Date: Mon, 28 Nov 1994 09:54:59 -0500 (GMT-0500) From: "Thomas W. Holt Jr." Subject: Homosexuality and the Catholic Church: A letter to the Editor of the Peterboroug (fwd) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 23 Nov 1994 08:27:52 GMT From: Robert Riley To: Multiple recipients of list GLB-NEWS Subject: Homosexuality and the Catholic Church: A letter to the Editor of the Peterboroug Following, is a Letter to the Editor, that appeared in the November 18th, 1994 edition of The Examiner (which is the newspaper from the city of Peterborough, Ontario, Canada -- population 65,000). If you are interested in responding, you can fax your letter to: The Editor The Examiner P.O. box 3890 Peterborough, ON K9J 8L4 Facsimile: (705) 743-4581 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SMALL NUMBER With regard to the front page article entitled "Catholic Church told to confront thorny issues" (Examiner Oct. 30) -- Who are these people who call themselves the Coalition of Concerned Canadian Catholics (4Cs)? They have no credibility with most of the Catholics I know. They constitute only one-thirtieth of one per cent of the Catholic population of the Diocese of Peterborough or 20 people out of approximately 60,000. A rather insignificant number. The gay issue seemed to receive the most prominence in your article. On that issue alone, John Martyn and Mary Baier seem to be contradicting each other. However, they did agree on one thing, and that was bashing the Roman Catholic Church. Well, that is not new either. Two thousand years ago, when Pontius Pilate asked the people what he should do with Jesus Christ, many of Jesus's followers screamed, "Crucify him! Crucify Him!" Are we seeing history repeat itself? I wonder if Mary Baier, the group coordinator, who is so concerned about the gays, has ever read the objectives of the gay community, according to Michael Swift, a gay revolutionary from Connecticut, in The Gay Community News (Feb. 15, 1987): "We shall sodomize your sons, emblems of your feeble masculinity, of your shallow dreams and vulgar lies. We shall seduce them in your schools, in your dormitories, in your gymnasiums, in bathrooms, in your houses of congress, wherever men are with men together. Your sons shall become our minions and do our bidding. They shall be recast in our image. They shall come to crave us and adore us." The author of that article also outlined the following gay agenda: abolishing heterosexual marriages, making sex between males _di rigueur_, exiling those who oppose the gay agenda, abolishing the family unit, placing children in the care of the homosexually wise, closing all churches which condemn the gay and lesbian lifestyle, making homosexuality a condition of true nobility. Are those the people whom Mary Baier claims are being marginalized by the Catholic Church? FRANK LEAHY Sophia Street Peterborough, ON