“Gay” Prits? An Open Letter to Fr. Jam Mart - Crisis Magaze

Contents:

• THE CLEAR RPONSE OF A PRIT TO FR. JAM MART FOR SUPPORTG 'GAY PRI'
• I’M EX-GAY. FR. JAM MART’S LGBT AFFIRMATN PERVERTS THE GOSPEL, ENSLAV SOULS S
• FR. JAM MART’S BIG GAY INTERVIEW
• “GAY” PRITS? AN OPEN LETTER TO FR. JAM MART
• FATHER JAM MART: GAY PRI COMPATIBLE WH SACRED HEART OF J
• FR. MART PRAIS EXMUNITED GAY PRIT
• FR JAM MART AND THE GAY NATIVY
• POPE PRAIS JAM MART'S MISTRY TO GAY CATHOLICS

THE CLEAR RPONSE OF A PRIT TO FR. JAM MART FOR SUPPORTG 'GAY PRI'

Father, when you tweeted “Pri Month” greetgs to your “LGBTQ iends, ” urgg them to be “proud” of their “God-given digny” and “gifts” and their “place the world, ” did you mean to suate that homosexualy is a gift om God and th somethg to embrace? In fact, prohibg homosexual acts (as the Church do) would be immoral, bee would prevent people om beg who God ma them to be and dog what God wants them to do.

If you thk that homosexualy is not a nature given by God, do not have a sexual exprsn that is moral and orred to a person’s happs, then the only other optn is that is unnatural, that s sexual exprsns are immoral, and that, however mixed wh real iendship or real virtu may be any given suatn, ’s ultimately orred away om happs.

In which se, don’t sayg that gay people are born that way, and sistg on g the gay-affirmative language that people wh SSA “e for themselv, ” have the effect of affirmg people what will make them unhappy? So when you refer to a man and “his hband” and their child; when you are chronilly silent on the legal movements to refe marriage and fay spe your fluential Catholic profile on the issue; when we do the math and realize that endorsg same-sex marriage is the only logil end pot of endorsg homosexualy as God-given and natural—’s only fair to wonr whether you assent to this teachg.

I’M EX-GAY. FR. JAM MART’S LGBT AFFIRMATN PERVERTS THE GOSPEL, ENSLAV SOULS S

Is the full package: nmnatn of homosexual acts as disorred and trsilly immoral, affirmatn that our sexual faculti are orred toward maral love between a man and a woman, a basic biblil anthropology of sexual difference and plementary, and so on? This would make sense of your claim that “for a teachg to be really thorative is expected that will be received by the people of God, ” but that Catholic teachg on homosexualy hasn’t been “received” by the “LGBT muny. Or maybe you’re holdg on to a mental rervatn which the “Church teachg” to which you claim assent is actually what you thk Church teachg should be, or what you thk ’s gog to be—once the Church fally sheds all s old homophobic hangups.

Bee when you say that you “will not challenge” Church teachg on homosexualy and even lay out that teachg imprsive tail, most people n figure out that this isn’t the same as sayg you agree wh , that you endorse and promote , and that you aren’t subtly— ways that don’t rise to the level of a “challenge”—workg to change .

FR. JAM MART’S BIG GAY INTERVIEW

Parts of the film foc on Michael Voris, founr of the ultranservative, anti-gay Catholic group Church Milant, who says the film that he once intified as gay. "In that sense, any vatn to celebrate pri day, march or pri month is led out for Catholics bee all of them are part of the effort to remove the state of s om the practice of homosexual tennci or other siar or related tennci. “Homosexual persons are lled to chasty” and through “the support of disterted iendship, by prayer and sacramental grace, they n and should gradually and rolutely approach Christian perfectn.

“GAY” PRITS? AN OPEN LETTER TO FR. JAM MART

One of Mart’s admirers — or perhaps, enablers — is Pope Francis, who granted his fellow Ju a very public ‘private dience, ’ October, lendg him the ra of papal approval regardg his missn to normalize homosexualy and transgenrism wh the Roman Catholic Church. Curly, the loust voic the public square soundg the alarm about Mart tend to be men who formerly lived as ‘gay, ’ such as Joseph Sciambra, Michael Voris, myself, and others. One wonrs: How had the so-lled rights to abortn and to homosexual “marriage” elud the natn’s brightt legal mds for centuri, until a few jtic fally ‘disvered’ the “rights” hidn the shadows of the U.

He has disvered what he believ is Christian affirmatn for homosexualy and transgenrism emanatg om the Bible and the Catechism, which no doctor of the Church or sat was wise or bright enough to tect – until Mart me along. “One reason I don’t foc on [chasty] is bee every LGBT Catholic I’ve ever met, every member of their fay, and pretty much every Catholic, already knows Church teachg on celibacy and chasty when to homosexualy, ” claimed Mart. He wants the Church to affirm the same-sex attracted as “gay” and “lbian” and the genr dysphoric as “trans men” and “trans women, ” place of their te inty as children of God.

FATHER JAM MART: GAY PRI COMPATIBLE WH SACRED HEART OF J

Basg self on Sacred Scripture, which prents homosexual acts as acts of grave pravy, tradn has always clared that "homosexual acts are trsilly disorred. Canonist Ed Peters not, "Mart might regret that, virtue of Canon 1055 (which prents the nature of marriage self), two lbians nnot marry each other, nor n two homosexuals, but, if that is what unrli Mart's plats about celibacy supposedly beg imposed on such persons, he needs to take up wh the fallible Magisterium of the Church. Mart claimed that the many thoands of people who have left the homosexual liftyle are "nflict" wh themselv — that their liv aren't "tegrated" as current homosexuals are.

FR. MART PRAIS EXMUNITED GAY PRIT

" Attemptg to expla away those who have left the homosexual liftyle, he told his dience, "What happens is their own junk si gets foced outwards on people who are actually tryg to live a more tegrated life. YouTube is filled wh acunts that affirm eedom is possible; a search for "ex-gay" reveals vast numbers of former homosexuals who have gone on to repture a healthy, heterosexual orientatn. Mart's dismissal is a slap the face to those who have worked hard to be fahful to God, leavg the homosexual liftyle and rryg their cross heroilly for the sake of somethg greater than themselv.

FR JAM MART AND THE GAY NATIVY

[T]his Distery, acrd wh the Congregatn for Dive Worship and the Disciple of the Sacraments, believ necsary to state clearly that the Church, while profoundly rpectg the persons qutn, nnot adm to the semary or to holy orrs those who practise homosexualy, prent ep-seated homosexual tennci or support the so-lled "gay culture.

Bm revealed his tobgraphy that while servg as an adviser at the Send Vatin Council, he began a homosexual relatnship wh another man and ntued for 30 years, even after he left the prithood and married an ex-nun, Shirley, who approved of the relatnship.

POPE PRAIS JAM MART'S MISTRY TO GAY CATHOLICS

"I did not profs my own homosexualy public bee such an act of honty would have rced my fluence as a cril theologian, " he nced, addg, "I was eager to be heard as a theologian, tstg God as salvator mundi (Savr of the world) and mted to social jtice, liberatn theology and global solidary. He simply ref to say what the Church fact says, namely, that though we mt love those who experience and even act on same-sex sir, homosexual acts are wrong and sful — morally and spirually harmful to those engagg them.