iConfess: Homosexual Bullying
A homosexual bully in the UK is sticking his manicured claws into the burgeoning popularity of a required iPhone application, “Confession: A Roman Catholic App” because one of the questions in the review of conscience is “Have I been guilty of any homosexual activity?” and the application just jumped to the 26th most popular in the UK.
Wayne Bensen, professional homosexual bully, Founding Executive Director of Truth Wins Out (TWO) and author of “Anything But Straight: Unmasking the Scandals and Lies Behind the Ex-Gay Myth” (Haworth, 2003) is quoted in the Guardian as saying:
“This is cyber spiritual abuse that promotes backward ideas in a modern package. Gay Catholics don’t need to confess, they need to come out of the closet and challenge anti-gay dogma. The false idea that being gay is something to be ashamed of has destroyed too many lives. This iPhone app is facilitating and furthering the harm.”
Mr. Bensen apparently wishes elevate himself to Pope and provide leadership to Catholics and Christians the world over. To proclaim that any Catholic should or should not review with reverence and deep contrition one’s personal sins in preparation for the Sacrament of Reconciliation is to place oneself above the Church as well as God. To further specify that only “Gay Catholics” are excused from confession or from seeking reconciliation is testament to Mr. Bensen’s ignorance of the faith. Confession and preparation applies to all Catholics, not just the beautiful people or the weak in faith. It is an essential part of keeping oneself in the state of Grace and worthy of receiving Communion.
TWO is also unaware of some of the application’s unpublicized features which include:
- Facial recognition software for determining level of contrition and homosexuality
- Upload of homosexuality questionnaire results to central database at iGod
- GPS for locating the nearest Church
- Lie detection software that measures body temperature and heartrate
- Remote lockout feature for those that confess homosexuality too frequently
For those in the Church, who are not homosexual, they are called to express compassion and lend aid to those on their journey of faith.
“The number of men and women who have deep-seated homosexual tendencies is not negligible. This inclination, which is objectively disordered, constitutes for most of them a trial. They must be accepted with respect, compassion, and sensitivity. Every sign of unjust discrimination in their regard should be avoided. These persons are called to fulfill God’s will in their lives and, if they are Christians, to unite to the sacrifice of the Lord’s Cross the difficulties they may encounter from their condition.”
Truth Wins Out (TWO) is a group that plans and conducts ineffective culture wars against Christians on behalf of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered (LGBT) people. A recent evangelical target has been the American Family Association in the United States. TWO assumed the dandy duties of HR manager in this case and called for the resignation of a Family Association employee. While Mr. Bensen is not an American, nor employed with AFA, he feels empowered to make employment decisions for American companies because of bigotry towards Americans.
In summary, Catholic Christians are pretty ensconced with the idea of homosexuality as sin and are obliged to respect those with the tendencies. LGBT people seem to be rooted in starting fights over anything dealing with Christians, even when it makes sense or not. If iTunes could maybe charge a fee for this application, and the free market was allowed to determine if a consumer wanted or needed it – viola! LGBT people would not be required to use the iConfess or have it on their iPhone.
Everyone should write an email to Steve Jobs requesting this change immediately.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/feb/13/catholic-app-iphone-gay-rights
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Author: tdomf_15f10
9:14 am
Is this satire or are Catholics really this moronic
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10:21 am
So…exactly how are gays bullying Christians?
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3:37 pm
Did Stevie replace his pen name with Blanche?
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4:00 pm
“Mr. Bensen apparently wishes elevate himself to Pope and provide leadership to Catholics and Christians the world over”
so because he is not a christian leader he has no right to tell christians what to do or not do… intrsting idea. well that means that most of the articles on this site are unjustified as they are christians telling nonchristian what to do and not do something you do not have a right to aparently.
see it’s all well and good untill it’s sudenly you guys at the reciveing end right?
oh and by the way this is nopt bullying. it’s controversy remeber?
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4:06 pm
did he force you to be gay ? I don’t think so he just give a chance for everyone to finally stop being homophobe and finally come to the light
if you are not gay or lesbian you are not scared for that
oh also miss blanche : almost every antigay crusader are closeted homosexual
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4:07 pm
Like Glenn Beck, sometimes two chalkboards are needed to reveal the truth. Stay tuned.
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4:17 pm
Fascinating read BB. I will have to admit that most of this article went right over my head. The amount of knowledge you accumulate in your journalism is astounding! Even though I don’t understand these internets much, I do know that bullying is wrong.
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5:48 am
blindly following people without even understanding what it is they are saying is more wrong. if you don’t understand the subject how can you be sure that anyone is bullying anyone?
this is what’s wrong with christianity. the incredibel amount of blind sheep that just do or belive what ever they are told and are willing to follow lies because they heard it froma “rigthous person” so it must be true.
if you are to ill informaed to undersatnd the subject you are too ill informed to have an openion. end of discussion.
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12:57 pm
I stand by my statement that “bullying is wrong”.
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4:17 pm
heh Blanche just fall for it
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6:17 pm
The question asking if the penitant is guilty of homosexual activity is quite valid. Homosexual activity is mortally sinful, and those who die unrepentant of it face eternal damnation. Homosexual groups can rail all they want, but they cannot ever change the moral law of God.
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6:23 pm
You know, Jesus was apparently pretty pro-love. He told his followers that they should “love thy neighbour”, and that your neighbour was EVERYONE.
I fail to see what is so “immoral” about love between two consenting adults, regardless of gender or sex. Two of my dearest friends in the world are lesbians, are in a relationship together, and are Christian; one of them says her prayers every night before going to bed. For people to say that they are “going to hell” simply because of their sexuality is morally wrong; their love for each other certainly isn’t.
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6:31 pm
As an Atheist, you are incapable of love. As a Narcissist and unrepentant homo-gay you really are just promoting your own agenda. This is painfully obvious.
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5:53 am
are you afraid that bigfoot will come and bite you head of? i asume you aren’t.
so why should i fear hell when i don’t belive there is such a thing? why should i follow the moiral code of a farietale when i have the brain capcity follow my own moral without being tempted to do horid things without haveing the ever present punishment of hell dangelæing over my head.
also considering the amount of times the moral laws of god have been rewritten by now i’d say anyone has a decent shot at doing it if they try.
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11:35 am
Christians have a twisted sense of morality, Johnson, especially since parts of the bible advocate rape, torture, bloddletting, starvation, etc. etc. etc.
Christians are responsible for more deaths (see The Crusades) than any other religion.
Take the plank out of your eye before you try to take the splinter out of mine.
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1:08 pm
I refuse to listen to a man whose name also happens to be slang for penis.
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1:13 pm
Good thing you didnt have to be alive when Lyndon B. Johnson was president.
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