It's "Celebrate One of the Seven Deadly Sins" Month again, and Jimmy-Boy Martin, LGBTQXYZ∞SJ, is flapping his gums as usual.
From One Mad Mom
The ever hopeful me always hopes James Martin, SJ will slither back under a rock or repent. I guess it’s been a disappointing month for him, though, so I guess he’s joining Bishop Michael Martin (just something about that surname, I guess) in powering forward just in case he’s shut down completely.
Can Catholics celebrate Pride Month? Yes, and here’s why.
Outreach Original James Martin, S.J. / June 2, 2025
For the LGBTQ person, pride is not about vanity but about human dignity.
This article was originally posted on June 1, 2022. It has been updated.
As if this wasn’t a spiritual face plant the first go around, he’s decided to update it. Maybe it’ll contain an ounce of Church teaching now? Probably not. Let’s just start off by saying that sodomy and masturbation are an affront to human dignity. Dressing in BDSM attire is an affront to human dignity. Parading naked around little children is an affront to human dignity (and abusive to the dignity of the child, which is deserving of a millstone if one listened to the Lord). Accepting your sin or disorder as a good is an affront to human dignity. You know what’s not an affront to human dignity? Truth. But let’s just ignore that.
Can Catholics celebrate Pride Month, when the LGBTQ community marks its place in society?
“Marking their place in society”??? Are we referring to the urinating dudes at the “Pride” parades apparently trying to mark their territories? And, again, doing it in front of children? It’s demonic, father.
Can Catholics celebrate the series of events that take place in June, during what is often now simply called “Pride”?
“The series of events”??? Please. Go ahead and google “Pride Parades”, people. Nothing is simple. It’s downright disgusting. I have to bleach my brain every time I research this stuff.
Can they do this when pride is one of the traditional seven deadly sins?
No. All done.
Isn’t it wrong to show pride?
“LGBTQ+ Pride” is always and everywhere wrong. For far too long we’ve had a month dedicated to the disordered lifestyle, dedicated to peoples’ personal sin. Thankfully it seems people are done being brow-beaten into accepting these “Pride” events.
First, it’s important to remember that there are (at least) two kinds of pride. The first is the satisfaction that can come from your own accomplishments. This can turn into vanity, which is something to avoid. That brand of pride says, “Look how great I am!” It’s the opposite of humility, a key virtue in the Christian life.
Umm…This is literally the “Pride” of which we are speaking. Only a proud person thinks that everyone needs to accept their disorder and sin. The same-sex attracted person humbling seeking God and His mercy doesn’t go to “Pride” parades. They go to Church. They seek to overcome their obstacles to that. They take up their cross. The rest? They demand we have “Pride Month.”
Humility reminds us that we are not the center of the universe and that our lives depend on God.
This is the OPPOSITE of what you teach. You teach that lives depend on acceptance of peoples’ actions. It does not.
This is the kind of humility Jesus speaks of in the Beatitudes when he says, “Blessed are the poor in spirit” (Mt. 5:3). So the first kind of pride can be a threat to humility, to discipleship and to the spiritual life overall.
Again, that’s the pride you promote.
But the second kind of pride is a consciousness of one’s own dignity. And that’s closer to what Pride Month is meant to be for the LGBTQ community: a recognition of the human dignity of a group of people who have, for centuries been, treated with contempt, rejection and violence.
There’s no dignity in sodomy, masturbation or any other kind of sin. Our dignity comes from God, not our disorder and sinful acts. You’re stealing knowledge away from people. You’re lying to them. You’re not recognizing their dignity as a child of God. You’re telling them to cut themselves off from Him. When you’re conscious of your dignity as God’s creation, you aim towards Heaven. That’s what we wish for all of us. What we have contempt and rejection of, or at least we should, is sin that keeps our friends and family from this goal. We also have contempt and rejection of the actions of the bad actors that promote that disorder and sin comes from God. (That would be you in case you didn’t get it.)
For the religious person, this month is also a reminder that LGBTQ people are beloved children of God.
Most religious people don’t need that reminder, but you apparently do, for you don’t encourage them to reject their disordered desires and fall on his mercy. I guess you’re still telling people that we are so distant from homosexuality that we just hate people? Sorry. Most of us live in the world with homosexual co-workers, friends and family. You’re the one who tries to cause division between us by telling those suffering with SSA that we hate them and that we are martyring them because we cannot accept their lifestyle.
