Author: Pete Vere

One of my friends at Catholic Exchange emailed me the following interesting article that recently appeared in the National Post: We built an altar, but will they come? Here’s a couple of hi-lights:

The Field of Theory is landscaped and ready. Where are the players? The answer is: The whole marriage-for-gays movement is a construct of the liberal imagination, a naked Emperor on parade, and the cheering throng — blindfolded by choice — are the activist judges, timorous politicians and anti-establishment intellectuals who have co-opted what should have been a national debate on an issue whose unknown social consequences have not been considered in the rush to eradicate history.

The gay-marriage-rights issue has been fabricated out of whole cloth by social revolutionaries who have run out of traditional social institutions to mow down. The fact is: The overwhelming majority of heterosexuals want to marry because in doing so they are joining a historical stream and are reinforcing links to the generation that came before as well as affirming the one to follow. The overwhelming majority of gay men do not want to marry because, by biological definition, they are not in the historical stream. Unlike heterosexuals, every generation of homosexuals must re-invent itself. This is why the spectacle of a gay marriage ceremony will never have the solemn impact or underlying meaning of a real marriage.

Unbelievable, especially after the situation that has plagued the Church over the past year. Paul Walfield at Enter Stage Right offers some excellent commentary:

“After the verdict, the ACLU attorney who represented the pedophile, according to the NWI Times said, ‘These cases are symptomatic of what sort of discrimination follows people around.’ Imagine that, convicted pedophiles who cruise city parks in search of children are ‘discriminated’ against because decent people who want to protect their children, get a restraining order to stop one in particular who literally admitted to his vile intentions.”

“The pedophile was not banned from the park because of his thoughts, but rather because of his past deeds, known predilection, failure of treatment, and his actively going to the park to pursue his depraved compulsion. Yet, the ACLU and two Clinton appointees to the Court chose to narrow the case to being about the ‘thought police.’ And while no one wants to create an atmosphere of fear regarding our thoughts, it is no stretch whatsoever to simply give deferential treatment to our children in cases like this.”

Since I’m over-exposed as a writer, I thought you all might find it refreshing to read someone else for a change. The latest issue of Bread of Life, a small Catholic magazine that appeals to the charismatic movement in Canada, features pieces by my dad and John Pacheco (Godfather to one of our daughters). (I also wrote a short piece for the print edition, but it wasn’t featured on-line.) You can read it here.