By David Edwards
Tuesday, January 28, 2014
A Catholic
bishop who performed an exorcism after the state of Illinois legalized same-sex
marriage said last week that he did it because he loved LGBT people and they
needed to be punished like children.
Just minutes
after Gov. Pat Quinn (D) signed a bill legalizing same-sex marriage last
November, Roman Catholic Bishop Thomas John Paprocki performed an
exorcism on the entire state of Illinois.
Paprocki told Life Site
News during last week’s March for Life in Washington D.C. that
he went through with the exorcism because the church was “under persecution.”
“Certainly
the redefinition of marriage is an opposition to God’s plan for married life,”
he explained. “So I thought that would be a fitting time to have that prayer,
really for praying for God and his power to drive out the Devil from his
influence that seems to be pervading our culture.”
“To be
opposed to the redefinition of marriage and to be opposed to things that are
sinful, that’s actually a very loving thing,” Paprocki continued. “Perhaps it’s
the permissiveness of our society that people think that if you don’t get what
you want that you’re somehow being hateful, if you don’t give them what they
want. But sometimes, like any good parent will tell you, that sometimes you
have to discipline your child, sometimes you have to say no. And sometimes, you
even have to punish.”
“And when a
parent does those things towards their children, they’re actually being very
loving by correcting them and showing them the right way to do things.”
Paprocki
reminded Life Site News that the “redefinition of marriage” came from the
“father of lies,” and that the media had lied by claiming that children could
be nurtured in LGBT homes.
“We are
facing a lot of untruths out there,” he warned. “We just have to be persistent
and courageous and stand up for the truth.”
Watch this
video from Life Site News, broadcast Jan. 26, 2014.
4 comments:
Tough love eh?
Here we go again! How many more homophobic clergyman/politician shocking scandals is it going take before people and fundamentalists in particular, who support this garbage, realize that there's a pretty good (excellent actually) chance that the Bishop just might be a self hating homo who's talking about himself?
And for those few rabble rousing homophobes who yack on and on, spewing forth their filthy venom for years, but where there is never any indication that they might be closeted, usually one or two other things maybe going on: 1. They've either found a great cash cow for their ministries or political careers and/or 2. they did something secretly somewhere earlier in their lives (maybe a one time incident, maybe even only while fantasizing) and as heterosexuals, have never been able to come to grips with what happened, or been able to forgive themselves. Scapegoating then becomes the only way of relieving their neurotic anxieties.
Oh really? Someone out there in Salvation Cyberland thinks not? Just ask Uncle Adolph (Hitler) and his henchmen, most of whom (including Uncle Adolph himself)turned out to be descendants of Jewish ancestors.
Daryl Lach
USA Central
"You Must Go Home By the Way of the Cross, To Stand With Jesus In the Morning!"
I applaud the Bishop for what he did.
However i find Daryl Lach's comments to be in a world of their own.
The truth for me is simple---Scripture teaches that Homosexual Acts--that is having same sex relationships physically is a sin.
Scripture does not teach that being tempted to have same sex physical realtionships is sin.
The act is.
For case closed.
John Stephenson
Canada amd Bermuda
I, too, applaud the Bishop's comments. Strip away all the hype, the emotion, the heartbreak of all these 'pro LGBT' articles where family members' involvement/adoption of the LGBT lifestyle have created dilemmas for the parents and siblings (to accept or reject traditional theology or to become 'inclusive'), the 'have you now changed your way of thinking' entreaties, the impassioned pleas of people like Daryl Lach and Graeme Randall in particular (who rarely comments on any other type of article, if you've noticed) - strip all this away and the Bishop's words are the voice of reason - the voice of Scripture. As for Daryl's comments above - you wouldn't expect anything else, really. Although why he should be on the attack all the time, spewing out his diatribe against all those who dare to think differently to him is a little worrying - AND intolerant. I mean, the phrase 'And for those few rabble rousing homophobes who yack on and on, spewing forth their filthy venom for years....' - is that rational? Do you hear many Christians speaking like that?
Be careful - be very careful - in deciding to join the 'inclusive' bandwagon. It's where intolerance rules, and where Christian 'moderation in all things' is dead.
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