Last week, NSW Premier, Kristina Keneally, said that her personal religious views wouldn’t sway her support for a bill on same-sex adoption:

“My religious views do not play a part in the legislation that I, as leader of the Labor Party, bring before the government.”

“If I look at the gospel message, it is one of acceptance . . . Jesus sat with the sinners and the saints. He was not a man of judgment but rather a man of love.”

Well, she was wrong there. Catholics know that there will be a Day of Judgment and they know who the Judge will be.

Jesus himself said:

“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven: but only he who does the will of my Father who is in Heaven . . . . 

“Many will say to me on that day: ‘Lord, Lord, did we not we prophesy in your name etc?’

“Then I shall tell them to their faces, ‘I never knew you: depart from me, you whose deeds are evil!’”

(Matthew’s gospel, chapter 7)

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Anyway, next day, KK found herself trying to explain how she hadn’t meant to compare homosexuals to sinners.

This time she omitted the “sinners” bit altogether, saying instead, “Jesus loves all. He accepted all. For me, that is the strongest message that comes out of the gospel.”

With friends like her, the Catholic Church doesn’t need enemies.

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Back-downs and wimp-outs by fake Catholics are now common, world-wide.

Six European countries now recognise same-sex “marriages”: Norway, Belgium, Spain, Netherlands, Sweden, and — since just the other day — Portugal.

The Portuguese bill was subject to presidential veto.

But did President Anibal Cavaco Silva, a “practising Catholic” veto it?  No, he ratified it.

Just a few days earlier, butter wouldn’t melt in his mouth, as he welcomed Pope Benedict on his Portugal visit.

Benedict spoke on that occasion about same-sex couplings, calling them “insidious and dangerous”.

Why not? He is the Pope. He proclaims Church teaching.

But what about those fortitude-less wonders, President Anibal and our Kristina?

On Judgement Day, will they try telling God they hadn’t really understood what the Church teaching was, and that it was all an innocent mistake?

God is not impressed by liars.

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