Opinion
Jesus would have been flipping pews and taking names: an unrepentant pervert atheist whore given a funeral service in one of America’s most hallowed Catholic churches. Not, of course, that the Church itself is to blame: the cross-dressing creeps deliberately lied and deceived their way into the House of God. Church officials are rightly furious.
You don’t have to be a Catholic, or even religious, to realise what a disgustingly disrespectful act it was, all round.
The funeral of a renowned transgender activist in a New York City cathedral has been denounced by a senior church official, who called the mass a scandal within one of the pre-eminent houses of worship in American Catholicism.
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York condemned the funeral of Cecilia Gentili, which was held in St Patrick’s Cathedral in Manhattan and drew a large audience on Thursday.
It’s at this point that the hand-wringers and leftist will blither some pious nonsense about “But Jesus hung out with prostitutes, too!” Which misses the point that Jesus didn’t approve of the prostitute or the adulteress, much less celebrate their immorality. In fact, he told them to Go and sin no more. He told them to repent.
Whatever else Gentili, let alone those attending his funeral, were, it was clearly very far from repentant.
A former sex worker who suffered addiction and was previously jailed at New York’s Rikers Island, Gentili became a transgender health program coordinator, a nonprofit policy director for gay men’s health organisation GMHC, and a lobbyist for health equality and anti-discrimination legislation, among other advocacy work […]
“I am an atheist, but I am always asking God for things,” Gentili said in her autobiographical show Red Ink, touching on topics including her childhood in Argentina and lack of religious faith.
And just why would someone who didn’t even believe in God demand a Catholic funeral service?
The funeral’s organiser, Ceyenne Doroshow, told the New York Times that Gentili’s family had kept her background “under wraps” from the church, out of fear it would not host a funeral for a transgender person.
She reportedly said Gentili’s family wanted her funeral to be at St Patrick’s because “it is an icon, just like her”.
So, it’s all about the vanity of a dead tranny hooker. Really.
Not to mention the exhibitionist vanity of living perves.
Videos of Gentili’s funeral show an estimated audience of more than 1,000 celebrants, including transgender people and other friends and supporters chanting her name, applauding, singing and offering praise of her stature as a leading light of the city’s LGBTQI community.
During one eulogy that was widely circulated on social media, Gentili was celebrated as “Saint Cecilia, the mother of all whores”, to cheers from many of the mourners in attendance.
Another eulogist mocked the Lord’s Prayer.
St Patrick’s is a New York landmark, which has hosted the funerals of the likes of Robert Kennedy and the emergency responders murdered on 9/11.
In a written statement released on Saturday, St Patrick’s pastor Reverend Enrique Salvo said the church was “outraged” over what he called “scandalous behaviour” at Gentili’s funeral.
“The cathedral only knew that family and friends were requesting a funeral mass for a Catholic, and had no idea our welcome and prayer would be degraded in such a sacrilegious and deceptive way,” he said.
Mr Salvo called the behaviour at the mass a “scandal” and a “potent reminder of how much we need the prayer, reparation, repentance, grace, and mercy to which this holy season [of Lent] invites us”.
He said a mass of reparation had been offered at the direction of Timothy Dolan, the Archbishop of New York.
ABC Australia
C. S. Lewis once wrote, “spiritual nature, like bodily nature, will be served – deny it food and it will gobble poison”. And a whole host of other unmentionables.
And turn a house of God into a Turkish bath house.