Catholic Church’s marriage expert: Homosexuality comes from the devil

So, let’s see if I’m understanding this properly. If a trait isn’t a genetic predisposition, it’s the work of the devil? Okay, since Catholic priests aren’t genetically predisposed to becoming priests, are they the work of the devil as well? Just asking …

screw the RCC, and the Cross it came in on…….aaargh, so glad I gave up on religion yrs ago..and gave up the RCC…..when I think of the time wasted on such a Hateful,bigoted religion……..

The Catholic congregation (the folks in the pews) could speak up and ask for this man to be removed from his position. They could speak up for their GLBT family members, friends, and neighbors who live lives of integrity and contribute to our society.
However, it appears they just don’t care to do so…

The Catholic congregation (the folks in the pews) could speak up and ask for the church to focus on worshipping God and reaching out to the poor and needy instead of becoming the newest political party.
However, it appears they just don’t care to do so…

Catholics, you can choose to do the good work of the Lord…or you can continue to hurt others by submitting yourselves and your tithing to the whims of a morally-bankrupt hierarchy and the salaries of men like Daniel Avila. YOU are better than this and YOU have a choice.
I pray that you please be heard by the leadership.

Daniel Avila, a prime example of what comes from the shallow end of the gene pool. He’s not real strong on biology but he sure is strong on demonic issues.

Jeff Wilfahrt, Rosemount, MN

If this guy claimed that variations from nature were caused by interdimensional beings beaming DNA rays that we can’t see but account for what’s wrong, nobody would take him seriously. But when he says a devil must be the answer for any variation in the way God meant things to be, it has to be respected as faith.

Since it is widely believed that 40-60% of all Catholic priests are homosexuals, Avila’s logic can only lead to the conclusion that the Catholic church is the work of the devil. Care to comment Mr. Avila????

Bigotry and ignorance on steroids – not to mention getting it deathly wrong on human sexuality. Avila’s insidious homophobia that demonizes these fellow humans continues to harm and kill. The devil is in the details and his mirror.

Wow. Apparently Mr. Avila has a direct hotline to God and therefore knows everything God thinks…and apparently his god is fixated on all-things-homosexual and is totally for demonizing a small minority (gay folks).
Tell me Mr. Avila, where is God’s love in that spewage you are putting forth?

Well, there is a reason why the churches are empty.

I sure hope the Catholic Church in MN uses that tag line “Homosexuality comes from the devil” in all of their radio, TV and everything else ads calling for people to support the amendment to ban same sex marriage. Please, please use it. They will be laughed right out of the state.

I thought they hated science. So evolution is no longer the devil?

It still doesn’t explain why Tornado Alley goes right through the Bible Belt.

What does it mean when someone says Satan is behind something?

-It means they are too ignorant, unthinking and intellectually lazy to figure out the actual causes of things. In fact, they don’t want to know since that would require thought. And who knows where that would lead. Thinking critically about things can be dangerous for the dogmatic mind–better not do it. In short, Satan is a Christian fiction, a fairy tale for the none-too-sharp.

-It means they probably have an inability to make nuanced moral discriminations. You are either with their god, who is presumably all good (although the Bible makes for every poor evidence for this assertion), or you are all evil like Satan. The god/devil dialectic has the effect, so it would seem, of blunting moral conscience, turning people into moral cripples of perception. It has the effect of cramming every moral act into irrational categories of black and white. How exactly are we to understand two men getting married as being inspired by Satan?

-It means they might not have any concept of the role of reason in ethical thought. Why exactly, Catholic hierarchy, is homosexuality evil and bad? It’s much easier to not reason this out. Thus, the right-wing Christian moralizer has a shortcut–slap the label of Satan on something, and you’re absolved from the onerous burden of thought.

-They are willing to recreate the worst historical examples of social exclusion. They are willing to energize the worst impulses in people of irrational fear and hatred. To say something is Satan-inspired is to say that it is pure evil. And what is to be done with pure evil? Eliminate it, of course.

Catholic hierarchy: have you learned nothing from history? Did WWII not hold any lessons for you? Are you the least bit serious about moral education?

Did the Catholic hierarchy learn nothing from World War II? Yes, of course. It learned that it could offer comfort and support to Nazi war criminals, assisting them to get out of Europe before being brought to justice, and it learned that it was useful to help the Nazis round up Jews. After the war, it learned further that they could make all those stubborn facts go away by denying that it ever happened and by changing the subject.

I fail to see any difference between the extremist, fanatical religionists (one can hardly call them Christian) and the Catholic hierarchy! They seem to be one and the same! One looks at these churches and exclaims, “No wonder Christ hasn’t returned… they’d kill him all over again in three days, not three years!” Sad, sad story. No wonder people leave/have left the church in droves!

Daniel Avila has now resigned from the Catholic Conference.

http://www.truthwinsout.org/pressreleases/2011/11/19835/