Our Kids Need Truth, Not Confusion

The world views authentic Catholicism as hateful and intolerant for supporting God’s standards in regard to homosexuality and so-called transgenderism.  Especially in the month of June when so-called “pride month” saturates society, it takes fortitude to be counter-cultural.

Christians need to be prepared at all times, and especially in June, for the secular culture to call them bigoted, intolerant, or even use a made-up word, “homophobic,” to shame and silence. Regrettably, too many Christ followers act like the scared Peter who denied Jesus three times when they won’t speak up for God’s plans regarding sexuality. Whether acting cowardly or being ignorantly complicit, too many Catholic clerics and lay people these days won’t raise their voices and state that same-sex marriages are not legitimate, that the only acceptable form of sexual relations is between a married husband and wife, and that people who think they can change their sex are mentally ill.

It is because the majority of Christians have been cowardly keeping their mouths shut that depraved sexuality has grown in both its participants and its supporters. Not enough priests at the pulpit, Catholic school teachers in the classrooms, and parents at the dinner table are proclaiming the truth regarding the dangers of sin and the culture’s lies surrounding human sexuality.

The so-called LGBTQIA2S+ movement stole the rainbow symbol. God made the rainbow as a symbol of His covenant with us. Evil people have since made a rainbow flag not merely the symbol of sexual diversity but as the central icon of a new “religion.” The so-called gay community created their “religion” so they could revel in broadcasting their sexual appetites. “Gay pride” was the nickname they gave their so-called religion. It is not a coincidence that pride is the most prominent of the seven deadly sins. 

Feelings Over Facts

People being hypersensitive about not wanting to hurt others’ feelings contribute much to this lack of publicly declaring the truth. Too many in the Church – from the clergy to the laity – appear to rather have the approval of the world instead of the approval of the Lord. Thus, they would never indicate the truth – that conflating pride and sodomy with love is the work of the devil.

Weak Catholics and other Christians who place progressive causes above Scripture and God’s commandments often justify their faulty principles by inventing their own version of Jesus. They suppose Jesus to be like a 1960’s hippie who is a conflict-free appeaser who flashes the peace-sign and unquestionably accepts everyone without judging their actions. Faux believers envision their Lord being fine with attending a so-called pride parade.

The reality is today’s politically-correct and secular standards run counter to many of Jesus’s statements from 2,000 years ago. He did not excuse or support sexual-sinners but confronted them, telling them to repent and sin no more. Hippie-Jesus followers gloss over the fact that Christ spoke the truth about various sexual sins, such as these examples:

• He told an adulteress to “Go and sin no more” (John 8:11);
• Jesus said, “Whoever divorces his wife and marries another, commits adultery against her; and if she divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery” (Mark 10:11-12);
• Jesus also reiterated that our Father purposely created us as two unique sexes who are called to marry and reproduce, when He said, “Have you not read that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female? For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one” (Matthew 19:4-5).

Furthermore, a pseudo-Christians’ version of a God who loves exclusively by affirming all people and all actions nonjudgmentally is purely fictional. The reality is our Heavenly Father caused millions to die in a flood due to their sins and burned down the towns of Sodom and Gomorrah due to homosexual immorality. As the Son, He wildly smashed and destroyed the tables in the temple and angrily called people, ‘hypocrites,’ ‘blindfools,’ ‘children of hell,’ ‘brood of vipers,’ and ‘serpents.’

Truthful-Compassion Over Misplaced-Compassion

Both God the Father’s and God the Son’s love contains varied attributes, and one fundamental one is a type of “tough love” toward sinners. God desires the salvation of His children more than He desires popularity and appeasement. Our Lord calls us to love, and this includes compassionate concern for others’ eternal souls due to the sins and errors into which they fall. We show authentically Christian concern when we reject the falsehoods the secular culture pedals and correct the confusion that has permeated others’ disordered or unenlightened minds.

The other side calls a person unchristian for not going along with backing disordered sexuality. Yet an authentic Christian recognizes that real charity must be grounded in the truth. One can have compassion without lying to those who pretend that all types of sexual actions are perfectly fine as long as they’re consensual. Compassion does not mean to agree with those who deny God created the sexual act to solely be between a man and woman or to capitulate to the delusion that marriage can be between two adults of the same sex. That would be misplaced-compassion.

To love our neighbor is our duty. This includes if our neighbor is same-sex attracted. But this caring love must not manifest itself in throwing a parade for their choices, but in calling people away from sexual sins and toward repentance and conversion towards Christ.  Instead of minimizing the grave nature of sexual sins, Catholics must magnify what the Church teaches. Homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered and are always violations of divine and natural law. One must not pay no mind to such acts, approve of them, and definitely not celebrate them, ala “pride month.” 

Are You Calling God a Liar?

