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« on: June 05, 2020, 03:54:29 AM »
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A Pride Parade set to take place in San Huberto City was preemptively halted and dispersed by police. The event, planned over social media, was intended to begin around noon at Presidio Plaza, the center of the city, with stops and speeches planned at both the Capital and Saint Hubert's Cathedral, seat of the Archbishop of San Huberto, before ending in the early afternoon. Several thousand people had indicated an interest in attending the march, but law enforcement had become aware of the un-permitted march and had arrived earlier at the set gathering place, turning would-be attendees away. Plans for the event quickly fell through as word spread through online channels of law enforcement's response, and police presence prevented the crowd from growing larger than a few hundred individuals. Police likewise became aware of the parade over social media and feeling that the event "had the potential to disturb public peace" as well as "molest political and religious activities" chose to take "preemptive action to ensure the public tranquility." About 3 dozen people were taken into custody for "disorderly conduct", after regrouping several blocks away and attempting to continue the march, prompting complaints from homosexual and civil rights advocacy groups.
The agency's press office defended the actions of its officers, releasing a statement which read in part, "Officers involved dispersing an illegal gathering today acted both within the law and civility to ensure the general public remained undisturbed by unlawful activities. Moreover, the Nation's 1962 Constitution, which will remain in effect until such a time that a new is drafted and approved by the Constitutional Assembly, expressly forbids political parties formed on a "religious, linguistic, racial, sex, corporatist or regional basis". By organizing a political event with a clear political agenda, the planners and participants of this march, even if not formally existing as a political party, were effectively operating as such, and were therefore subject to the same restrictions as all other political organizations."
Same-Sex marriage has never been recognized by any government of San Huberto, though homosexuality was decriminalized briefly in 1936, before being revoked by the subsequent Falangist dictatorship, and has remained decriminalized since 1962.
The break up of the march has sparked discussion throughout San Huberto, from social media to the Constitutional Assembly. With Saint Hubert's Cathedral being a planned stop for the marchers, even the Archdiocese of San Huberto has weighed in on the issue:
A Pride Parade set to take place in San Huberto City was preemptively halted and dispersed by police. The event, planned over social media, was intended to begin around noon at Presidio Plaza, the center of the city, with stops and speeches planned at both the Capital and Saint Hubert's Cathedral, seat of the Archbishop of San Huberto, before ending in the early afternoon. Several thousand people had indicated an interest in attending the march, but law enforcement had become aware of the un-permitted march and had arrived earlier at the set gathering place, turning would-be attendees away. Plans for the event quickly fell through as word spread through online channels of law enforcement's response, and police presence prevented the crowd from growing larger than a few hundred individuals. Police likewise became aware of the parade over social media and feeling that the event "had the potential to disturb public peace" as well as "molest political and religious activities" chose to take "preemptive action to ensure the public tranquility." About 3 dozen people were taken into custody for "disorderly conduct", after regrouping several blocks away and attempting to continue the march, prompting complaints from homosexual and civil rights advocacy groups.
The agency's press office defended the actions of its officers, releasing a statement which read in part, "Officers involved dispersing an illegal gathering today acted both within the law and civility to ensure the general public remained undisturbed by unlawful activities. Moreover, the Nation's 1962 Constitution, which will remain in effect until such a time that a new is drafted and approved by the Constitutional Assembly, expressly forbids political parties formed on a "religious, linguistic, racial, sex, corporatist or regional basis". By organizing a political event with a clear political agenda, the planners and participants of this march, even if not formally existing as a political party, were effectively operating as such, and were therefore subject to the same restrictions as all other political organizations."
Same-Sex marriage has never been recognized by any government of San Huberto, though homosexuality was decriminalized briefly in 1936, before being revoked by the subsequent Falangist dictatorship, and has remained decriminalized since 1962.
The break up of the march has sparked discussion throughout San Huberto, from social media to the Constitutional Assembly. With Saint Hubert's Cathedral being a planned stop for the marchers, even the Archdiocese of San Huberto has weighed in on the issue:
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To Our Venerable Bishops, and all other Local Ordinaries who are at Peace and in Communion with the Apostolic See, and to the Clergy and Faithful of all of San Huberto, and to all Men of Good Will.
The month of June, for the Catholic faithful, is a time of great import and reflection, as we contemplate the mystery and wonderful mercy of the divine. It is during this month that special attention is given to contemplating Jesus Christ's divine love for humanity.
In other parts of Mundus during June, there are those who participate in very different observations. As Catholics, we strive to follow the example of God's annointed, who has compassion for all mankind, but we must also recognize that these activities are anathema to our Catholic values.
Our Church teaches us that homosexual acts are contrary to the natural law. They close the sexual act to the gift of life. They do not proceed from a genuine affective and sexual complementarity. Under no circumstances can they be approved.
Even at the most superficial level do these events encourage behavior contrary to Catholic values. Indeed Superbia, Pride, is the original and most perilous of sins. It was pride that lead to Lucifer's downfall, the most luminous of angels cast out from God's Kingdom, beyond the reach of His love. Pride led man to build the Tower of Babel, in mockery of our Lord, and for this foul sacrilege, man was punished, his singular tongue divided into an innumerable variety.
Rejection, however, must not give way to hate. The number of men and women who have deep-seated homosexual tendencies is not negligible. This inclination, which is objectively disordered, constitutes for most of them a trial. Therefore, these individuals, who believe themselves to be homosexuals, must be accepted with respect, compassion, and sensitivity. Every sign of unjust discrimination in their regard should be avoided, but we equally must not mistake forgiveness or acceptance for reverence. These behaviors are perversions and not inborn conditions. Not an inherent state, but a sin, and a grave sin it is indeed. Those afflicted with such unnatural urges can and should, aided with the support and prayers of all our faithful, gradually and resolutely approach Christian perfection. Tradition has always declared that homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered, that they are contrary to the natural law, and therefore sinful. For to commit a crime against the natural world is a sin against ourselves and a sin against God. To raise sin as a cause for celebration, to have it approved by our temporal institutions, would make every believer complicit in the act.
With the Pentecost on the 31st of the previous month, we ended May by celebrating the descent of the Holy Spirit upon the followers of Christ and awaited with great anticipation as the arrival of June, the month of Sacratissimum Cor Iesu, the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, descended upon us all. The month of June is holy in its entirety, as well as containing many sacred days within it. As we near the Feast of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, which is, in this year of our Lord 2020, on June 19th, we are reminded of God's boundless and passionate love for mankind. The Sunday immediately following is Father's Day, another important celebration in our community, where family and fatherhood are celebrated, and where it is common for children to honor not only their temporal fathers, but their spiritual fathers, their parochial priests, as well.
Let us gather in spirit and remember the words of William of Saint-Thierry as we progress through this Holy month:
"Lord my God, give me some of your bread, for I groan as a poor man among your poor, in the race of men, in the family of your Christ. I seek your face, Lord; I search for your face, Lord, hungering and thirsting for your justice in the contemplation of your face. Grant that I be filled with your truth, not with the fantasies of my heart lest I regress and fall into my own emptiness by rejecting your truth. I perceive clearly how many delusions the human heart can produce. And what is my heart but a human heart? But this I ask of you, God of my heart, that none of these delusions cling to me in place of the real truth; but let the light of your truth come to me from that source from which the breath of Christ's truth is bestowed upon me, although I am cast far from the sight of your eyes and am trying to return from afar by the way which you have prepared for us through the humanity of your only-begotten Son."
- The Most Reverend, Metropolitan Archbishop Ciro