Friday, September 8, 2017

Fr. James Martin's works will outlast recent, childish Twitter attacks

https://www.ncronline.org/news/opinion/fr-jim-martins-works-will-outlast-recent-childish-twitter-attacks
MGB:_Ruse’s taunts are more junior high through drunken fratboy than second grade. They are meant to convey the view that the victim is an outsider or is disloyal to the common cause of faith. Resorting to such nonsense shows that Ruse has no real counter-argument. It is like resortign to scripture in a discussion on natural law, or more pathetically, Magisterial authority. Fr. Martin’s opponents just don’t have game. I too would would prefer he criticize Church teaching on homosexuality and so would Ruse so that there was something to attack. You can’t proof text a call to dialogue with either scripture or your favorite quote from Pio Nono. The champions of Catholic Homophobia don’t want dialogue. They know they will lose any open discussion where the Church is open to change, so taunts are all they have.

Of course, the fact that Ruse writes for Breitbart and Crisis means he should simply be ignored, even when he gets noticed. There are voices on the left who are saying very provocative things on the subject but don’t have a sponsoring organization. Write about us.

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