Our Kids Need Truth, Not Confusion

Today the world views authentic Catholicism as hateful and intolerant for supporting God’s truths in regard to homosexuality and transgenderism.  Especially in the month of June, when “pride month” saturates society, it takes fortitude to be counter-cultural.

Catholics and other Christians need to be prepared during June for the secular culture to call them bigoted and intolerant.  Many will also use the made-up word “homophobic” to shame and silence orthodox Christians.  Such is the post-Christian age in which we live.

Regrettably, too many of Christ’s followers act like the frightened Peter who denied Jesus three times when they don’t speak up for God’s plans regarding sexuality. Whether acting cowardly or being ignorantly complicit, too many Catholic clerics and lay people these days won’t raise their voices and state that same-sex “marriages” are immoral and illicit according to God’s law.  And people who think they can change their sex are mentally ill.

It is because the majority of Christians have been cowardly in keeping their mouths shut that depraved sexuality has grown in both its participants and its supporters. Not enough priests in the pulpit speak up.  Too many Catholic school teachers in the classrooms are cowed by secular society.  And not enough parents at the dinner table proclaim the truth regarding the dangers of sin and the culture’s lies surrounding human sexuality.

The so-called LGBTQIA2S+ movement stole the rainbow symbol. God made the rainbow as a symbol of His covenant with us. Evil people have since made the rainbow into a flag symbolizing sexual diversity an as the central icon of a new “religion.” The homosexual community created its own “religion” so they could revel in broadcasting their sexual appetites. “Gay pride” is what they call their so-called religion. It is not a coincidence that pride is the most prominent of the seven deadly sins.

Feelings Over Facts

People being hypersensitive about not wanting to hurt others’ feelings contribute much to this lack of publicly declaring the truth. Too many in the Church – from the clergy to the laity – appear to want the approval of the world instead of the approval of the Lord. Thus, they do not proclaim the truth – that conflating pride and sodomy with love is the work of the devil.

Weak Catholics and other Christians who place progressive causes above Scripture and God’s commandments often justify their faulty principles by inventing their own version of Jesus. They suppose Jesus to be like a 1960’s hippie who is a conflict-free appeaser. Their version of Jesus is one who flashes the peace-sign and unquestionably accepts everyone without judging actions. Faux believers envision their Lord being fine with attending a so-called pride parade.

The reality is today’s politically-correct and secular standards run counter to many of Jesus’s statements from 2,000 years ago. He did not excuse or support sexual sinners but confronted them. He told them to repent and sin no more.

Hippie-Jesus followers gloss over the fact that Christ spoke the truth about various sexual sins.

• He told an adulteress to “Go and from now on do not sin any more” (John 8:11);
• Jesus said, “Whoever divorces his wife and marries another, commits adultery against her; and if she divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery” (Mark 10:11-12);
• Jesus also reiterated that our Father purposely created us as two unique sexes who are called to marry and reproduce, when He said, “Have you not read that from the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female’ and said, ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’?” (Matthew 19:4-5).
• And speaking to us through St. Paul, Jesus says, “Do you not know that the unjust will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators nor idolaters nor adulterers nor boy prostitutes nor sodomites nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor robbers will inherit the kingdom of God” (1 Corinthians 6:9-10).

Furthermore, a pseudo-Christian’s version of a God who loves exclusively by affirming all people and all actions nonjudgmentally is purely fictional. The reality is our Heavenly Father caused millions to die in a flood due to their sins. He also burned down the towns of Sodom and Gomorrah due to homosexual immorality. As the Son, He smashed and destroyed the tables in the temple and angrily called people, ‘hypocrites,’ ‘blind fools,’ ‘children of hell,’ ‘brood of vipers,’ and ‘serpents.’

Truthful-Compassion Over Misplaced-Compassion

Both God the Father’s and God the Son’s love contains varied attributes.  Without a doubt, one such attribute is His mercy.  But His mercy also takes the form of “tough love” toward sinners. His mercy requires repentance.  God desires the salvation of His children more than He desires popularity and appeasement.

Our Lord calls us to love, and this includes compassionate concern for others’ eternal souls due to the sins and errors into which they fall. We show authentically Christian concern when we reject the falsehoods the secular culture pedals and correct the confusion that has permeated others’ disordered or unenlightened minds.

The other side calls a person unchristian for not going along with backing disordered sexuality. Yet an authentic Christian recognizes that real charity must be grounded in the truth.

One can have compassion without lying to those who pretend that all types of sexual actions are perfectly fine as long as they are consensual. Compassion does not mean agreeing with those who deny God created the sexual act to be solely between a man and woman.  It also does not mean capitulating to the delusion that marriage can be between two adults of the same sex. That would be misplaced-compassion.

To love our neighbor is our duty. This includes a same-sex attracted neighbor. But this caring love must not manifest itself in throwing a parade for their choices.  Rather it is manifested in calling people away from sexual sins and toward repentance and conversion towards Christ.

