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The newest way to hate: BAD (bleed through in reverse type on newspaper.)
Commentary on article by fr. David Trosch: Frances Coleman, Editorial Page Editor of the Mobile Register (Alabama's oldest newspaper) is bitter because she has been labeled an unrepentant sinner. Someone with almost non-existent funds has been able to challenge her presentation of evil that is opposed to the formal and binding teachings of the religion she professes to practice. Sadly she is but one small example of the multitudes of sinners in the Church and in the world. Her article becomes significant from the perspective that she is able to present her brand of evil in a public forum and is not being adequately challenged. If her editorial is syndicated then the greater is her destructive influence and consequent sin. Should she repent she should be aware of her strict obligation for restitution of truth. Her reference is to an article entitled: Distillation or DOOM. In it is developed an advanced concept of sodomy. Ms. Coleman in her original article is effectively providing encouragement to Catholics to ignore the teachings of their Church just as she has done. She still has not indicated any intention to repent. Her failure to accept truth and repent of her sins is what will condemn her to Hell, not my article or anything I could ever say will have that effect as Jesus is the sole final judge. She, like others both in and out of the Church, is in a state of self-determination which is in denial of truth. NOTE: I do not in any sense of the word have hatred for her. On the contrary as she is a member of the human family I desire her salvation. I pray for her repentance. Coleman, like many abortion providers and so called pro-choice people, cannot bring herself to call me Father (the normal reference for Catholics to use). She has, practically speaking, excommunicated me and thereby has condemned me to Hell, something, despite what she has said, I have not done to her. If she goes to Hell it will be because of her failure to repent. NOTE: The Catholic Church has not placed any charges against me. The fact is that Vatican theologians are split in regard to the position on Justifiable Homicide which I have elsewhere presented. In her article, amidst her blustering, she seems to be complaining that she is "but a minor blip on Trosch's web site" (http://www.trosch.org). Hopefully with the inclusion of this article on the web site she will no longer feel so unimportant. Coleman makes reference to St. Francis of Assisi (her patron Saint) but fails to place love into perspective. An article on this web site by Jack Keene entitled, "Who are the Real Victims?" helps to put some misbegotten concepts into perspective. Coleman's Article: How the face of hatred has changed. Used to, if somebody didn't like something you had written, you might get a torrent of angry letters and phone calls. Readers might even call your boss and demand that you be fired. If what you had written was deemed offensive enough, you might be viciously denounced from a governmental dais or a pulpit. Nor was your family immune from the sting of hateful attacks: Some one might make a scathing remark to your spouse over the produce at the local grocery store. But it was all fairly local, fairly contained, unless you were a Mike Royko or a William F. Buckley. Who was going to invest the money or time it would take to smear your name on a large-scale basis? Nobody -- until now. Now, for almost no monetary investment on the part of the hater, your name can be smeared and your reputation sullied around the world, just as mine are now being smeared and sullied. From the comfort of their living rooms in Afghanistan, Lima, Sidney or the Bronx, people from one corner of the globe to another can turn on their computers, punch a series of keys and call up an Internet web site whose pro-life pages drip with animated drops of blood. There, they will learn from the gospel according to David Trosch that I am a sexual pervert whose soul will spend eternity in hell. You may remember Trosch -- I cannot bring myself to call him Father -- as the Catholic priest who proclaimed that killing abortion doctors could be considered justifiable homicide. I lost my salvation it would seem, for writing a column in June 1997 that said the Southern Baptists' Disney boycott was destined to fail because, for better or worse, too many Americans of all stripes, including the Baptist faith, love Disney's movies, theme parks, television networks and toys for a boycott to be effective. Ask the Catholic Church, I said, about trying to make people do something they don't want to do: Despite the 1967 papal encyclical titled Humanae Vitae, surveys show that three-fourths of Catholic couples use artificial birth control. I added that my husband and I are among them. Trosch says: Ms. Coleman (term Ms. is herein used as a derogatory reference) errs when she states that encyclicals urge people to do -- or not to do -- something they don't -- or do -- want to do. Encyclicals such as Humanae Vitae instruct people on what is morally right or wrong. Their purpose is to help people decide whether (in effect) they want to go to Heaven or to Hell. Ms. Coleman -- now an admitted sodomite -- has now publicly stated that she wants to go to Hell. That is her choice. Her bishop, Archbishop Oscar H. Lipscomb, by not publicly admonishing her, has illustrated his intention of joining her in Hell. I do not recall stating publicly (or privately, for that matter) that I want to go to hell. Nor am I clear on why Trosch -- whose extremist views have been condemned by Catholic leaders as well as by his coworkers in the pro-life vineyard -- proclaims me to be a sodomite. As best I can tell from the dictionary, I am not one. But perhaps, interpreted loosely, a sodomite could be someone who writes kindly about homosexuals, who were the bane of the Bible's most notorious twin cities, Sodom and Gomorrah. And perhaps, interpreted even more loosely, a column that suggests that a boycott of Disney won't work is somehow kind to homosexuals. I am but a minor blip on Trosch's web site. God, abortion and Oscar Lipscomb, archbishop of Mobile, get pages and pages of attention, whereas I am damned to hell in a few sentences. Yet I reserve the right to be deeply awed and offended by a man of the cloth who has no fear that as he judges, he will one day be judged. And yes, I'm a little frightened that a priest would post my name on the Worldwide Web for other extremists to contemplate. But most of all, I am reminded that St. Francis of Assisi once beseeched his creator: Where there is hatred, let me bring your love. How ironic that eight centuries later, a man of God would beseech him to do the opposite.  Editor |
