Celebrating Pride Month? Pride Goeth Before the Fall

(Note: this article was previously published in the Remnant Newspaper in June 2021. It has since been tweaked for this blog.)

For anyone who hasn’t noticed yet, June was proclaimed “Pride Month” years ago by President Clinton in 1999 and President Barack Obama during his time as president. Our "fearless leader" Führer "Catholic" Joe Biden has also declared June as Pride Month in the year 2021. Not sure why they had to keep repeating themselves, its not like we'd forget or anything... Year after year towns and cities everywhere profess their undying love and allegiance to the lifestyle of sinful filth and slime, raising the rainbow flag of “Pride”. With parades of foul and corrupt behaviors in the streets desecrating whatever is left of moral society in their wake. And still the cancer grows. The year 2020 was the “50th Anniversary” of San Francisco “Pride”. Oh my do have much to celebrate! HIV, AIDS, STI’s, rectal gonorrhea, syphilis, and suicides through the roof. Not to mention the complete eradication of innocence in children, the moral decay of society as a whole, and the growing number of unrepentant souls falling into eternal perdition for their sins. But we as Catholics can't say we weren't warned of this.

Remember the strong words of the Catholic Saints on Sodomy? Neither did I; they haven’t been shared around as often as they should be. Here are just a few highlights (remember these are the words of the Saints!)

“Those offences which be contrary to nature are everywhere and at all times to be held in detestation and punished; such were those of the Sodomites, which should all nations commit, they should all be held guilty of the same crime by the divine law, which hath not so made men that they should in that way abuse one another. For even that fellowship which should be between God and us is violated, when that same nature of which He is author is polluted by the perversity of lust.” – Saint Augustine, Doctor of the Church

“Sacred Scripture itself confirms that sulfur evokes the stench of the flesh, as it speaks of the rain of fire and sulfur poured upon Sodom by the Lord. He had decided to punish Sodom for the crimes of the flesh, and the very type of punishment he chose emphasized the shame of that crime. For sulfur stinks, and fire burns. So it was just that Sodomites, burning with perverse desires arising from the flesh like stench, should perish by fire and sulfur so that through this just punishment they would realize the evil they had committed, led by a perverse desire.”  – Saint Gregory the Great, Father and Doctor of the Church.

Saint Peter Damian, Doctor of the Church and great reformer of clergy said this in his book, The Book of Gomorrah:

“Truly, this vice is never to be compared with any other vice because it surpasses the enormity of all vices.… It defiles everything, stains everything, pollutes everything. And as for itself, it permits nothing pure, nothing clean, nothing other than filth.…

“The miserable flesh burns with the heat of lust; the cold mind trembles with the rancor of suspicion; and in the heart of the miserable man chaos boils like Tartarus [Hell]…. In fact, after this most poisonous serpent once sinks its fangs into the unhappy soul, sense is snatched away, memory is borne off, the sharpness of the mind is obscured. It becomes unmindful of God and even forgetful of itself. This plague undermines the foundation of faith, weakens the strength of hope, destroys the bond of charity; it takes away justice, subverts fortitude, banishes temperance, blunts the keenness of prudence.

“And what more should I say since it expels the whole host of the virtues from the chamber of the human heart and introduces every barbarous vice as if the bolts of the doors were pulled out.”

The Great Saint Thomas Aquinas wrote,

“If all the sins of the flesh are worthy of condemnation because by them man allows himself to be dominated by that which he has of the animal nature, much more deserving of condemnation are the sins against nature by which man degrades his own animal nature….”

Mystic and Doctor of the Church, Saint Catherine of Siena also had some very strong words against this act, “But they act in a contrary way, for they come full of impurity to this mystery, and not only of that impurity to which, through the fragility of your weak nature, you are all naturally inclined (although reason, when free will permits, can quiet the rebellion of nature), but these wretches not only do not bridle this fragility, but do worse, committing that accursed sin against nature, and as blind and fools, with the light of their intellect darkened, they do not know the stench and misery in which they are. It is not only that this sin stinks before me, who am the Supreme and Eternal Truth, it does indeed displease me so much and I hold it in such abomination that for it alone I buried five cities by a divine judgment, my divine justice being no longer able to endure it. This sin not only displeases me as I have said, but also the devils whom these wretches have made their masters. Not that the evil displeases them because they like anything good, but because their nature was originally angelic, and their angelic nature causes them to loathe the sight of the actual commission of this enormous sin.”

