I don’t’ think we’re in Kansas anymore

[Dawn Marie]

I don’t’ think we’re in Kansas anymore

An American Heartland scene:
grain elevators, church steeple
and town water tower

5-3-2012

As recently reported,[1] the city council of Hutchinson, Kansas is considering passing an ordinance that would require all churches to allow use of their facilities for same-sex “weddings” and receptions – even if this is against their beliefs.

Nicknamed the “Salt City” for the large salt mine that was once its pride of industry, Hutchinson is pretty typical of Midwestern plains cities. Situated smack dap in the middle-of-nowhere Kansas and surrounded by endless flat fields of corn, it’s a region where grain elevators are the only skyscrapers, so it’s no glittering Emerald City of Oz.

Thus considering its rural roots, this legislative proposal of the Hutchinson city council comes as a shock, since such overtly liberal, Christianophobic agendas are not commonly associated with Farmland USA, which is typically conservative and Christian (albeit often Protestant).

More importantly, this is an important indicator of the rapidly increasing efforts occurring in our country to illegitimately restrict the Catholic Church’s liberty – another rehashing of the State attempting to control the Church. Coupled with attempts to enforce immoralities as law, these challenges directed against the Church are not merely political maneuvers – as with the Investiture Controversy of the Middle Ages – but outright attacks against Christianity.

Thus what does the immediate future hold for such issues involving Church rights in city halls throughout the United States? Are Catholics prepared to defend the Church against such unlawful incursions of the State as many of their ancestors have, such as Pope St. Gregory VII and St. Thomas Beckett (martyred as a direct result of the Investiture Controversy)?

One hopes that Hutchinson’s city council, sitting atop so much salt – a Christian symbol of wisdom (as seen via rite of baptism) – will finally come to their senses (perhaps even Catholicus) and realize that such laws are not only contrary to the natural and Divine Law, but furthermore, constitute an open attack against Christ and His Mystical Body. For as history repeatedly demonstrates, when the State stands “against the Lord and against His Christ”, it ultimately fails.

Footnote

1 In article by LifeSiteNews, on April 24, 2012 titled, “Kansas law would force churches to host same-sex ‘weddings,’ receptions”.

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[Cathleen]

You would expect this sort of thing in maybe San Fransicko or New York (the Vampire State) but Kansas?  Maybe I am being naive.... :-p  Then I wonder about all the tornado activity lately in the Midwest and whether it is a coincidence?

I keep feeling like the other shoe is going to drop soon.  We must be ready to fight for our faith, maybe literally.

Our Lady of Fatima, please pray for and guide us.

[Cathleen]

On a brighter note, the voters in North Carolina passed an amendment yesterday banning "gay marriage."