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LETTERS
MAY 2001

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NO SCIENTIFIC PROOF

The April San Francisco Faith letters column included a letter by a Joan E. Burke which attempted to use the Catechism of the Catholic Church to refute Scott Lively's March Faith statements regarding the nature of homosexuality. Lively had pointed out that the concept of homosexuality, as an innate condition, is a false premise, unsupported by science. Burke quoted the Catechism in rebuttal stating, "They (homosexuals) do not choose their homosexual condition, for most of them it is a trial." Hello? Where is the editor here? Burke quoted from the uncorrected version of the early translation. The sentence she quoted was corrected in the English text back on September 8, 1997, the corrections being promulgated by Pope John Paul II. The corrected version of the sentence should be: "This inclination (homosexuality), which is objectively disordered, constitutes for most of them a trial". There is a big difference here. Burke's misquoting of the text served further to promote the homosexual agenda by fostering the false belief that homosexuals were "born that way", and that they have a "homosexual orientation", etc. As Lively stated, there is no scientific proof of this at all. In fact, there is no such thing as a "homosexual orientation". Read Genesis 1:27-28: "And God created man to his own image; to the image of God he created him. Male and female he created them. And God blessed them, saying: Increase and multiply and fill the earth...." Homosexuality is an objective disorder, and the acting upon of the "inclination" is a moral evil, an aberration, and abominable offense against God and the nature He created. The Faith should not allow the homosexual agenda have the last (and false) words in this continuing battle against perversion.

Laurette Elsberry

Via email


INVALID SURVEYS

I received your newsletter, San Francisco Faith in the mail and have read it cover to cover. I have found the articles interesting and informative. I do, however, question the validity of the survey of Bay Area churches. I can't for the life of me know why anyone would want to class their church (or any other for that matter), on a scale of 1 to 10. I find it scandalous and boring. Nonetheless, thank you for the free copy. I enjoyed reading it.

Bobbie Lizarraga

Danville


CARELESS TRUTH SEEKING

You who are so bent on truth seeking ought to know that the photo you have labeled "Santa Clara University Chapel" is not that at all. It happens to be the chapel at St Mary's College, Moraga. I hope this carelessness does not abound in other areas of reporting that you give as truth. Humans do make mistakes, don't they?

Thanks

Wayne Campbell


SYMPATHY FOR FATHER FESSIO

Like so many other loyal orthodox Catholics we were terribly upset that the powers that be at USF have put the Saint Ignatius Institute out of business. The liberal hypocrites who claim to be very tolerant cannot tolerate anything contrary to their misguided agendas.

Shame on Father Stephen Privett and all misguided liberal Jesuits who no longer stand up for the true faith. Countless orthodox Jesuits must be turning in their graves as they see what has happened to a once glorious, godly order, which in the past, had members shed their blood for the love of Our Savior Jesus Christ.

Our hearts go out to Father Joseph Fessio and so many other great and loyal Catholics who made Saint Ignatius Institute a beacon of light. Thank you for the wonderful publication which keeps us informed of the flaky, false, nonsense going on in Catholic(?) circles around the Bay Area, where we lived for many years until 1995.

We love your surveys about different parishes. How idiotic it is to praise and defend some of the so-called Catholic communities. What happened to the word 'church'? Yes, Holy Spirit in Berkeley is indeed more ugly than some jails! To Daniel P Sullivan, who judges that so many Catholics are "narrow-minded," I ask, is it possible that some cafeteria Catholics might be so broad-minded that some of their brains have fallen off?

Constantine N. Santos

Atascadero

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