No homo, Roy? Humbled Hibbert consults 'Saint' Jason Collins in new gay NBA

After Lebron James returned to MVP form and his World Champion Miami Heat finally sent the pesky Indiana Pacers packing Monday to return the Heat to the NBA finals, it would seem that all is right in the world of men's professional basketball. But in the new gay NBA, where a player not only is fined for bone-headed comments, but must seek forgiveness from a journeyman-player-turned-secular-saint, things are far from normal, or shall we say, "natural."

The latest episode of NBA moronic middle-school babble, but the first since the MSM and President Barack Obama elevated Jason Collins (the washed-up Washington Wizard center/first major male pro sport player to come out as openly gay) to Martin Luther King-like civil rights status, occurred after Pacers center Roy Hibbert referred to his suffocating defense on James in Indiana's 91-77 game six victory as "no homo." Of course, due to the push by the left to legalize gay marriage, a slur against homosexuals has become even worse than insulting a Muslim, and Hibbert's slur was so widely and roundly condemned that his calling the reporters "mother-f*******" during the same interview was largely overlooked. In fact, Hibbert's comments were deemed so dastardly that his apology for "insensitive...disrespectful and offensive remarks" and the $75,000 league fine were not thought to be enough. He had to get absolution from Collins.

"Hey can I get a follow," Hibbert's tweet to the media's newest JC read. "Would like to discuss something's with you."

To the casual Catholic observer, Collins' elevation to courageous superstar and secular saint is curious, if not unexpected. On the basketball front, Wikipedia warily denotes Collins' "very low career averages in the NBA of 3.6 points, 3.8 rebounds, 0.5 blocks, and 41 percent shooting," before adding (a bit ironically in light of recent developments) a line about his value as "a physical player defending the post [who] boxes out well, and excels at setting screens."

Meanwhile, Collins' personal life, including his eight year relationship with former WNBA center Carolyn Moos, looms problematic for the would-be gay prophet. Collins was engaged to marry Moos in 2009 until he called off the wedding shortly before the scheduled event. Yet neither this tidbit or the "shock, hurt and confusion" Moos felt when Collins first told her he was gay nearly four years later (and just days before he revealed it publicly on ABC and in Sports Illustrated), was largely ignored by the press during Collins' canonization.

Instead, the MSM focused on the predictable political praise of Collins' public declaration of same-sex attraction by both Obamas as well as Mr. Morality himself, Bill Clinton, not to mention Collins' athletic acceptance by the likes of NBA standout Kobe Bryant.

"Proud of @jasoncollins," tweets the LA Laker legend. "Don't suffocate who u r because of the ignorance of others #courage #support #mambaarmystandup #BYOU."  On the one hand, there is no doubt that Bryant is a true NBA superstar of the highest degree. Still, Bryant's moral status may be more questionable than even Collins', not only due to his 2003 sexual assault of a teenage hotel attendant (that with the help of his high-priced lawyers and lots of settlement money was reduced to a charge of marital infidelity) but also that he was guilty of a gay slur himself, calling an NBA referee a "faggot" in 2010.

But timing is everything, and if Collins' open homosexuality now raises him to the level of Mother Teresa in the eyes of the many Americans who believe everything the MSM says, maybe Bryant is hoping such gay praise will raise his daring extramarital escapades to the status of national sexual hero as well. Because once the Natural Law is ignored, all moral bets are off.

G.K. Chesterton once said the greatest heresies occur when part of a Truth is elevated to the whole, and nowhere is that more prevalent than our country's current understanding of Natural Law. Once accepted by both believers and non-believers alike, Natural Law is an all but forgotten guideline, although its distorted remnants survive in diabolical ways. For example, while the modernist doggedly defends Natural Law as it relates to preserving trees or protecting pets, he roundly ignores it when it applies to destroying people.

Thus, in becoming more concerned with keeping plastic bottles than aborted babies out of the trashcan, modern man has clearly forgotten the role nature and gender has clearly given a man and a woman in regards to making and maintaining a family, and marriage is no longer based on (divine) revelation or tradition, but on which lifestyle gets the most tweets. Jason Collins may still call himself a Christian, but one can only wonder how his hip translation of the Bible must read. "In perfect Lust there is no fear?" Or perhaps, "In the end, there are but three things that last; Faith, Hope and Lust. But the greatest of these is gay sex."

Melinda's list: Selmys' forty ways to love a lesbian (and hate Michael Voris)

Reprinted on RenewAmerica.

