charged with “sexual assault” on a “juvenile male.”
Also on Wednesday, Bean’s former “lover” was arrested on “sex abuse charges and two counts of sodomy.” But despite these sex crimes, the Democrat politicians in Oregon and Washington, DC that are funded by Terry Bean are refusing to comment to the media.
Randy Thomasson, president of SaveCalifornia.com was interviewed for this eye-opening story by GoLocalPDX.com, an online news site in Portland.
The lack of comment from political and social figures so far is concerning to Randy Thomasson, president of the conservative group SaveCalifornia.com.
“It’s callousness and a lack of love for children,” Thomasson said. “These people should at least be speaking out against the sexual conquest of children and speaking in favor of consent laws. It’s proving corruption.”
Dr. Paul Cameron, chairman of the pro-family organization Family Research Institute, said he was not surprised when he heard the news about Bean’s arrest. He said the case will serve as an example supporting his organization’s research against homosexuality.
People steeped in yuky mortal sin, don’t care about anything else.
Another homosexual makes the news:
https://barbwire.com/2014/11/20/homosexual-hrc-founder-arrested-raping-15-year-old-boy/
Actually Jorgensen – it isTwo Homosexuals making the ‘news’ – by ‘news’ i mean Matt Barber’s Column and little else.
One of the big Reasons for the Lamesteam Media Censorship Blanket is the photos attached to the story showing POTUS ‘Down Low’ Soetoro (Of Chicago’s Bathhouse “Man Country” Fame, Ahem) closely Hugging and Mugging with Terrance ‘Terry’ Bean…& Michelle at one point;
The Big Media Non-Story = Will the Terrance ‘Terry’ Bean Story be as heavily suppressed as the Larry Brink Racist Pederast Toddler Rape-Porn ring was?
SEE
“Below is an almost too-comical-to-be-true video montage of Terry Bean with America’s “first gay president,” Barack Hussien Obama:
https://barbwire.com/2014/11/20/homosexual-hrc-founder-arrested-raping-15-year-old-boy/
HOMOSEXUAL HRC FOUNDER ARRESTED FOR RAPING 15-YEAR-OLD BOY
Yet another high profile “gay” activist has been arrested for homosexual assault on a child. This time authorities caught one of the big fish (a rainbow trout?). Terrance Patrick Bean founded the “Human Rights Campaign” (HRC), which is one of the world’s largest, wealthiest and most powerful anti-Christian organizations. To this day he remains on the board of directors.
SEE
San Francisco’s Gay Icon Larry Brinkin Guilty of Felony Child Porn Possession
https://cnsnews.com/news/article/michael-w-chapman/san-francisco-s-gay-icon-larry-brinkin-guilty-felony-child-porn
WARNING: Some of the language in this story is graphic and disturbing.
This man is VERY SICK!! Since the evil 1960’s, too many frightened Americans and frightened religious leaders, have failed to call a spade a spade— they are all so busy trying to be “nice,” “non-judgmental,” — and so falsely “open-minded,” their brains fell out! This truly sick man, and many others like him— never served God at all! They only served the false, diabolic, pagan god of their own making— worshiping the idol of their disordered gay sex desire! These people all need to understand, that they are MENTALLY ILL– and desperately need the True Christ. and to surrender their lives to Him! Perhaps they will have to endure their illness, their “disability,” — lifelong! Yet, God sends catastrophes like illness and disability, for His own reasons! A “cross to bear,” for life— and a good, true Christian, must patiently submit to the Cross, surrender, and humbly follow Christ! Then, one will finally find true holiness, true salvation!
For many long decades, especially since the diabolic 1960’s— Graduate Theological Union, in Berkeley, has been a shameful FRAUD!! And few of our Catholic schools are truly “Catholic,” since Vatican II! That includes such immoral and heretical frauds, as Convent of the Sacred Heart and Stuart Hall, both in San Francisco. Our Jesuit Pope and all his leaders are too scared, I guess, like their predecessors, since Vatican II—- to properly run the Church, and fix problems– and tell fraudulent Catholics– “NO!!” Are these Churchmen truly Catholic, or even “Christian??”
If Bishops do their jobs – teaching, correcting, and disciplining if necessary – their reward for Saving Souls will be in Heaven,
even though on earth it may be uncomfortable.
With the exception of John (and Judas Iscariot) all the Apostles were Martyrs.
Cardinals and Bishops should not take the appointments if they are not willing to die for the Faith.
Pray for the Pope and all the Bishops.
i have a question…has also the dominicans been infected by this because they share theological facilities and interact with this “theological union” don’t they? yet the central province seems pretty decent and the eastern province of st joseph even moreso…my suspicion is tthat things aren’t so orthodox among the berkeley dominicans, or am i wrong and there are hopeful signs?
You could at least spell my name correctly: McCrea
And a Happy Thanksgiving to you all, too.
whatever…
Et cum spiritu tuo, friend.
