The 'Two Step' of the New Censors

Catholic Christians insist that the Natural Law can be known by all men and women through the exercise of reason. Further that it presents truths which should inform our life together.

CHESAPEAKE, Va. (Catholic Online) - I offer the response I wrote to Dr. Hudson's well written piece. I sent it into "Inside Catholic" in response to a comment where one of the readers indicated that language in the proposed legislation would exempt religious speech:

The "two Step" of the New Censors

Herein lies the real danger. The "Two Step" approach of the new censors.Is this a tactic of new "Cultural Revolutionaries"? I am afraid it is becoming just that.Let us consider one example of how such legislation could be used against our Church.

The Catholic position on homosexual sexual practices and the growing efforts to undermine true marriage through what we should all begin to call the "Homosexual Equivalency Movement" - the movement which wants to call what can never be a marriage a marriage and then use the Police Power of the State to force all of us to do the same - is rooted in the Natural Law which binds all men and women!

This Catholic position is a "truth" claim in an age which was properly called a "dictatorship of Relativism" by then Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger before he assumed the Chair of Peter. He has repeated the phrase several times since then.

Yes, this position is confirmed by Revelation, as is evident in the Sacred scripture and the Tradition. However, Catholic Christians insist that the Natural Law can be known by all men and women through the exercise of reason.Further that it presents truths which should inform our life together.

Also, Catholic Christians insist that these objective truths, revealed in the Natural Law, are the foundation of any truly just society and inform a true humanism which will help us all to live together in peace, promoting human floruishing. In so doing, Catholic Christians are simply following the example of people like St Paul in his letter to the Romans and the unbroken teaching of the early Church.

So, regarding your taking comfort in language such as found in the legislation which led you to say "...you can preach that the Bible says homosexuality is wrong". I suggest that it is at best naieve. Further it fails to understand the catholic position.

I further insist that the "two step" is already underway. First, relegate our truth claims concerning marriage and the family founded upon it to simply being a "religious position." Then require that our truth claims be confined within our Church Walls or we will face the Police power of the State.

We need to wake up! There is a Cultural Revolution brewing with two conflicting visions of the human person, human freedom, human flourishing and marriage and the family founded upon it as the first cell of a truly just society.

The real possibility looms that today's Catholic positions on matters of imporatnce for all men and women, including those of other faiths or no faith at all, will be censored from the public debate or, worse yet, made the subject of a new form of censorship. Remember, the early Christians were not persecuted for "religion" but as "enemies of the State" and for "hatred of the human race".

The implications of the address by our President to the "Human Rights campaign" last Saturday night in Washington D.C. are ominous. The experience of our brethren in Canada and some other Nations are equally so. All of which Deal's article aptly addresses. This is cause for a serious reflection and discussion.

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