Homosexuality refers to relations between men or between women who experience an exclusive or predominant sexual attraction toward persons of the same sex. It has taken a great variety of forms through the centuries and in different cultures. Its psychological genesis remains largely unexplained. Basing itself on Sacred Scripture, which presents homosexual acts as acts of grave depravity, tradition has always declared that “homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered.” They 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. (CCC #2357)

After being questioned by many (including myself) for condemning Michael Voris' documentary, “FBI (Faith Based Investigation) into Homosexuality," as erroneous, but then not giving any evidence to support this claim, former queer (her term) turned married Catholic mother of six, Melinda Selmys, went back to the blogging board and "called Voris' bluff," coming up with forty so-called errors in Voris' film. Sadly, many of these claims stretch the limits of credulity (if not veracity) and, as in the case of both of Selmys' previous two works on the subject ("How to Speak About Homosexuality" and "What I Mean By Acceptance"), raised more questions than they answered.

Part scholarly research and part knee-jerk reaction, Selmys herself admitted that many of Voris' "errors" are not actually errors at all, but merely her personal objections to Michael's style. For example, Error #6, "The entire 'history' section suffers from massive Western chauvanism. The result is a misleading and lop-sided portrayal," appears to be merely a typical feminist beef without fact, and #12, "Paranoia abounds. This is strictly speaking not a factual error, but it is an extremely problematic form of thinking," is even more problematic in that it harkens back to the original problem; Selmys is merely calling Voris names without giving reasons. As early as the third grade, students are now taught to give evidence to support their answers, and all parties concerned would have probably been better served if Selmys had made her list shorter and left such name calling off of it.

Speaking about homosexuality? Melinda Selmys' 'queer' way to save gays

Reprinted on RenewAmerica.

In her article, "How to Speak About Homosexuality," (and subsequent follow-up, "What I Mean By Acceptance"), former gay-turned-committed-Catholic author Melinda Selmys makes first one, then two attempts to trash and bash Michael Voris’ “FBI (Faith Based Investigation) into Homosexuality,” with mixed—or more accurately—mixed-up results. And here, the fault is not so much Selmys', who admits her journey from "sin" and "confusion" to Truth and Catholicism is still filled with "doubts, depression, self-loathing, and intellectual pride," but with First Things, who offers up the still-evolving Melinda as the authentic voice of Catholic/gay evangelization without the brash-but-accurate corrections of someone like Mike.

Melinda Selmys

First, after categorizing Voris' film as angry (not to mention "paranoid, hysterical, and alienating... [and] homophobic"), Selmys then slashes back by saying, "I’m tempted to rip into its bloody meat and leave behind a mangled carcass as a warning to others who might desire to make something similar," seemingly not realizing that by writing thusly she just revealed her own anger out loud. But whereas Voris clearly delineates early on in his video that his (righteous) anger is directed at the sin and not the sinner, Selmys immediately evokes an anger that is personal. Of course, after many readers rightly call her on the carpet for this, she tries to jokingly dismiss it by saying, "Several people have mistaken my desire to rip into Voris' production for rage. It's nothing that elevated. More like intellectual blood-lust, really"—and then proceeds to make the mess even worse.

For after her questionable jest, Selmys goes on to say, "My problem is not with people telling the truth about homosexuality, my problem is with people mistaking anger and disgust for [the] truth [of homosexuality]," claiming that Voris' 94-minute documentary contains "factual and logical errors...about one every two minutes." But instead of then depicting even a single so-called Voris lie, she sighs that "it would take me thousands of words to detangle them all," and instead plays the "C" card (that is, "Charity") and trots out the ol' "Offenses Against Truth” section of the Catechism (CCC 2475-2479) as her sole defense, something that should have made her editors cringe.

Rockne and the Resurrection: celebrating Easter and the Irish "feast"

Two weeks ago, you could say St. Patrick got the short shrift, for because March 17 fell on a Lenten Sunday, the patron saint of Ireland was not celebrated in church, at least not liturgically. Of course, while some priests did in fact mention Patrick (the wise ones, that is) I doubt on this greatest Christian feast of the year, that few will even think about the "feast" of that other great (Fighting) Irish icon, Knute Rockne.

