Les cathos sortent les griffes

Certains catholiques en ont assez de prendre des coups pour les prêtres qui ont fauté avec des mineurs, ce que la presse désigne sous le terme générique de « crimes pédophiles ».

En réalité, ces actes ne concernent que très marginalement des enfants, donc les qualifier de pédophilmes est un non sens.

Un non sens ?

Pas tant que cela. Le journaliste catholique Michael Voris accuse le lobby homosexuel des médias d'user et d'abuser du terme « pédophile » pour éviter de reconnaître que trois victimes sur quatre sont des adolescents mâles victmes de prêtres homosexuels incapables de respecter leurs voeux.

Il n'est pas nécessaire d'en appeler à un lobby. L'autocensure suffit. Je suis bien placé pour savoir que les médias évitent pour des raisons commerciales tout conflit avec des homosexuels.

Un exemple entre mille. J'ai récemment réalisé une couverture pour un grand éditeur. L'auteur et le directeur de collection avaient choisi un titre dans lequel le mot homosexualité apparaissait dans une connotation ambigue qui pouvait apparaître comme négative.

Le distributeur a immédiatement réagi en demandant que le titre et la couverture soient changés.

Interrogé, il a répondu que tout livre critique de l'homosexualité est boycotté par les chefs de rayon des grands magasins ou les acheteurs des grandes surfaces. Face à cette perspective l'éditeur a capitulé.

Le plus triste est que le livre ne critiquait pas les homosexuels mais il cherchait à provoquer un débat.

Un bien triste jour pour la liberté d'expression en Europe

Le pasteur baptiste Elder Scott devant son temple. Nous conseillons vivement à ce gibier de potence de ne pas se rendre en Angleterre y prêcher la bonne parole. Il risque de se retrouver derrière les barreaux. Une photo de Schmoe Scott.

La France est un des pays développés où la liberté d'expression est la plus restreinte. Non seulement par la pression sociale ou le terrorisme intellectuel, mais tout simplement par la loi. Dans ce beau pays, le simple fait d'exprimer publiquement des opinions peut conduire directement à la case prison. Les récentes expériences vécues par le journaliste Eric Zemmour en témoignent.

Pourtant, un article du Telegraph de ce matin nous prouve que nos voisins anglais nous suivent de très près quand ils ne nous précèdent pas d'une tête.

Dale McAlpine, prêcheur baptiste faisant du proslytisme sur la voie publique a été arrêté par la police pour avoir mentionné à une passante que l'homosexualité est un péché.

Après avoir entendu que la Bible liste l'homosexualité parmi les conduites répréhensibles, la passante s'est empressée de rejoindre un policier qui par hasard se trouve être homosexuel et agent de liaison entre la police et les communautés gaies, lesbiennes, bisexuelles et transexuelles.

L'agent de police au titre du quota a interpellé à son tour le prédicateur et appelé des renforts lesquels ont arêté et inculpé le baptiste pour atteinte à l'ordre public.

Je suis enclin à penser que ce courageux paladin des communautés gaies, lesbiennes, bisexuelles et transexuelles se serait bien gardé d'intervenir si au lieu d'être baptiste, le prédicateur avait été musulman.

Christian preacher arrested for saying homosexuality is a sin

A Christian street preacher was arrested and locked in a cell for telling a passer-by that homosexuality is a sin in the eyes of God.


Dale McAlpine was charged with causing “harassment, alarm or distress” after a homosexual police community support officer (PCSO) overheard him reciting a number of “sins” referred to in the Bible, including blasphemy, drunkenness and same sex relationships.

The 42-year-old Baptist, who has preached Christianity in Wokington, Cumbria for years, said he did not mention homosexuality while delivering a sermon from the top of a stepladder, but admitted telling a passing shopper that he believed it went against the word of God.

Police officers are alleging that he made the remark in a voice loud enough to be overheard by others and have charged him with using abusive or insulting language, contrary to the Public Order Act.
Mr McAlpine, who was taken to the police station in the back of a marked van and locked in a cell for seven hours on April 20, said the incident was among the worst experiences of his life.
“I felt deeply shocked and humiliated that I had been arrested in my own town and treated like a common criminal in front of people I know," he said.
“My freedom was taken away on the hearsay of someone who disliked what I said, and I was charged under a law that doesn't apply.”
Christian campaigners have expressed alarm that the Public Order Act, introduced in 1986 to tackle violent rioters and football hooligans, is being used to curb religious free speech.
Sam Webster, a solicitor-advocate for the Christian Institute, which is supporting Mr McAlpine, said it is not a crime to express the belief that homosexual conduct is a sin.
“The police have a duty to maintain public order but they also have a duty to defend the lawful free speech of citizens,” he said.

