WHITE HOUSE INVITES SEVERAL OPPONENTS OF CATHOLIC TEACHING TO GREET POPE FRANCIS...
President Obama will apparently test
just how far Pope Francis’ notorious tolerance will go by inviting a rogue’s
gallery of people opposed to Catholic teaching to greet the pontiff at the
White House during his visit next week.
In a stunning show of
political indecorum, Obama has invited a series of individuals who publicly
flout Catholic teaching, including a pro-abortion religious sister, a
transgender woman and the first openly gay Episcopal bishop, along with at
least two Catholic gay activists.
The White House was illuminated in gay pride
colors on June 26, 2015, after the Supreme Court legalized gay same-sex
marriage.
One of the invitees, retired
Episcopal bishop Gene Robinson,
made history by becoming the first openly gay episcopal bishop in 2003 and
subsequently the first to divorce his gay partner in 2014, after having
previously separated from his wife of 14 years. He has attended a number of
religious events with the Obama administration, offering a prayer at President
Obama’s inauguration in 2009 and taking part in the 2014 National Prayer
Breakfast.
Mateo Williamson, a cross-dressing woman
and former co-chairman of the Transgender Caucus for Dignity USA, has also
received an invitation to the White House for Pope Francis’ visit. Williamson
says that though she now thinks of herself as a man, she continues to be
attracted to males. “Today I identify as a gay man and before that was
difficult to understand because I thought that in order to be transgender, in
order to be a transgender male that I had to be attracted to females but I
never have throughout my entire life.”
Though Pope Francis
has said that he doesn’t believe in judging persons and is ready to welcome
anyone in Christ’s name, he has also said that Catholics do not accept the
modern mentality of transgenderism and once said that gay marriage is the
devil’s “attempt to destroy God’s plan.”
“The acceptance of
our bodies as God’s gift,” Francis wrote in his encyclical letter on the
environment, “is vital for welcoming and accepting the entire world as a gift
from the Father and our common home, whereas thinking that we enjoy absolute
power over our own bodies turns, often subtly, into thinking that we enjoy
absolute power over creation.”
Earlier this month, the Vatican
officially prohibited transgender persons from being baptismal godparents
posing as the opposite sex from which they were born.
In its response, the
Vatican Doctrinal Congregation said that “transsexual behavior publicly reveals
an attitude contrary to the moral imperative of resolving the problem of one’s
sexual identity according to the truth of one’s sexuality.”
Another White House invitee for the Pope’s visit, Sister
Simone Campbell, is the pro-abortion executive director of
the social justice lobby NETWORK. Campbell fought against the U.S. bishops when
Obama’s Affordable Care Act was originally being debated, in an attempt to
undermine their abortion and conscience concerns.
Sister Campbell will attend two events:
the White House reception and Pope Francis’ address to Congress on Wednesday. Campbell
famously helped organize the “Nuns on the Bus” a tour by Catholic religious
women to protest the budget of then-Senator Rep. Paul Ryan
“A few months ago I
received an invitation from the White House to attend the reception for Pope
Francis,” Taylor told CNS News. “I was told I could bring several friends with
me,” adding that he is “glad we can bring some LGBT representation to the
event."
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