Publicly manifesting and parading and thereby promoting one's perverse sexual preferences is a sin contrary to Church teaching, viz. the sin of scandal, and a mortally grave scandal at that.
That scandal is a crime which cries for vengeance from heaven. It appears that even Cardinals would do well to read anew the Baltimore Catechism.
Should we permit a masturbators' section in a town parade? an adulterers section? a child molesters section? It's the same thing.
This is what happens when priests (including bishops) play the psychologist, and thereby abandon basic Catholic common sense. This is simply a case of giving in to the ever increasingly hostile anti-Catholic/anti-God atmosphere in the American establishment.
It does not help when the shepherds do not cry wolf, but rather befriend the wolf as he devours the sheep and ends up devouring even the shepherds!
The only moral way the Cardinal can walk in this mockery of Saint Patrick is carrying a huge placard reading "homosex is a sin!" or "homosexuality is bad," "fugite fornicationem," or something to that effect. Otherwise the scandal is caused largely by him as the chief representative of God in that procession. All priests, and indeed all Catholics, Christians and men and women of good will have a moral obligation to boycott the Saint Patrick's Parade 2015 which has been hijacked by the homosexualists.
The Cardinal has fallen into the mighty and ambiguous "gay" trap. Has he forgotten the ninth commandment under which we are commanded to curb even our lusts! As a matter of fact the Church is clear that there is no such thing as an "gay" identity, to say so would indeed be a form of discrimination!
- PART THREE: LIFE IN CHRIST
- SECTION TWO THE TEN COMMANDMENTS
- CHAPTER TWO YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF
- Article 5 THE FIFTH COMMANDMENT
- II. Respect for the Dignity of Persons
- Article 5 THE FIFTH COMMANDMENT
- CHAPTER TWO YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF
- SECTION TWO THE TEN COMMANDMENTS
2284 Scandal is an attitude or behavior which leads another to do evil. the person who gives scandal becomes his neighbor's tempter. He damages virtue and integrity; he may even draw his brother intospiritual death. Scandal is a grave offense if by deed or omission another is deliberately led into a grave offense.
2285 Scandal takes on a particular gravity by reason of the authority of those who cause it or the weakness of those who are scandalized. It prompted our Lord to utter this curse: "Whoever causes one of theselittle ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a great millstone fastened round his neck and to be drowned in the depth of the sea."85 Scandal is grave when given by those who bynature or office are obliged to teach and educate others. Jesus reproaches the scribes and Pharisees on this account: he likens them to wolves in sheep's clothing.86
Therefore, they are guilty of scandal who establish laws or social structures leading to the decline of morals and the corruption of religious practice, or to "social conditions that, intentionally or not, makeChristian conduct and obedience to the Commandments difficult and practically impossible."87 This is also true of business leaders who make rules encouraging fraud, teachers who provoke their children toanger,88 or manipulators of public opinion who turn it away from moral values.