The Illinois House of Representatives voted to legalize same-sex marriage, and Pope Francis's recent comments about homosexuality may have played a small but significant role, reports suggest. At least one “Catholic” lawmaker cited the Pope's statement as she explained her recent decision, and Speaker of the House Michael Madigan, also a Catholic, used the Pope's words to articulate his own reasons for supporting the bill. State Rep. Linda Chapa LaVia (D), who had spent much of the summer undecided, voted for the bill, telling The Chicago Tribune, “As a Catholic follower of Jesus and the Pope, Pope Francis, I am clear that our Catholic religious doctrine has at its core love, compassion, and justice for all people.” And House Speaker Madigan (D) perverted the Pope's words in The Tribune, adding a legal twist: “For those that just happen to be gay – living in a very harmonious, productive relationship but illegal – who am I to judge that they should be illegal?”
On a very personal note: How dare these so called Catholics twist and pervert the words of the Holy Father to meet their own political ends. They are all downright lying. In fact, the Pope never uttered a single word that would contradict or overturn the Catholic Church’s instruction that homosexuality is “objectively disordered” and that all those who suffer with same-sex attraction are called to a life of chastity. Nowhere in the Catechism, or anywhere in our 2000 years of sacred tradition, is homosexuality ever even slightly approved of (CCC #2357-59.) What the Holy Father was saying, is that we simply need to Love our gay brothers and sisters and certainly not condemn them. And, I have already written about this at great length; see links below:
As for these power-hungry politicians, they will one day have a great deal of blood on their hands. For, how many lost, searching, and unknowing gay men and women will listen to their disgusting inventions, and follow them straight into the darkness of hell. My heart goes out to my gay brothers, as I was once one of them: desperately searching for anyone who would affirm an illusion that we were not indeed broken. And, those Illinois “Catholics” are not the enlightened and compassionate humanitarians that they so proudly think they are. Yet, as I am struggling to be charitable towards these people, I find it extremely difficult, for we live in a blessed age when anyone can open up the Catechism and read simply and plainly what the Church teaches. Now, their actions are inexcusable. Truly, they are the descendants of Judas: selling out the Savior for a pocket of change.