Another Prayer Request

Somewhere in the Gospel it does not say, "if you find a bunch of people blinded by the zeitgeist and carrying those abominable ideas to their illogical conclusions, you have the moral duty to organize a security force and send those people off to concentration camps."

I have to keep this passage in mind every year when my normal route to Sunday mass is blocked by the Homosexual Envy... (no, not that sin, Gluttony? no, no, although quite accurate, as is Lust, but that's not what they call it...Pride. Right. I knew it was one of the seven) Pride Parade in San Francisco. I am not that homophobic, even though I am working on it, but there is something about literally parading ones disordered sex life about that makes me long for the days when the police would have put the kabosh on this stuff immediately.

Now, I do not back down from the position that this sort of parade should be illegal, and that sodomy should be treated as a criminal activity, but beyond that, I have to realize that my gut instinct is all too human, in the post Fall sort of way. So, no, I recognize, the proper response is not to round up all the paraders and send them to Manzanar (they should at least be given one warning, and then a night in county jail first), but to pray for these people who are themselves victims of heresiarchs who have all but destroyed the public conversation of morality, of fraudulent psychologists who settle matters of Truth by popular vote, of a media that sells sex in order to sell more sex, of politicians who believe that morality is whatever 51% of the public thinks it is, of horrid notions of individual autonomy that are running wild over the land.

So, this Sunday, please pray for the conversion of the participants in the Homosexual Parade, and all those who stubbornly call right wrong and wrong right. Also, pray for those of us who are in constant danger of sinning in reaction to some other sin, for our conversion is probably even more difficult than theirs.