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The message is, that any private organizations that won't agree to allow outsiders to dictate their policies will remain 'controversial' until they have been breached. One such of these is the Boy Scouts of America who have been picketed, pilloried and de-funded yet still refuse to allow gay men to mentor their young charges.

You would think that those who decry the Scouts' stand would have learned something from the American Catholic Church's experience with the sexual abuse of minors. Since most of the victims of that scandalous outrage were adolescent boys and all of the perpetrators men, the evidence suggests that homosexual behavior was at its root.

In seeking to protect these predators from legal prosecution, some bishops erred gravely against their moral and civic responsibilities. By not acknowledging and purging non-celibate gay priests from their ranks, they impugned the chastity of all who take seriously their religious vows.

Those who take those vows and those to whom they minister are compelled to complete fidelity to the teachings of the church whose head is the pope, the successor to St. Peter. To believe that the next pope or any future pope would or could change the basic precepts of the faith flies in the face of scripture and 2,000 years of tradition.

Some of the issues that the Times and its disturbed Catholics seek change on were decided even before the Church was formally established and so are impossibilities; so much so that my own parish priest bet his soul on it. If the gates of hell will not prevail against the Church, the Old Gray Lady hasn't much of a chance, determined though she may be.

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Lisa Fabrizio is a columnist who hails from Connecticut. You may write her at mailbox@lisafab.com.

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Note -- The opinions expressed in this column are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the opinions, views, and/or philosophy of GOPUSA.

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