{"id":14551,"date":"2013-12-03T18:54:01","date_gmt":"2013-12-03T23:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/?p=14551"},"modified":"2013-12-03T18:54:01","modified_gmt":"2013-12-03T23:54:01","slug":"why-in-the-world-is-the-usccb-blog-promoting-sr-helen-prejean-csj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2013\/12\/why-in-the-world-is-the-usccb-blog-promoting-sr-helen-prejean-csj\/","title":{"rendered":"Why in the world is the USCCB Blog promoting Sr. Helen Prejean, CSJ?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Why in the world is the USCCB Blog promoting<\/a> Sr. Helen Prejean, CSJ? Despite what good work she might have done involving the death penalty she is also involved in serious errors. She is not an example to parade on the USCCB blog.<\/p>\n

At the Democratic National Convention in 2008 she spoke to an interfaith crowd<\/a> saying:<\/p>\n

She received nothing but a stony silence, however, when she questioned the basis of the biblical crucifixion story as a \u201cprojection of our violent society.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIs this a God?\u201d Prejeans asked about the belief that God allowed his son, Jesus, to be sacrificed for the sins of humanity. \u201cOr is this an ogre?\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So much for St. Paul\u2019s \u201cwe preach Christ crucified.\u201d<\/p>\n

The previous year in 2007, she had this to say<\/a>:<\/p>\n

(A)ccording to Sister Helen Prejean, author of the best-selling book Dead Man Walking, and internationally-renowned advocate against the death penalty, it is the Church\u2019s doctrine on homosexuality that is sinful, as it fails to recognize \u201cthe full dignity of all human beings.\u201d<\/p>\n

Speaking on Sunday at the close of the symposium, Prejean noted that the first steps in denying and \u201cremoving\u201d a human being is to declare them somehow \u201cnot quite human, not like how we are \u2026 to say that they\u2019re \u2018disordered\u2019\u201d \u2013 a reference to the language of the Vatican to describe the orientation of gay people. Such terminology, she said, fails to recognize the full dignity of all human beings and is the \u201cgreatest form of disrespect.\u201d<\/p>\n

Accordingly, \u201cto not stand with LGBT people would be a sin,\u201d declared Prejean to thunderous applause.<\/p>\n

Prejean said that she is hopeful as she\u2019s convinced that \u201cpeople are waking and rising,\u201d and that this will \u201cchange the Church.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen dialogue starts, the bread starts rising,\u201d she said. \u201cThe yeast, the Holy Spirit, is in our hearts.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In 2006 she was one of the signers of an ad in the New York Times that in part said \u201cYOUR GOVERNMENT is moving to deny women here, and all over the world, the right to birth control and abortion.\u201d After being disinvited by Duluth Bishop Dennis Schnurr to be a keynote speaker at an education dinner she later clarified \u201cI believe that all of life is sacred and must be protected, especially in the vulnerable stages at the beginning of life and its end.\u201d Yet she still managed to sign this document while at the same time saying: \u201c I stand squarely within the framework of \u201dthe seamless garment\u201c ethic of life.\u201d A year after this in the July-August 1997 St. Catherine Review: Sister Prejean \u201cwill not take a stand against abortion.\u201d She has also said if she got a chance to talk to President Obama it would only be about his support of the death penalty. She can find nothing else to chide him about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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