Monsignor Yennock on Prophets and the Sexual Revolution - Homily from September 27, 2020

TWENTY SIXTH SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

PROPHETS AND THE SEXUAL REVOLUTION

 IN 1948 WINSTON CHURCHILL SAID THOSE WHO FAIL TO LEARN FROM HISTORY ARE CONDEMNED TO REPEAT IT. WHAT DO WE LEARN FROM HISTORY? WHAT DO WE LEARN FROM THE PROPHETS?

 

 IN THE SIXTH CENTURY BEFORE CHRIST, THE PROPHET EZEKIEL IN THE FIRST READING, IS DEFENDING THE INTEGRITY OF GOD BEFORE THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL, THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL DID NOT LEARN FROM HISTORY.  THEY NOT ONLY IGNORED AND REJECTED THE PROPHETS THEY ALSO STONED MANY OF THEM TO DEATH.

 

TWICE THEY WERE TAKEN INTO CAPTIVITY. IN THE EIGHTH CENTURY B.C. THEY WERE TAKEN CAPTIVE TO ASSYRIA FOR NOT LISTENING TO THE PROPHETS. IN THE SIXTH CENTURY B.C. THEY WERE HAULED OFF TO BABYLON FOR NOT LISTENING TO THE PROPHETS.IN BOTH CAPTIVITIES, THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL WATCHED THEIR KINGDOM BE DESTROYED. THE MIGHTY WERE FALLEN. THEY LOST EVERYTHING. WHY? THEY NOT ONLY TOOK THEIR EYES OFF GOD, BUT THEY REJECTED THE THINGS OF GOD, AND IGNORED THE WARNINGS THAT GOD SENT THEM THROUGH THE PROPHETS.

IN 70 A.D. THE ROMANS SURROUNDED THE CITY OF JERUSALEM; STARVED THE INHABITANTS AND FINALLY WENT INTO THE CITY AND MASSACRED MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN. THEY DESTROYED THE MAGNIFICENT TEMPLE. AFTER THE DESTRUCTION OF THE CITY OF JERUSALEM, THE JEWS DISPERSED TO THE FOUR CORNERS OF THE WORLD AND HAD NO HOMELAND UNTIL 1948.

A BIG PRICE TO PAY FOR IGNORING HISTORY AND THE PROPHETS.

LET US FAST FORWARD TO THE YEAR 2020 IN PARIS, FRANCE. THIS PAST SUMMER THE FRENCH DEPUTIES GATHERED TO DECIDE ON THE COUNTRY’S BIOETHICS POLICIES FOR THE COMING YEARS. YOU ARE NOT GOING TO BELIEVE THIS.

 

THE FRENCH DEPUTIES ARE PROPOSING A BILL BEFORE THEIR PARLIAMENT TO LITERALLY ESTABLISH A PROCREATION MARKET. THIS MARKET WILL TURN HUMAN BEINGS INTO RAW MATERIALS. HUMAN BEINGS WILL BE TURNED INTO GAMETES, EMBRYOS, HORMONES, AND BODY PARTS.

 

THE PROMOTERS OF THIS BILL WANT TO SEE PROCREATION SEPARATED FROM SEXUALITY. THEY WANT TO MAKE CONCEPTION A MERE MECHANICAL ACT CONTROLLED BY TECHNOLOGY. THEY WANT TO CREATE A PROCREATION MARKET.

 

ANYONE BROUGHT UP IN THE JUDEO-CHRISTIAN WORLDVIEW SHOULD BE SHOCKED AND DISGUSTED WITH SUCH A DISTORTION OF GOD’S BEAUTIFUL PLAN FOR MARRIAGE, FAMILY AND HUMAN SEXUALITY.YET, THIS FRENCH IDEA IS NOT ENTIRELY NEW. PLANNED PARENHOOD IN OUR COUNTRY IS ALREADY HARVESTING AND SELLING ABORTED BODY PARTS TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER. THEY ARE RECEIVING GOVERNMENT MONEY TO KILL OVER 600,000 BABIES A YEAR.

THIS NEW ETHICS IS A BATTLE AGAINST NATURE AND THE JUDEO-CHRISTIAN WORLDVIEW. THIS NEW ETHICS NOW INFLUENCES POLITICIANS TO SEPARATE PERSONAL FAITH FROM THE PUBLIC FORUM.  I AM PERSONALLY AGAINST ABORTION BUT MY FAITH DOES NOT INFLUENCE MY PUBLIC LIFE.  

