{"id":3187,"date":"2008-03-13T17:40:10","date_gmt":"2008-03-13T22:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2008\/03\/13\/throwing-ashes\/"},"modified":"2008-03-13T17:40:10","modified_gmt":"2008-03-13T22:40:10","slug":"throwing-ashes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2008\/03\/throwing-ashes\/","title":{"rendered":"Throwing ashes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"blog\">A reader sent me a <a\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.lifesitenews.com\/ldn\/2008\/mar\/08031105.html\"\ntarget=\"_blank\">link to this story<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article\">March 11, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) &#8211; The<br \/>\nRainbow Sash Movement, a homosexual activist group, announced their<br \/>\nplans to protest Pope Benedict XVI&#8217;s opposition to homosexual behavior<br \/>\nduring his April visit to the United States.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>The RSM plans to throw ashes at the Pope, because &#8220;ashes are an ancient<br \/>\nand appropriate greeting for a sinner who has caused the Church so much<br \/>\ndivision and pain,&#8221; stated the movement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will also be greeting him with whistles; these were used by the<br \/>\nPolish People to show shame for the violation of human rights by the<br \/>\nCommunist Government prior to the end of the cold war,&#8221; added a RSM<br \/>\nstatement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are a community of Catholic GLBT along with our allies who work for<br \/>\nchange in the Church. To continue to hide our identity only enables<br \/>\nshame and homophobia.&nbsp; We are committed to working from within<br \/>\nthe Church,&#8221; says the movement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"blog\">Somehow I think they got this whole<br \/>\nconcept backwards. &nbsp;Traditionaly&nbsp;ashes were worn as a<br \/>\nsing of our sin and contrition. &nbsp;We don&#8217;t throw ashes at<br \/>\nothers because we think they they are in sin and don&#8217;t have contrition.<br \/>\n&nbsp;By this silly logic counter-protesters could throw ashes at<br \/>\nthe Rainbow Sash Movement. &nbsp;Previously they have made a Sash<br \/>\nof themselves and they continue to make an ash of themselves. But I<br \/>\nguess their backwards concept makes change because instead of changing<br \/>\nthemselves and growing in holiness, they have decided that the Church<br \/>\nmust change.<\/p>\n<p class=\"blog\">There press release is rather ironic since<br \/>\nthey are upset about the clergy abuse scandal which they said was<br \/>\ncaused by clericalism. &nbsp;Yeah clericalism caused the 81 percent<br \/>\nof sex crimes against&nbsp;pubescent boys (Ephebophilia).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A reader sent me a link to this story. March 11, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) &#8211; The Rainbow Sash Movement, a homosexual activist group, announced their plans to protest Pope Benedict XVI&#8217;s&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-punditry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}