UPDATE, UPDATE! HALLMARK RENIGS ON DECISION TO PULL ADS AND WILL SHOW SAME SEX STUFF.
Hallmark Channel pulls same-sex ‘wedding’ ads after viewer backlash
The ads were aired in error, according to the CEO of Hallmark's parent company.
Sanitized scene from this weekend's TGIFriday's Restaurant commercial:
Is it inevitable that this will take place?
Last night as I was watching TV I saw several times a commercial for the TGIFriday's restaurant. There were very quick images of two men kissing each other on the lips and other same sex and multi-sex forms of affection shown. At first, I thought to myself, because it happened so fast, did I really see what I thought I saw?
Does any of this really matter? The dam has burst and trying to return to any sanity as it regards avoiding offending anyone on TV is long gone. In your face irreverence is the hallmark, if you would pardon my use of that word, of television today, especially cable TV or Internet based TV.
And let's talk about the elephant in the room, the easy availability and accessibility of all kinds of pornography that children and many others are accessing in their homes and a variety of electronic devises no matter how much their parent may try to prevent it.
Gone With the Wind was on TCM Friday night. There were passionate kisses in the 1939 movie, all heterosexual and most between Scarlet and her boyfriends.
Will we see an epoch movie like GWTW where the intrigue of romance, fidelity and infidelity loom large for gay couples?
And what role does the Church play in all of this, like us poor rank and file priests in parishes and what role do parents play and Catholics in the public square?
Stayed tune.
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Perhaps we should join His Holiness Pope Francis in the following:
From 2015 A.D, Washington Post:
In an interview published Monday by Argentinian newspaper La Voz del Pueblo, the pontiff said he hasn’t watched television since 1990, owing it to a promise he made on July 15, 1990, to the Virgin Mary.
When asked if any particular reason pushed him into such a decision, he simply said: “It’s not for me.”
Pax.
Mark Thomas
The Church teaches that both the unitive and procreative aspects are necessary and inseparable to what constitutes a marriage which is valid according to God's just design. A Divinely-ordained marriage must be open, as far as the hearts and intentions of the spouses, and in accordance with God's design of the human body, to the generation of new life.
When a married couple, according to God's plan has a Christian sexual ethos, which is to say one which is spiritually healthy and rightly ordered, then this helps to build up the Body of Christ. It is one that is selfless and not selfish and puts the pleasurable aspect of sex in the proper perspective and does not hold to it as an end in itself. It is seen as the means to a more noble end.
Marriage cannot be predicated on pleasure alone. This is because pleasure is of a lower order, and while a good, if it is sought as an end in itself it will dull and even corrupt one's spiritual life and relationship to God, and so will adversely affect a marriage. Married life must be balanced out by sacrifice and self-giving and if it is to endure and develop properly, it must include God.
If a couple can no longer conceive because of advanced age or other issues, the important thing is that it cannot be said that there is a deliberate act on their part to thwart the transmission of life.
The operative principle here is: “Are you co-operating with God in what He intended or are you thwarting His Holy Will?” In the older couple, the procreative aspect of the marriage union has run its course according to the natural Divine order of things and how God intended it.
What of couples of childbearing age who are childless for no fault of their own? God does look at good intentions and not just results. As long as the desire of a couple is (or was) to have children, then there is nothing sinful about the marriage act. Is or was the marriage always open to the transmission of life (even if that possibility is remote)?
Marriage, in accordance to God's Divine Will and His munificent design, in its sacramental and covenantal reality, contains and proclaims in its different aspects, as does every Sacrament, both the Temporal and the Eternal, both the Natural and the Supernatural, both the mundane and the Transcendent.
It is really not necessary, Father, to put the picture of the men in almost a kissing pose. We all get the idea without you showing us.
Hallmark has reversed its decision and will show the commercial which they said they wouldn't show. They apologized to the LGBTQ community. That's the point of the sanitized photo above from a restaurant commercial shown to the general public. You'll be seeing more of this on public media, in the public and at Mass during the Sign of Peace. What to do, oh what to do, oh what are we to do, I ask again.
Well, you've done what you usually do with your, fretting, wringing hands, sputtering about "rank and file" parish priest, etc.
Now, if you REALLY want to do something, go feed the hungry, visit the imprisoned, clothe the naked, give drink to the thirsty, and welcome the stranger.
Or, you can just continue the sputtering...
Wow! Are you really suggesting that sputtering means none of the other things are being taken care of? And are you suggesting that moral and social problems are not a part of the corporal and spiritual works of mercy and finding ways to address these???? WOW, WOW, WOW! Is all I can write and sputter!
Anonymous "Paul Lynde" sure has it in for Father..... get a life guy - stalking is really weird.
...and the sputtering continues.
If, after all the years you have been ordained you still haven't found ways to address these moral and social problems, I suggest you will still be looking in another 10 or 20 years.
Bon chance!
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