Sam Adams, le policier qui a fait arrêter le prêcheur baptiste. Plus de détails dans un article du Daily Mail.

“Case law has ruled that the orthodox Christian belief that homosexual conduct is sinful is a belief worthy of respect in a democratic society."
Mr McAlpine was handing out leaflets explaining the Ten Commandments or offering a “ticket to heaven” with a church colleague on April 20, when a woman came up and engaged him in a debate about his faith.
During the exchange, he says he quietly listed homosexuality among a number of sins referred to in 1 Corinthians, including blasphemy, fornication, adultery and drunkenness.
After the woman walked away, she was approached by a PCSO who spoke with her briefly and then walked over to Mr McAlpine and told him a complaint had been made, and that he could be arrested for using racist or homophobic language.
The street preacher said he told the PCSO: “I am not homophobic but sometimes I do say that the Bible says homosexuality is a crime against the Creator”.
He claims that the PCSO then said he was homosexual and identified himself as the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender liaison officer for Cumbria police. Mr McAlpine replied: “It’s still a sin.”
The preacher then began a 20 minute sermon, in which he says he mentioned drunkenness and adultery, but not homosexuality. Three regular uniformed police officers arrived during the address, arrested Mr McAlpine and put him in the back of a police van.
At the station, he was told to empty his pockets and his mobile telephone, belt and shoes were confiscated. Police took fingerprints, a palm print, a retina scan and a DNA swab.
He was later interviewed, charged under Sections 5 (1) and (6) of the Public Order Act and released on bail on the condition that he did not preach in public.
Mr McAlpine pleaded not guilty at a preliminary hearing on Friday at Wokingham magistrates court and is now awaiting a trial date.
The Public Order Act, which outlaws the unreasonable use of abusive language likely to cause distress, has been used to arrest religious people in a number of similar cases.
Harry Hammond, a pensioner, was convicted under Section 5 of the Act in 2002 for holding up a sign saying “Stop immorality. Stop Homosexuality. Stop Lesbianism. Jesus is Lord” while preaching in Bournemouth.
Stephen Green, a Christian campaigner, was arrested and charged in 2006 for handing out religious leaflets at a Gay Pride festival in Cardiff. The case against him was later dropped.
Cumbria police said last night that no one was available to comment on Mr McAlpine’s case.

Le judaïsme américain se convertit

Manifestation en faveur du mariage homosexuel à laquelle participent
des employés de l'association féministe juive Jewish Women's Archives.

Forward, le magazine chic du judaïsme américain publie un article fort révélateur de Rebecca Spence sur les récentes évolutions du courant « conservateur » du judaïsme américain. Après quelques années d'une résistance pas très farouche, un grand nombre de rabbins affiliés à ce mouvement ont finalement accepté de donner le feu vert, non seulement aux rabbins homosexuels, mais aussi au mariage de personnes du même sexe.

Jeune féministe juive manifestant son appui au mariage homosexuel.

Los Angeles — In 2005, when a Jewish gay-marriage activist first pressed California rabbis to sign a statement supporting full marriage equality for gays and lesbians, only a handful of Conservative rabbis lent their names. Over the course of the past two months, however, more than a dozen Conservative rabbis here have signed on to a growing list of clergy who support gay marriage in the civil realm.

What changed in between was the December 2006 decision, or teshuvah, by the Conservative movement’s Committee on Jewish Law and Standards to allow gay and lesbian clergy and same-sex commitment ceremonies — a decision made after 15 years of rancorous argument about the issue. As a result of that long-simmering debate, observers note, Conservative rabbis, many of whom were previously uninformed on issues of gay rights in the civil sphere, did their homework and read up on the issues. Others who may have already supported gay marriage finally felt freed up to express their views publicly.

Le judaïsme américain a beaucoup de mal à résister aux idées ambiantes.

“Conservative rabbis might have been privately supportive of same-sex marriage, but they hadn’t been willing to step out,” said Denise Eger, rabbi of the gay and lesbian Reform synagogue Congregation Kol Ami, located in West Hollywood. “The teshuvah, for people who have held their own private opinions, especially West Coast rabbis, has empowered them to be able to speak more publicly.”

