Cuomo - You're NOT Catholic!

Let's take care of some business that apparently needs to be repeated... again... for the thousandth time...

Gov. Andrew Cuomo, you are NOT a Catholic.  Please, for the love of all that's sane and good in the world, STOP PARADING YOURSELF AROUND AS IF YOU ACTUALLY UNDERSTOOD WHAT BEING CATHOLIC MEANS.

You are about as far removed from Catholicism as it gets.  In fact, you're actively working AGAINST the Church and pretending it's all for the sake of equality.  Your stances on (and continued work for) such things as abortion and gay marriage effectively excommunicated you. 

Congrats!  What you did (and continue to do) was (and is!) so OUT-OF-LINE with the Church that you didn't even NEED your bishop to sign off on your excommunication!  The anti-Catholic acts which you CONTINUE to be a party to were cause enough to cut you off from the Church.  And since a "Catholic" like you probably has no idea how excommunication works, go look up Excommunication Latae Sententiae.  That oughta clear it up for you.

In fact, Cardinal Burke (who heads the highest court of the Vatican, BTW) hit home this point about Cuomo when he said,

• "Based on what is widely reported about the governor’s consistent support for abortion in New York, I see no other way to interpret his abortion-related conduct except as sufficient to warrant withholding of holy Communion from him under Canon 915... We find self-professed Catholics [Cafeteria Catholics, anyone?], for example, who sustain and support the right of a woman to procure the death of the infant in her womb, or the right of two persons of the same sex to the recognition which the State gives to a man and a woman who have entered into marriage. It is not possible to be a practicing Catholic and to conduct oneself publicly in this manner."
  

In other words, you can't say you love kittens when you're shooting them with bee bee guns.  You can't say you are concerned about the environment as you toss 30 plastic bottles out of your car as you speed down I-95.  You can't say you're a Catholic if you reject BASIC truths of our faith. 

So Gov. Cuomo, if you still had ANY confusion in that already mangled mind of yours, allow me to set you straight - you're not Catholic.  I don't care that you're not Catholic.  What I DO care about is your consistent proclamation that you ARE Catholic.  Do you have any idea how confusing that is to folks?  Let me explain it this way...

You frequent one of the nicest country clubs in the nation.  You know their dress code, you've abided by their dress code for a good ten years or so.  Then one day, you decide to walk in wearing cut-offs, flip flops and a t-shirt.  At first, folks are pretty taken aback when they see you.  The waitress probably pulled you aside and explained the dress code.  One or two of the patrons probably tried doing the same.  But you kept coming back, week after week, insisting that cut-offs, flip flops and Tees were perfectly normal attire. 

Those not part of the county club see you walk into the club and assume that's normal attire.  Even some IN the club - who KNOW better - begin to question the rules since you refuse to listen to the staff and continue to trample on their requests for you to adhere to the code.  See how things begin to get murky?

So if you wanna believe in abortion and gay marriage and even aliens from Jupiter, go right ahead.  Just don't call yourself a Catholic, because you're NOT and you bring shame to our name.  You are a disgrace, and I want your name NO WHERE NEAR my faith.  Until you come to terms with the fact that YOU don't get to write the rules of Catholicism, I don't want to hear the word "Catholic" fall from your lips again.

Dang it - this is why I'm so anti-Cafeteria Catholics.  They do more to destroy our faith than the atheists do! 

*Deep breath*

So what brought all this on?  On Wednesday, Gay City News reported a journalist asked Cuomo what he thought of the arguments against gay marriage that were presented to him.  His response? 

“There is no answer from the opposition. There really isn’t. Ultimately, it’s, ‘I want to discriminate.’ And that’s anti-New York. It’s anti-American.”

*Face palm*

So glad the repeated letters from several bishops, the citizen protests, the fact that almost all the other states refuse to participate in this farce, and the mountain of letters Cuomo and the NY representatives got leading up to this were "no answer."  I see...  good to know that we're all "anti-American" for voicing our opinions.  Good to know that this "anti-American" outpouring of vocalization in favor of the views held by the majority of voting citizens has labeled us so negatively by the Governor of NY.  Deplorable.

May God grant me patience.  I simply have no more for this man.  He needs prayers, specifically to the Holy Spirit.  May he have his eyes opened up to the Truth.  If he cannot reconcile his ideas with the Church, then may he at least understand his harm in continuing to call himself Catholic (especially one that partakes of the Eucharist).

In the meantime, let's pray for his Bishop and parish priests... may they have the brass to handle him accordingly with patience, charity and, if necessary, tough love.

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