Recent decision to bar a child's re-enrollment in Catholic school because of the unmarriable status of his two female parents (how's that for an oblique description?) and has found it necessary, in order to do this, to reject the indivisible unity that exists between the teaching of Our Lord in the four Gospels and the authoritative magisterium of the Church. (Professor Robert George has responded to that post; I know I sent Professor Perry an e.mail last night myself.) Professor Perry has defended his thesis today.
There are, putting this as simply as I can, three issues ongoing here.
First, the party of so-called 'gay rights' is loud, active and well-entrenched on 'the Left side' of the Church political, and its professedly Catholic adherents are incapable of placing the demands of the Catholic religion above and beyond its demands.
Second, large numbers of professedly Catholic people are woefully uneducated in the truths of the Christian Faith authoritatively taught by the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church.
Third, large numbers of professedly Catholic people have substituted a worldview more inspired by materialist rationalism than by Revelation and modern, post-modern and 'modernist' pseudo-truths for the authentic propositions of the Catholic Faith.
Having written all that, I suspect that Professor Perry may well be right in speculating that this can't be the last word Mons Chaput utters on this issue.
Update on Thursday, March 11, 2010 at 5:48AM by
Marc
Professor George responds to Professor Perry, more thoroughly than I would or perhaps could have done; should have had to actually read whatever letter or note Mons Chaput issued, in the first place, ahem, instead of relying on the virtual representations thereof.