For as 3-31-31 (the day Rockne died) flips around to 3-31-13, Christ's triumph over death and evil certainly trumps over Rockne's victories over 'Tech or the Trojans. Yet as Easter signifies Jesus' perfect love for us and each year symbolizes new life for the Christian, Rockne's life, which once symbolized all that was right with sports, now comes to signify all that is (still) right with Notre Dame. As Catholics have hope with a new pope, Irish fans have reason to believe again after an undefeated regular season.

Of course, whereas some Catholics would say Pope Francis is also a cause for concern (although washing women's feet on Holy Thursday is a topic for another day) many die-hard Domers would point out that a 42-14 BCS loss to Alabama is a far cry from a National Championship. But here we must remember that Rockne's model for making Notre Dame the nation's "flagship" Catholic university was not from the top (administration and faculty) down, but from the bottom (players and fans) up. Similarly, if Francis' style is to succeed, it may be from the laity inspiring the clergy instead of the other way around.

So while I urge you to spend the day remembering the great feat Christ performed for the faithful, take a few moments (perhaps during a commercial of the day's many sporting events) to recall what the Fighting Irish's most famous convert did for Notre Dame (and the sports and faith apostolate) too. For how often do you get a chance to sing "Jesus Christ is Risen Today" and "The Notre Dame Fight Song" on the same day?

Pope Francis, and Blessed Aloysius and Blessed Agnellus: how the saints chose Bergoglio for pope

Let’s not be naive, we’re not talking about a simple political battle; it is a destructive pretension against the plan of God. We are not talking about a mere bill, but rather a machination of the Father of Lies that seeks to confuse and deceive the children of God. –Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio (now Pope Francis) on the issue of gay marriage

A frightful cataclysm may be about to change the face of the world. Let us trust wholly in God...corruption and evil are indeed rampant, but I still maintain that God will triumph in the end. –Blessed Aloysius Orione, predicting the horrors of WWII shortly before his death in 1940

Francis, rebuild my Church. –Jesus Christ, speaking in a vision to St. Francis of Assisi

Pope Francis

Although the prognosticators were puzzled and the oddsmakers baffled at the elevation of the holy old cardinal, Jorge Mario Bergoglio, to the first Pope Francis, the saints of the day had the selection pegged perfectly. Here's why, based on the blesseds the Church celebrated during the past two days, I believe Bergoglio had to become our next pope.

Bye bye (Pope) Benedict, hello 'Gay Mafia': can the family save the papacy?

In order for such evil to be concealed and tolerated, it is necessary that the right people hold key positions, and that not only a homolobby, but a homoclique or a homomafia is created. –Fr Dariusz, from his report "With the Pope against Homoheresy"

It can hardly be denied now...in light of this [report] that one of the big struggles the pope has had to deal with has been the issue of disobedient and uncooperative bishops and even cardinals who are either homosexual themselves or involved in a cover-up of the homosexual network or at the bare minimum covering up sex abuse cases. This whole mess is almost beyond belief...until you understand the degree of infiltration and effectiveness of this network of homosexual prelates and clergy...reaching into the Vatican itself. –Michael Voris, from his Feb. 25 broadcast of "The Vortex"

Back in the spring of 2009, I wrote a series of pointed blogs warning about the many potential evils of allowing our "Culture of Death" president, Barack Obama, to not only speak but be honored at the University of Notre Dame Commencement, first appealing to ND president, Fr. John Jenkins, then to the local bishop, and finally to Pope Benedict himself. "Surely the pope will intervene into this righteous cause," I told myself, but my pleas went unheeded. And as predicted, the evil did come, first with Obama being re-elected by dazzled but ill-informed Catholics, and then by Obama stabbing the Church in the back by making certain Catholic practices illegal with his HHS mandate.

Bobby Jindal: the next St. Thomas More or another "stupid party-er"?

Gov. Bobby Jindal

When Bobby Jindal, Louisiana governor and recently elected leader of the Republican Governor’s Association, recently reiterated that, “We must stop being the stupid party,” many in the party took notice. “We must reject the notion that demography is destiny, stop insulting the intelligence of voters...and accept that government number crunching–even conservative number crunching–is not the answer to our nation’s problems.” Instead of being the “party of austerity”; the "53 percent," Jindal urged the Republicans to be the party of "conservative compassion," stating, “The first step in getting the voters to like you is to demonstrate that you like them.” But as populist as that speech sounds, did the “unapologetic pro-life Republican,” and potential Catholic 2016 presidential candidate go too far by writing that “everyone who wants contraception should be able to purchase it,” and become another "Stupid Party" candidate himself?