Confused Christians who join in the so-called gay pride movement, endorse so-called gay marriage, and believe in so-called gender transitioning have separated themselves from God. They are arrogantly thinking more of themselves and less of their Lord whom they are basically calling a liar.

Nothing could be more heartbreaking to faithful Christian parents than to realize their children have gotten seduced by the lies of the world and are basically saying, “To hell with God!” Propagandized by the world, a majority of today’s youth embrace a false version of reality. They have been led to believe these lies which are the opposite to what God commanded:

• God didn’t decide one’s sex at conception;
• Intimate relations with members of the same-sex are natural and good;
• Homosexual acts are not inherently sinful.

“Love is love” is the culture’s current mantra to prove sexual depravity is acceptable. That catchphrase is a lie. The accurate mantra we Christians should be reciting is, “Truth is love, and Jesus is the Truth.” And when discussing truths, we must support a basic, moral truth about human sexuality. Our Almighty Father created sexual acts to be an ordered, part of a lifelong, mutually exclusive union between one man and one woman, open to the gift of new life.

Children and young adults who buy into the so-called LGBTQIA2S+ belief system are only hearing from the echo chamber of the liberal news media, immoral Hollywood, corrupted social media, and even the public school system on how sweet and special so-called gay marriage and gay sex is. And although June is the prominent month for promoting sexual debauchery, every month in today’s society offers some dose of celebrating sexual sins. Youngsters need to hear from mom and dad – this month and all year long!

Awaken Children’s Minds and Souls

Parents must destroy their kids’ belief in the “love is love” propaganda line by awakening their minds and souls. Otherwise, children will continue to believe that loving a so-called transgender person or a homosexual means supporting and even applauding their destructive behavior. 

How do parents awaken their sons’ and daughters’ minds and souls? They start by teaching that for thousands of years society considered fornication, adultery, sodomy, masturbation, and homosexuality as acts against God. It was only in the past few generations that these forms of unchastity became accepted by the world.

They then can acknowledge to their youngsters that the call to abstain from unmarried sex can be a struggle for many, starting in puberty and extending through adulthood. Not only can it feel physically and emotionally difficult to refrain from disordered sexual acts, but it means one must have the strength to be counter-cultural. After all, it runs contrary to live a chaste life in our current culture which revels in unchastity.

Parents should discuss as well with their children how the Church promotes the truth about human sexuality. Our sexuality and sexual acts are beautiful gifts from God. He wants us to live in accordance with His plans for chastity if we are to find the true joy that comes with fulfilling God’s call for our lives.

The Birds and the Bees

After all of this teaching and discussing, it is then time for mom and dad to get blunt. Once a youth has experienced puberty, with their major organs and body systems maturing and their body becoming capable of sexual reproduction, he or she needs “the talk.” In previous generations, “the talk” was solely to explain how a man and woman performed the sexual act. In the modern world, “the talk” now must include explaining why homosexual sexual acts are a violation of not just Biblical law but natural law.

Teenagers need to hear from their parents that if one goes along with the “love is love” mantra they are actually agreeing that anal sex is normal, delightful, and welcome. Older children need to hear the unhealthy, vulgar reality of male homosexual acts, because the culture only talks in generality about how sweet it is for men to love men. Mothers and fathers need to be more vocal than the lies the culture directs at their kids. 

In “the talk,” parents must stress that males were never intended to have sex with other males, and likewise females weren’t intended to be with other females. God perfectly built humans’ reproductive organs. Ordered and functioning in an obvious way, only the man-in-woman sexual act produces a baby. Similarly, God built the digestive system to function in a particular way with defecation a necessary process. The anus is designed to eliminate a waste material known as feces. Items are not meant to enter the anus, only to leave it.

Speaking Lies or Not Willing to Speak Are Both Harmful

Faithful Catholics must speak out – to their children and to lukewarm or naive Christians – about the culture’s lies surrounding sexuality. Society finds itself in a degenerate hole today because yesterday not enough clergy and lay Catholics spoke up about the truth of sexual disorders. Thus through either commission or omission, weak or scared Catholics have neglected to care about others’ souls and minds.

In the case of our younger generation, parents remaining silent have at best led to their kids’ confusion and at worst have dangerously modeled to them that it is fine to go along with the sexual sins the culture promotes. A basic principle for Catholic families to follow is that admonishing sin is often necessary because we love our neighbors and don’t want to see them go against God.

Our Lord calls us to stand firm, not deviate from His truth, and not condone any activity opposed to His Church. God’s divine truth can never change, and the Church and its members can never cooperate with or approve of sin. 

Caring for their children’s minds and souls means parents not allowing their youngsters to make up “their truths.” Instead, faithful mothers and fathers must help their kids realize that love and truth are not in opposition to each other, especially in the area of sexual morality.