Belgian homosexual activists have brought charges against Mgr André-Mutien Léonard, the Roman-Catholic bishop of Namur, for homophobia, a criminal offense in Belgium according to the country’s 2003 Anti-Discrimination Act. In an interview last April in the Walloon weekly, Télé Moustique, the bishop is said to have described homosexuals as “abnormal” people. According to Michel Graindorge, the activists’ lawyer, the bishop intended to “stigmatize” homosexuals, whose “identity and dignity is debased from the moment that the bishop considers them to be abnormal.”
Liberty Letters Comment: The assault on religious freedom by these “courageous” “freedom fighters” continues. The inspired Christian approach has always been “hate the sin, love the sinner,” or in other words, love men despite their imperfections; but, nevertheless, but nevertheless, call sin, sin; and where necessary, deal with it, especially when the consequences of those sins harm others. But these communist revolutionaries masquerading as freedom fighters would have us not only love the sinner, but love the sin; or call sin virtue – while all the while they would have the state suppress and persecute virtue and the virtuous, so that they might turn the world upside down, shake out and shake down the existing moral order, creating a moral vacuum to be filled with humanism, socialism, fascism, and communism; or at last, complete slavery for all under the boot of the ruling elite … you know under that cruel and oppressive foot of the benevolent leaders of today’s civil rights movements, con men, who sucker every sort of misfit, miscreant, and misdirected individual into believing they care, and that they have a political solution.