Instead of minimizing the grave nature of sexual sins, Catholics must magnify what the Church teaches. Homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered and are always violations of divine and natural law. One must not pay no mind to such acts or approve of them. And no one should celebrate them, ala “pride month.”

Are You Calling God a Liar?

Confused Christians who join in the ‘gay pride’ movement, endorse homosexual “marriage” and believe in so-called gender transitioning.  But they have separated themselves from God. They are arrogantly thinking more of themselves and less of their Lord whom they are basically calling a liar.

Nothing could be more heartbreaking to faithful Christian parents than to realize their children have gotten seduced by the lies of the world and are basically saying, “To hell with God!” Propagandized by the world, a majority of today’s youth embrace a false version of reality. They have been led to believe lies which are the opposite to what God commanded:

• God didn’t decide one’s sex at conception;
• Sexual relations with members of the same-sex are natural and good;
• Homosexual acts are not inherently sinful.

“Love is love” is the culture’s current mantra to prove sexual depravity is acceptable. But this catchphrase is a lie.  The accurate mantra we Christians should be reciting is, “Truth is love, and Jesus is the Truth.”

When discussing truths, we must support a basic, moral truth about human sexuality. Our Almighty Father created sexual acts to be an ordered, part of a lifelong, mutually exclusive union between one man and one woman, open to the gift of new life.

Children and young adults who buy into the so-called LGBTQIA2S+ belief system are being led astray by the echo chamber of the liberal news media, immoral Hollywood, corrupted social media, and even the public school system.  They are being told that homosexual “marriage” and homosexual sex is sweet and special. However, these acts are depraved and immoral.

And although June is the prominent month for promoting sexual debauchery, every month in today’s society offers some dose of celebrating sexual sins. Youngsters need to hear from mom and dad – this month and all year long!

Awaken Children’s Minds and Souls

Parents must destroy their kids’ belief in the “love is love” propaganda line by awakening their minds and souls. Otherwise, children may believe that loving a so-called transgender person or a homosexual means supporting and even applauding their destructive behavior.

How do parents awaken their sons’ and daughters’ minds and souls? They start by teaching them that fornication, adultery, sodomy, masturbation, and homosexuality have always been contrary to God’s laws. It is only in the past few generations that these forms of unchastity became accepted by the world.

They then can acknowledge to their youngsters that the call to abstain from unmarried sex can be a struggle for many, starting in puberty and extending through adulthood. Not only can it feel physically and emotionally difficult to refrain from disordered sexual acts, but it means one must have the strength to be counter-cultural. After all, it runs contrary to live a chaste life in our current culture which revels in unchastity.

Parents should discuss with their children as well, how the Church promotes the truth about human sexuality. Our sexuality and sexual acts are beautiful gifts from God. He wants us to live in accordance with His plans for chastity if we are to find the true joy that comes with fulfilling God’s call for our lives.

The Birds and the Bees

After all of this teaching and discussing, it is then time for mom and dad to get blunt. Once a youth has experienced puberty, he or she needs “the talk.” In previous generations, “the talk” was solely to explain how a man and woman performed the sexual act. In the modern world, “the talk” now must include explaining why homosexual sexual acts are a violation of not just Biblical law but natural law.

Teenagers need to hear from their parents that if one goes along with the “love is love” mantra they are actually agreeing that anal sex is normal, delightful, and welcome. Older children need to hear the unhealthy, vulgar reality of male homosexual acts, because the culture only talks in generalities about how sweet it is for men to love men and women to love women. Mothers and fathers need to be more vocal than the lies the culture directs at their kids.

In “the talk,” parents must stress that males were never intended to have sex with other males, and likewise females weren’t intended to be with other females. God perfectly built humans’ reproductive organs. Ordered and functioning in an obvious way, only the man-in-woman sexual act produces a baby.

Similarly, God built the digestive system to function in a particular way with defecation a necessary process. The anus is designed to eliminate a waste material known as feces. Items are not meant to enter the anus, only to leave it.

Speaking Lies or Not Speaking Are Both Harmful

Faithful Catholics must speak out – to their children and to lukewarm or naïve Christians – about the culture’s lies surrounding sexuality. Society finds itself in a degenerate hole today because yesterday not enough clergy and lay Catholics spoke up about the truth of sexual disorders. Thus through either commission or omission, weak or scared Catholics have neglected to care about others’ souls and minds.

In the case of our younger generation, parents remaining silent have at best led to their kids’ confusion and at worst have dangerously modeled to them that it is fine to go along with the sexual sins the culture promotes. A basic principle for Catholic families to follow is that admonishing sin is necessary because we love our neighbors and don’t want to see them go against God.

Our Lord calls us to stand firm, not deviate from His truth, and not condone any activity opposed to His teachings. God’s divine truth can never change, and the Church and its members can never cooperate with or approve of sin.

Caring for their children’s minds and souls means parents must not allow their youngsters to make up “their own truths.” Instead, faithful mothers and fathers must help their kids realize that love and truth are not in opposition to each other, especially in the area of sexual morality.