Pride Month reminds Catholics to treat LGBTQ people with the “respect, compassion and sensitivity” that the Catechism commands, the “closeness, compassion and tenderness” that Pope Francis has taught, and the love and mercy that Jesus showed to all people, especially those on the margins, during his public ministry.
The problem is, you don’t think this can be done with Truth. And as the saying goes, Jesus met all people where they were, but He didn’t leave them there. That’s what you are insisting we do. Leave them. You often boast about your long-term male friend “married” to a man. You’re going on decades now and I’m wondering he’s any closer to embracing dignity. It’s sad to think you’re just telling him “God’s good with your lifestyle because he made you this way.” What a lie! God has told us the penalty for embracing sin and rejecting his mercy. Why isn’t this high on your priority list?
It’s especially important for churches to mark Pride Month since much of the rejection that LGBTQ people have faced has been motivated by Christianity—at least what many people think Christianity teaches. An example: One of the most common reasons for homelessness among LGBTQ teens is that they have been kicked out of their families for ostensibly religious reasons.
You never ever give specifics here. Did you ever think that some of these children are breaking every other rule of the house, too? Parenting is hard enough without you suggesting that parents are supposed to accept a lifestyle that is harmful to their children. “Not in my house” can be a perfectly loving rule in the grand scheme of eternal life and their physical health, which you never seem to point to. Some parents aren’t going to tolerate drug use in their house. Is that not loving? Tolerance of sin is a lie.
Churches have also been places where LGBTQ people have felt insulted, rejected and unwelcome, a result of the words and deeds of not only some bishops and pastors, but Catholic lay leaders and the faithful. So, it’s important for churches to mark Pride Month and remind our LGBTQ friends that they are welcome in what is, after all, their church, too.
Who is rejecting who? We all should welcome people who struggle against their personal sin as we are all called to do. Welcome! Come on in. You should not expect people to be acceptant of the sin itself, though, or of you embracing the sin. That’s contradictory to what Christ and his saints said. “Go and sin no more” was actually said by Christ. You only tell half of the story. Half truths aren’t truths at all. We’re called to admonish the sinner, no? And, yes, you can do that in a loving way despite what James Martin, SJ would have you think.
We also have to remember that in many countries, being LGBTQ is a life and death issue. In several countries, you can be executed simply for being gay or engaging in same-sex relations. In these places, LGBTQ issues are life issues. In some 70 countries, you can be jailed for LGBTQ advocacy. And in many others, LGBTQ people are regularly harassed, assaulted or murdered. The church is called to stand with these persecuted people throughout the year, but especially during Pride Month.
Uh, no. I have to stand against murder of anyone, all the time. Nobody should be murdered, but for you to tie that to the readers of this article is ridiculous. “Homosexuals are being killed, therefore you have to rubberstamp all things LGBTQwhatever or you’re just like murderers (in Islamic countries I may add)!.” Would you agree with that statement? Seemingly so. It’s just another twist on your usual “whataboutisms.”
And just because you celebrate Pride Month doesn’t mean that you necessarily agree with what every person, every organization or even every float in every parade has to say.
It is tacit approval and support of a lifestyle that is harmful to them.
Using all of your spin: “Just because you celebrate the Women’s March doesn’t mean you’re for abortion. I mean, they’re for killing babies and say so in every speech, but women are being killed in some countries so we should support this movement!” That’s what it comes down to. “Pride” is not about human dignity. It’s about an immoral movement to make everyone accept a lifestyle contradictory to the Catholic Faith. And, seriously, are you saying that there’s nothing totally scandalous about your average “Pride” parade?
Pride Month is mainly about supporting the fundamental human rights of the LGBTQ community: the right to live in safety, the right to be treated as equals, and the right to be fully welcome in society.
…and for us to accept all of this or we’re complicit with any bad thing that happens to them. It isn’t the Catholics in the pews out killing homosexuals.
Besides, complaints about the use of the word “pride” never seem to apply to other groups. People often say, “I’m proud to be an American” on the Fourth of July. Or they wear buttons that say “Proud to be Irish” on St. Patrick’s Day. Or when something wonderful happens in the church they tell their friends, “I’m so proud to be Catholic.” Few people object to that or would describe that as vanity. People generally understand the kind of pride that these people are talking about.
Let me spell it out for you: disordered tendencies do not equal race, nationality or Catholicism.
