The homosexual propaganda film Brokeback Mountain, as well as winning three Oscars over the weekend, has shown itself as an adept tool for outing 'gay sympathisers' within the Catholic Church. Many appear to be queuing up to outdo each another in applauding this sodomite propaganda film.
• First, the director for the USCCB Office for Film and Broadcasting Harry Forbes gushed over Brokeback saying, "Director Ang Lee tells the story with a sure sense of time and place, and presents the narrative in a way that is more palatable than would have been thought possible.”
• Also, a prominent Dominican Leader, Tom Condon, student master for St. Martin de Porres Province of the Dominicans, lauded the film as “an engrossing story, a plea for tolerance, and a sad, emotional film that will touch anyone who has ever been in love.”
• Not long after, the liberal associate editor of Canada’s largest Catholic newspaper – the archdiocese of Toronto’s Catholic Register, extolled the films portrayal of the homosexual acts saying, “When the gay cowboy lovers first discover a way to be authentic with each other - truthful about their basic sexual attractions and the source of their happiness in each other - they achieve a resemblance to truth itself."
• Not to be outdone, the new Archbishop of San Francisco - whose installation was appreciatively received by the homosexual community - described the film as “very powerful.”
• The latest example has 'Father' John Allan Loftus, S.J. the Director of the Jesuit Urban Center at the Boston Church of the Immaculate Conception recommending a “Brokeback Lent.”
In his homily for Ash Wednesday, March 1, Loftus urged congregants to watch the film. “I suspect many in this community have already seen Brokeback Mountain,” he said. “If not see it; if you have, see it again and reflect on the consequences of not being interiorly free, the consequences of not knowing who you really are and want to become, the tragic consequences and subsequent devastation that comes from only living in a ‘pretend’ world.”
Loftus proposed that sexual sin is not real sin, whereas not giving in to one's desires is sin. “For too many of us, what we think of as ‘our sinfulness,’ our not yet even being the full human beings we are created to become, remains a paltry and cheap catalogue of peccadillos, usually having something to do with sex or not being ‘charitable’ toward each other. Those so-called ‘sins’ are hardly worth setting aside 40 days each year to ponder; those sins of yours or mine are hardly worth mentioning, really.”
Loftus continued, “There is something much bigger at stake here than my petty sinfulness, my unkindness, my frustrated sex life, or my infuriating love life. The sin that is before us always is our refusal to grow into the freedom for which we were born.”
A smallish chorus of approval, I think. Five people.
Incidentally, a friend who, against his better judgment, was talked into seeing the film gave me his opinion. He said the message is not pro-gay at all, but definitely anti-gay: the film apparently seeks to demonstrate that the gay lifestyle leads only to unhappiness and lack of fulfilment.
So maybe Ang Lee has actually made a "homophobic" movie.
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