In a longer Column on ‘Renew America’ author J. Matt Barber provides more details – but starts with a quote from one of CHINO Nancy Pelosi’s favorite pederasts, the since deceased Harry Hay…
– Who was the equivalent of State Senator Mark “Kiddie Porn King” Leno (Pelosi’s heir apparent in congress) in his day, and honored in parades by the ‘Demicrat Elite’ of Sodom by the Sea like Larry Brinkin and others (like pederast ‘Beat Poet’ Ginsberg) more recently.
SEE
https://www.renewamerica.com/columns/mbarber/141124
Obama buddy, HRC founder charged with raping boy
By J. Matt Barber
“It seems to me that in the gay community the people who should be running interference for NAM/BLA are the parents and friends of gays. Because if the parents and friends of gays are truly friends of gays, they would know from their gay kids that the relationship with an older man is precisely what 13-, 14-, and 15-year-old kids need more than anything else in the world.”
– Harry Hay, founder of the modern “gay rights” movement
None of it matters: Neither common sense, nor an abundance of victim testimony, peer-reviewed studies, nor their own loathsome admissions and actions. Nothing will move secular-“progressives” to acknowledge the undeniable interplay between homosexuality and childhood sexual abuse.
Whether it’s boy-raping “gay” priests, or boy-raping “gay” activists, the problem is systemic. Homosexual predators are targeting our boys.
You listening, Boy Scouts of America?
Who Are These People?
Although they make up a tiny percentage of the population they still Dominate the Demicrat Party, and thus the CA Courts & Academentia – where they ruthlessly indoctrinate the Young and Legally Retaliate against anyone who dares speak the truth…
– Provided of course that Truth fails to “Reflect Adversely” on their depraved misandry & physically harmful, pathological Behaviors – which is Verboten!
SEE
Recent cases demonstrate religious freedom threats
https://californiafamilyalliance.org/TWIC2014.11.24.html BY LORI ARNOLD, RESEARCH ANALYST
In the run up to the November 2008 vote on Proposition 8—in which California voters rightly decided that natural marriage was the only legitimate form of matrimony—the amendment’s supporters warned that the ramifications of homosexual marriage would extend well beyond those unions to ultimately include a direct assault on religious liberties.
During the campaign, the Protect Marriage coalition, led by California Family Council and other pro-family organizations, was labeled as histrionic, paranoid and disingenuous for trying to link same-sex marriage to the loss of religious freedoms.
History, unfortunately, has vindicated us…
– Unfortunately, the happenings in Houston and Coeur d’Alene are just the latest in a series of events that seek to silence the church and other opposition to the progressive LGBT movement. In California schools, for instance, educators have muzzled the rights of students and parents through a variety of laws, including:
Assembly Bill 1266, Senate Bill 48, SB 543, SB 777.
Taken from National Catholic Register
DAILY NEWS
‘IN SYNOD-RELATED EFFORT, HOMOSEXUAL-RIGHTS ACTIVIST TARGET EIGHT U.S. BISHOPS’
A coalition of well-funded groups is lobbying against prominent bishops in hopes of changing Church doctrine and practice.
Read more: https://www.ncregister.com/daily-news/in-synod-related-effort-homosexual-rights-activists-target-eight-u.s.-bisho/#.VHOgcQ3NfVR.facebook%23ixzz3K6aRfbTM#ixzz3K9cQTMwo
Q: Who are these people?
A: http://www.tinyurl.com/HomoAbusers
http://www.tinyurl.com/10SodomiteMyths
MASS Resistance Says:
“More pressure needed on corporations funding national LGBT activist group — after founder arrested for seducing boy. “Gala banquet” this Saturday.
Can you take five minutes to send four emails?
https://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen2/14d/hrc-banquet/update_112114.html
Saturday evening, Nov. 22, numerous major corporations are participating in a “gala fundraiser” in Boston for the radical LGBT group “Human Rights Campaign” (HRC). Companies such as Staples, CVS, Liberty Mutual Insurance, and Citizens Bank are donating up to $25,000.
What kind of a group is this? This week the founder of HRC– and current Board member – Terrence Bean, 66, was arrested for “third degree sodomy” of a 15-year-old boy, a felony.
As we’ve reported, HRC uses this money to fund the radical anti-family LGBT movement across America: To push homosexuality into elementary schools, help pass laws across the country to criminalize Christian belief in the workplace, fund the efforts to force “gay marriage” through the federal courts, viciously harass pro-family groups, and much more.
We are calling on everyone to take action NOW (see below). People across America are sick and tired of corporations that they buy from funding this vicious anti-family organization.
Sample email text:
Dear XY: “I am outraged that your company is taking part in the Human Rights Campaign fundraiser in Boston on Saturday night.
This pushes radical homosexual programs in elementary schools.
They viciously attack pro-family individuals.
On Thursday, the HRC founder was arrested for seducing a 15-year-old boy. Why are you funding this?