Another objection is marking Pride Month during the same month that Catholics celebrate the Month of the Sacred Heart. But, as I see it, the two are complementary, not contradictory. The Sacred Heart teaches us how Jesus loves; Pride Month reminds us whom Jesus invite us to love today. (I address that at greater length here.)
Love is a choice you make to will the good of another. One more time for those in the back. Sodomy and masturbation with no confession and contrition leads to perdition. That is not a good. It is not love. “Pride” and the Sacred Heart are completely contradictory. The former is the rejection of the latter.
Maybe read about the Sacred Heart devotion.
“My Divine Heart is so inflamed with love for men, and for you in particular that, being unable any longer to contain within Itself the flames of Its burning Charity, It must spread them abroad by your means, and manifest Itself to them (mankind) in order to enrich them with the precious graces of sanctification and salvation necessary to withdraw them from the abyss of perdition. I have chosen you as an abyss of unworthiness and ignorance for the accomplishment of this great design, in order that everything may be done by Me.”
I missed Christ telling us that it is necessary to go to a “Pride” event.
“My Divine Master revealed to me that it was His ardent desire to be known, loved, and honored by men, and His eager desire to draw them back from the road to perdition, along which Satan is driving them in countless numbers, that induced Him to manifest His Heart to men with all the treasures of love, mercy, grace, sanctification, and salvation that It contains.” https://www.churchpop.com/visions-of-the-sacred-heart-of-jesus-4-mystical-messages-to-saint-margaret-mary-alacoque/
Sadly, you would have them believe that there is no road to perdition. You’d have them believe all roads lead to salvation.
This year, pride celebrations worldwide may be more relevant than ever. For a number of reasons mainly political ones, some corporations have removed their yearslong sponsorship of pride events (both at work and in the public square);
Oh, no. How will they scandalize little children in public now? I could put a really gross list of the realities of “Pride” events but I won’t put anymore than I have already. I started typing it out and it was just too disgusting.
pride events are being scaled back out of fears of reprisals; the term “LGBTQ” has been labeled “DEI” and is therefore anathema in some quarters and there has been a increase in negative language (and actions) directed at transgender people.
Dude, even homosexuals are calling out “Pride” events as grooming fetish events. Yes, your days are numbered. And that’s really what all this is about – you.
This growing climate of fear can make LGBTQ people feel reluctant, discouraged or even frightened of participating in pride events.
Good! They should be afraid of losing their immortal souls.
Add to that some church leaders saying that pride events are inconsistent with Catholic values and it’s no wonder that many LGBTQ Catholics want simply to withdraw.
Those are great Church leaders. They care for souls. They don’t care about being the darling divas of a movement that’s keeping them on the road to perdition like you.
Maybe the best way to think about Pride Month is to imagine what you would say to a young person who finally summoned up the courage to tell you that they are LGBTQ. You know that God created them. You know that God loves them. And you know that God wants them to be who they are. So, you would probably say, “I am so proud of you for being able to say that.”
That’s the kind of pride we celebrate this month, and that Catholics worldwide can celebrate.
Happy Pride!>
Uh, this is all completely weaponized ambiguity. We are not our sin and proclivities. This is the part you always leave out. We are children of God made in His image and likeness. That’s who we are. Nobody is “LGBTQ.” If we are in sin, God doesn’t want us to stay that way. He does not accept our sinful lifestyles any more than Christ did when he told people to repent and sin no more. The loving thing to say would be “Thanks for sharing your struggles with me. Let’s struggle together against sin so we can live eternal life with God.” I’m never going to say “God made you that way. Do as you will.” Would you say that to a drug addict??? Drug addiction is not James Martin, SJ’s favorite disordered tendency, so probably not. He just thinks some disorders should be embraced like a warm fuzzy blanket that won’t lead you to hell. This is why he’s trying to convince people that the claiming of “LGBTQ Catholic” is akin to a race or nationality. He doesn’t want them to overcome. He wants them to wallow. How about we all be Catholics trying to overcome our disorders, evil inclinations and sin as the Church tells us we must do to gain Heaven. Please note that this doesn’t mean they simply disappear. Overcome has a meaning. It means to succeed in dealing with a problem or difficulty. Confession, contrition and repentance along with the Sacraments is what people should be engaging in to do this, not celebrating “Pride Month.”
Blessed Month of the Sacred Heart!
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