Here’s reality: the Church exists to evangelize. Why do I note that? Because the whole controversy about things like gay wedding cakes seems to me to be stone blind to that fact. The response of conservative Christians has not, it seems to me, focused on evangelization in the slightest. It has focused on defending Fortress Katolicus from the attacking orcs that Christians perceive the larger culture to be. The whole world is Us vs. Them in that telling and They must be stopped. We’ll be damned before we let them make us do or say anything. We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender! And so we come to the struggle over wedding cakes and the larger struggle about the relationship of a Tradition that does not and cannot call a gay union a marriage with a culture that now says, “What’s the problem? Let people have their happy day.”

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# posted by Squach : 10:52 PM   |