In California, anti-gay marriage activists under the banner of Protect Marriage are undertaking a robust campaign to put the California Marriage Protection Act, which would alter the state’s constitution to define marriage as between a man and a woman, on the November 2008 ballot. That proposition, if passed, would override all other legislative and judicial rulings in favor of same-sex marriage. Activists are seeking to collect at least 694,354 signatures — the number required to place a proposition on the ballot — by the state’s April 1 deadline. To date, they have raised more than $1 million for their organizing efforts. (In a related development, on March 4 the California Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a landmark lawsuit brought on behalf of same-sex couples suing the state of California for marriage rights. A decision in that case is expected within 90 days.)

Deux hommes, Marc et Jonathna, se marient dans une synagogue conservatrice. Le baiser rituel sous le dais nuptial.

Outside of California, 26 states have already passed similar constitutional amendments banning same-sex marriage. But nowhere beyond the borders of the Golden State have Jewish efforts to stem such ballot initiatives been as public or as organized, with the exception of Massachusetts.

Three years ago, an activist named Steve Krantz founded the L.A.-based Jews for Marriage Equality. Krantz, 60, was a member of Valley Beth Shalom, a 1,700-family Conservative synagogue located in Encino in the heavily Jewish San Fernando Valley. Krantz’s rabbi, Harold Schulweis, was one of the earliest Conservative voices to call for support of gay and lesbian rights; in 1992 he delivered a sermon calling for the full acceptance of gays and lesbians in Jewish life. Schulweis, however, was an anomaly among Conservative rabbis. Until recently, the bulk of Krantz’s support came from Reform rabbis, whose movement has long supported gay and lesbian clergy and same-sex unions. But the surprise these days is the number of Conservative rabbis joining their ranks.

Les deux époux, main dans la main, sous les applaudissements
de leurs familles et de leurs amis.

As of yet, Jews for Marriage Equality has corralled 92 rabbis to sign its clergy statement; 22 of them affiliated with the Conservative movement. The statement, a lengthy document affirming the right to same-sex civil marriage, calls on Jewish leaders to embrace gay and lesbian rights.

“Efforts to prevent civil marriage for gays and lesbians through legal means, such as state or federal Constitutional amendments that deprive them of the benefits and dreams others enjoy, are unjust and discriminatory…” the statement reads. “We as rabbis, cantors and community leaders committed to Jewish tradition urge all Jews to remember our heritage of justice and to recommit ourselves to not wavering on this holy principle.”

Le meilleur moment : la découpe du gateau.

In Massachusetts, an anti same-sex marriage amendment was roundly defeated in 2005, and again in 2007 at the state legislative level. Rabbi Menachem Creditor, a former Bay State Conservative rabbi who in June of last year became rabbi of Berkeley synagogue Congregation Netivot Shalom, helped organize rabbinic efforts to defeat the Massachusetts bill. Three years ago, 97 Massachusetts rabbis signed a public advertisement opposing the proposed legislation. But according to Creditor — who founded Keshet Rabbis, an organization of Conservative rabbis who support gay and lesbian equality — only seven of those signatories were Conservative. Following passage of the law committee decision in December 2006, Creditor said, many more Conservative rabbis signed their names.

Le rabbin Elliot Dorff de l'American Jewish University de Los Angeles a joué un grand rôle dans le changement d'attitude des rabbins en démontrant que l'orientation homosexuelle ne résultat pas d'un choix, mais plutôt s'impose génétiquement aux personnes. Des arguments comparables expliquent que la majorité des criminels récidivistes sont également conduits à délinquer en raison de leur particulière combinaison de gènes. Faut-il en déduire que les rabbins conservateurs américains vont abandonner le décalogue ?

Elliot Dorff, the rector of Los Angeles’s American Jewish University and a co-author of the rabbinic opinion that opened the doors for gay and lesbian clergy and same-sex unions in Conservative Judaism, said the scientific evidence that the opinion presented, showing that sexual orientation is not a choice, has been a key factor in swaying rabbis. Before the hard-fought opinion passed, Dorff said, it would have been far more difficult to convince Conservative rabbis to rally behind the cause of same-sex marriage.
“It would have been harder before the teshuvah was passed, simply because many Conservative rabbis were not aware of the scientific evidence we brought, and were not thinking about this issue at all,” he said. “What that debate did was put it on the front-burner.