So this is how liberty dies... with thunderous applause
—Revenge of the Sith
(This is what happens when you try to post the linked article to Facebook)
An article was written on a Catholic blog concerning a Catholic couple being sued for refusing to allow their business to host a reception for a Homosexual "marriage." It's an excerpt from a longer article found here.
The couple stated:
“We have never refused rooms or dining or employment to gays or lesbians,” they wrote. “Many of our guests have been same-sex couples. We welcome and treat all people with respect and dignity. We do not however, feel that we can offer our personal services wholeheartedly to celebrate the marriage between same-sex couples because it goes against everything that we as Catholics believe in.”
So it's come to this. A Catholic who tries to keep to his faith and stand against what he believes to be immoral can now be sued for standing up against the state. I'm sorry but this sort of a thing is against everything I ever was proud about to be an American. Nazis can march on Skokie, Illinois. Klansmen can burn a cross on public land. Artists can show desecrated religious icons and all is well. But let a Christian seek to make a stand for what we believe and this is what happens.
We should pray for our nation, that the courts and the lawmakers see this and recognize that if this is allowed to go forward, we can no longer consider ourselves to be a free nation, but rather we can be said to be at best partially authoritarian.
It is also alarming that this sort of acceptance of losing our freedoms spreads further. Facebook censors this article from being posted. It is acceptable for people to post anti-Catholic material from pro-homosexual links, but this – which is simply a news article – is blocked because it is now determined we are not free to speak out on what is right or wrong. Think of it. This is not a Fred Phelps kind of article using slurs against homosexuals. It merely reports that Catholics are being sued for standing up for their faith. So it seems that speaking out against immoral acts is no longer permissible in society and perhaps it will soon be forbidden by law as well.
It is a sad thing. Our Bill of Rights once gave us the freedoms to do what our consciences obligated us to do. Now, we have favored classes which may never be questioned and certain beliefs that may never be questioned.
Yes, I know that Jesus did tell us:
22 Blessed are you when people hate you, and when they exclude and insult you, and denounce your name as evil on account of the Son of Man.
23 Rejoice and leap for joy on that day! Behold, your reward will be great in heaven. For their ancestors treated the prophets in the same way. (Luke 6:22-23)
However, that does not mean those who do this to us do right to persecute us.
Very well. I will follow the example of St. Thomas More and be faithful to my nation insofar as my nation does not ask me to disobey my God, for I must obey God instead of man if the laws of the nation are in conflict with Him, and I pray I will not falter if God calls on me to suffer for my faith and that He give me the grace to press on. Perhaps I worry for nothing. I am nobody important. But then, neither was this couple.
Just know that the injustice is not being done by the Catholic couple with a Vermont inn. It is being done by those who would deny us the right to follow our conscience and obey God.
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