And one more for the road, Saint Bernadine of Siena, “No sin in the world grips the soul as the accursed sodomy; this sin has always been detested by all those who live according to God.… Deviant passion is close to madness; this vice disturbs the intellect, destroys elevation and generosity of soul, brings the mind down from great thoughts to the lowliest, makes the person slothful, irascible, obstinate and obdurate, servile and soft and incapable of anything; 

furthermore, agitated by an insatiable craving for pleasure, the person follows not reason but frenzy.… They become blind and, when their thoughts should soar to high and great things, they are broken down and reduced to vile and useless and putrid things, which could never make them happy…. Just as people participate in the glory of God in different degrees, so also in hell some suffer more than others. He who lived with this vice of sodomy suffers more than another, for this is the greatest sin.” (All quotes  from 12 Quotes Against Sodomy…)

Oh, how many Catholics today would clutch their pearls, tear their garments and lash out against this so-called “blasphemy” against the great god of Political Correctness! Yet these quotes are from the mouths of Catholic SAINTS. Can we say that we know better than they?

But here’s the kicker: The majority of Catholics have been openly supporting “Pride Month” while many others have remained silent on the whole issue. (Remember in June 2015 when everyone’s Facebook profile pictures had the rainbow flag over it? Including many Catholics??)

While rainbow flags dominate the entire internet as well as most well-known companies such as Target, Tide, Facebook, and Ben & Jerrys (among many others) many Catholic priests' homilies have still remained stuck on the same old mantra, “love, Jesus, missionary disciple." Okay, talk about those things! But considering that in 2020,  "one in six Americans ages 18 to 23 identify as LGBT", and the fact that 61% (!!!!) of Catholics said they "they favor allowing gays and lesbians to marry" in 2019... I think it's time to talk about what exactly the Catholic Church has to say about so-called "LGBT" lifestyles. 

Especially in the month of June (which is actually the month of the Sacred Heart) regular people like myself have been constantly bombarded by the filthy rainbow where ever we go; the site I get my stock photos from, all the main social media sites, half of the local shops in my area, even my cycle tracking app. For the love of Pete, I can’t even play my music on Spotify, my little farm app game, or shop online without the same agenda in my face. It is inescapable.

Though I am hardly afraid (there is no such thing as "homophobia" except maybe in some non-Catholic circles)… what I really am is mad. Red hot, stinking mad. Not at society really, because it’s so far down the garbage can that it doesn’t even know what gender is. I’m mad at Catholics, and most especially at Catholics with platforms. Because, if the entirety of what we as human beings are seeing every single day at work, in our homes, in our families, on our phones and even in our grocery stores is so prevalent (it is), and if indeed the issue is so very diabolical and damning (it is), why have we yet to hear anything about “Pride Month” from the pulpits?? From our spiritual fathers!?

Why are we not being bombarded with healthy and moral resources concerning same-sex attraction by prominent Catholics? (see my master list of resources!) When the whole world is swirling down the drain in a rainbow-colored mush of sin and slime that will send millions of souls to eternal damnation if they do not repent… are we are so worried that preaching Catholic Teaching might offend people!?

I’d like to see us Catholics becoming “triggered” over Eucharistic Sacrileges, and Gay Pride Masses (yes, they are a thing). I’d like to see them get upset and make a real difference when it comes to those suffering from same-sex attraction.

No more taking a backseat in this Marxist society. No more taking hits from a society that has long forgotten God and morality. It’s time to step up and do as Saint Paul the Apostle said to Timothy, “Fight the good fight of faith: lay hold on eternal life,” [1 Timothy 6:12]

We cannot stay silent, nor should we go into battle without proper gear; the Rosary, the Sacraments, and a backup plan. We may not always be able to win rounds in this endless fight against the Devil but that does not mean we must give up. We must be all the louder to share the message of Christ, “Be penitent, therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out. (Acts 3:19)”

Finally, remember! "Same sex attraction" is just like any other sin, in how it is a sin and the person suffering with temptations to act upon it are called NOT to act upon it. Just as would-be adulterers', murderers (people prone to rage), people struggling with fornication / masturbation, people struggling with detraction and gossip... ect ect. What makes acting upon same sex attraction somewhat "different" is that the Church calls it one of the four "Sins the Cry To Heaven For Revenge" because it is so vile in the sight of God. This is also supported by the Church's teaching on this subject, as well as the many, many past Saints, Fathers and Doctors of the Church condemning this sin as one of the most vile. Again, the ACT of this sin is what is vile, not the person who experiences these temptations and attractions. We are all sinners, we are all broken. Saying that the act of homosexuality is vile is not saying that the person is vile if they do not do the act. And, as with every single sin, those who have acted upon these temptations are called by Christ in love to Confession to be reconciled in His Sacred Heart. Because, the act of sodomy is a mortal sin which means that dying with just one of these on their soul will lead a person to Hell for eternity. This is why we love sinners enough to call them to repentance in Christ. We are called by Holy Mother Church to have a HATRED OF SIN as God hates sin, but A LOVE FOR ONE ANOTHER.

May we all die with these words on our lips: “I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith.”  [2 Timothy 4:7]