The Hypocrisy of Barney Frank
imply to the equivalency of marriage between a man and a woman is a travesty of marriage, and indeed, deeply anti-marriage. Allowing such unions--even more so giving them legal recognition--"would result in changes to the entire organization of society, contrary to the common good."
To place homosexual unions on par with a marriage between a man and a woman will have the ineluctable result that the "the concept of marriage would undergo a radical transformation," and this results in a "grave detriment to the common good."
For this reason: "By putting homosexual unions on a legal plane analogous to that of marriage and the family, the State acts arbitrarily and in contradiction with its duties."
The homosexual union should not receive legal recognition, as it contradicts the common good and is in fact intrinsically unjust. "Because married couples ensure the succession of generations and are therefore eminently within the public interest, civil law" should grant them, and them alone, "institutional recognition."
"Homosexual unions, on the other hand, do not need specific attention from the legal standpoint since they do not exercise this function for the common good."
While homosexuals--as persons--should enjoy rights as persons and citizens and so have a right--along with all other citizens--to protect their authentic rights and their personal goods in matters of common interest with society as a whole, it is "gravely unjust to sacrifice the common good and just laws on the family in order to protect personal goods that can and must be guaranteed in ways that do not harm the body of society."
However, to support laws legitimizing homosexual unions, to vote for such laws, to enjoy the protection of such laws, to relish in such laws--and this is Barney Frank par excellence--is by definition "harmful to the common good," and is therefore, in each and every instance, "gravely immoral."
The voice of reason and the voice of the Church whose teachings on human sexuality are based upon the natural moral law, were, in a more sane day, stated in some humorous doggerel penned by Hillaire Belloc.
The world is full of double beds
And most delightful maidenheads,
Which being so, there's no excuse
For sodomy of self-abuse.
The doggerel aside, let us assume for the sake of argument that Ryan is a kettle, a devotee of Ayn Rand and an enemy of the common good. (A position, by the way, of which I am highly uncertain.) Barney Frank is without question a pot, a devotee of homosexual unions who advances them with unmatched zeal. Barney Frank railing against Ryan is a perfect instantiation of the American idiom, "the pot calling the kettle black."
And here, let us invoke some more doggerel, though alas not that of Belloc:
Oho!" said the pot to the kettle;
"You are dirty and ugly and black!
Sure no one would think you were metal,
Except when you're given a crack."
"Not so! not so!" kettle said to the pot;
"'Tis your own dirty image you see;
For I am so clean - without blemish or blot -
That your blackness is mirrored in me."
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Andrew M. Greenwell is an attorney licensed to practice law in Texas, practicing in Corpus Christi, Texas. He is married with three children. He maintains a blog entirely devoted to the natural law called Lex Christianorum. You can contact Andrew at agreenwell@harris-greenwell.com.
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How can Barney Frank ever have been elected in the first place? He is not Congress material. That is not the kind of representative I would ever want. What is wrong with voters in Massachusetts? I don't think I ever plan to even visit there. How far from the common good are they in electing such a person repeatedly. Guillty as charged.
Barney Frank is a national disgrace. He doesn't have a single moral fiber in his whole body. What's worse than him is the people who voted for him over the years. It takes an immoral people to vote for an immoral politician.
Barney Frank. Does anyone take him seriously? Blessings...
Wrong choice of photo to head the article.
I'm having nightmares of one day seeing on TV America's presidential couple, President & Mr Harold and Steven Smith, having dinner hosted by her Majesty Queen Elizabeth during an official visit by the US president and HIS husband to the UK. May God continue to protect us, our children, and grandchildren from moral decadence.
Stuff in this article reminds me that evil wants to look good and wants good to look bad.
May God, I pray, have mercy on us and on our world.
Barney Frank is such a repulsive person. He has ended up without one saving grace. I guess that is what a lifetime of lies and perversion lead a person to. What a disgusting way to end ones life. Of course he airs his lies and craziness on the Al Sharpton show, they're two amoral peas in a pod. Anyone with right reasoning should know never to listen to them. Seems as though the democrat party has completely fallen off the cliff. I came from a democrat family and was a democrat till about 20 yrs. ago until I began to face the fact that it is the party of hypocrisy, lies and all sorts of perversion. Most of my family are still democrats and don't have a civil word for me. They are easily the most intolerant people I know if you differ with them yet they tolerate every kind of perversion and call it good. They are ending up pretty sadly also as they long ago lost their Catholic faith. I still have mine, thank God and I am certainly not a democrat, thank God for that too. I could never reconcile the true teachings of the Church with the party platform of the democrat party and I have every intention of remaining a good Catholic. My Faith is the most important thing to me.
What a disgusting picture, we don't look at this website to see pictures like that.
This is Un-Conventional Marriage. Barney and His partner are representative of a un-conventional marriage. A Conventional marriage is a 1 man to 1 woman marriage. Un-Conventional marriage is for alternate life style individuals. Un-conventional marriage has no specific definition. The Mirriam-Webster on line Dictionary has already redefined marriage as between opposite or same sex couples. This is wrong because the entire matter is still in debate,as same sex marriage is trendy thinking at best,not the actual understanding of marriage,as most people on the planet learned it,when young,as being between a man and a woman. Hitlers Germany changed the meaning of words to indoctrinate the youth to accept that not all people were equal with an equal humanity,that insured equal human rights and the right to life. Jews ,homosexuals,Catholics and certain other to be determined,undesirables were subjects for scientific experimentation then for extermination. Jews were taught to the young to be no better than the worst animal. When the basic meaning of a word is changed,especially a basic meaning,than that is the violation of the basic human rights that govern all people. Lies must never be taught as absolute truth. It is a lie to change the basic meaning of a word to force an agenda like so called"Gay marriage". Any government body loses the respect and the common trust of the governed,when it chooses to change the the meaning of something,so that the lie is the agenda that the governed must accept as the truth.
Either go with God or with Mammon, either say Yea or Nay, beat not about the bush, in terms of Gay behavior weather acting individually falling into unions, even unto its pride . It is sin, trying to define it in legal terms through strange names like 'Rights" to gain acceptance but in the truth, called to come out of that, for unto Sodom & Gomorrah God did to give any chance for it to be least accepted ,even unto having a soft corner through sentimentalism to Lots wife becoming salt, but utterly destroyed it & to think He will accept it now is to a strong delusion, for they believe not the truth, clearly to the Prophecy. Today the supporters of "Gay attitudes" in what ever form, even through their "Sentimentalism " called 'Appeasing the Sin" (for people like Barney to say his gay behavior turned into an attitude, from young but for his heart's hard hardness in the rebellion against the truth of God hiding behind Paganism & Atheism)) can take a cue from that pillar of salt to the greater salt of Sodom. Hell.