 

IN 1960 FAITH WAS SEPARATED FROM THE PUBLIC FORUM IN TEXAS BY A CATHOLIC PRESIDENT. IN 1984 FAITH WAS SEPARATED FROM THE PUBLIC FORUM AT NOTRE DAME BY A CATHOLIC GOVERNOR. IN 1992 FAITH WAS SEPARATED FROM THE PUBLIC FORUM BY A CATHOLIC SUPREME COURT JUSTICE. IN THE DECISION OF PLANNED PARENTHOOD VS. CASEY THE SUPREME COURT JUSTICE IN 1992 CLAIMED THAT A  PERSON SHOULD HAVE THE RIGHT TO DEFINE HIS OWN CONCEPT OF EXISTENCE, OF MEANING OF THE UNIVERSE AND THE MYSTERY OF HUMAN LIFE. ON JANUARY 22, 2019, A CATHOLIC GOVERNOR SIGNED A HEALTH ACT THAT REMOVED ALL LEGAL PROTECTION FOR WOMEN AND UNBORN CHILDREN FROM ILLEGAL ABORTION. IT REMOVED ABORTION FROM THE PENAL CODE. IT ALLOWED INFANTICIDE.

 

THERE YOU HAVE IT. WE HAVE COMPLETELY SEPARATED THE JUDEO-CHRISTIAN VALUE SYSTEM FROM THE PUBLIC FORUM. .

 

WITHOUT A VALUE SYSTEM ANARCHY, MORAL CHAOS, SEXUAL CHAOS, RACIAL CHAOS AND SOCIETAL CHAOS HAVE RAISED THEIR UGLY HEADS.  

DID ANY PROPHETS LIKE EZEKIEL AND JEREMIAH IN OUR MODERN AGE, WARN US ABOUT THE ANARCHY AND CHAOS?

 

IN 1908 AN ENGLISH WRITER, G.K. CHESTERTON MADE INCREDIBLE PREDICTIONS THROUGH A NOVEL ENTITLED THE MAN WHO WAS THURSDAY.  

CHESTERTON PREDICTED, IN 1908 THAT "THE MARCH OF HUMAN PROGRESS" WOULD BE CONTRACEPTION, FOLLOWED BY ABORTION, FOLLOWED BY INFANTICIDE.

CHESTERTON PREDICTED IN 1908 THAT THE RESULT OF FRIVOLOUS DIVORCE WOULD BE FRIVOLOUS MARRIAGE.

CHESTERTON PREDICTED IN 1908 THAT THE EXAGGERATION OF SEX WOULD LEAD TO DIMINISHING THE MEANING OF SEX. TRIVIALIZING SEX WOULD LEAD TO EACH SEX-- TRYING TO BE BOTH SEXES AT ONCE. DOES THAT SOUND FAMILIAR?

CHESTERTON PREDICTED IN 1908 THAT BIRTH CONTROL, WHICH WAS FIRST ENCOURAGED UNDER THE MANTLE OF EUGENICS, WAS RACISTBIRTH CONTROL WAS AN ATTEMPT AMONG THE ELITES TO KEEP THE "UNDESIRABLE" FROM HAVING CHILDREN.

THIS REMINDS US OF THE WORDS OF JUSTICE RUTH BADER GINSBURG, MAY SHE REST IN PEACE. THIS IS WHAT SHE SAID: “FRANKLY I HAD THOUGHT THAT AT THE TIME ROE WAS DECIDED, THERE WAS CONCERN ABOUT POPULATION GROWTH AND PARTICULARLY GROWTH IN POPULATIONS THAT WE DON'T WANT TO HAVE TOO MANY OF.”

EVEN BEFORE THE DISCOVERY OF THE BIRTH CONTROL PILL CHESTERTON PREDICTED THE TECHNOLOGICAL REVOLUTION OF MODERN CONTRACEPTION. CONTRACEPTION DESTROYS THE EVIDENCE OF ILLICIT SEX.  CONTRACEPTION MAKES POSSIBLE SEX ON DEMAND. CONTRACEPTION HAS FUELLED A SEXUAL REVOLUTION.

THE CONTRACEPTIVE PILL SEPARATED PROCREATION FROM SEXUAL ACTIVITY. THIS UNNATURAL SEPARATION IS AT THE HEART OF THE SEXUAL REVOLUTION.

IN 1968 POPE PAUL VI IN HIS ENCYCLICAL, HUMANAE VITAE, PREDICTED THE CONSEQUENCES OF SEPARATING PROCREATION FROM SEXUAL ACTIVITY.  HE PREDICTED THE SHOCKING STATISTICS THAT WE HAVE TODAY ON OUT-OF-WEDLOCK BIRTHS, ABORTION, COHABITATION, ADULTERY, DIVORCE, AND A PANDEMIC OF SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES. POPE PAUL VI PREDICTED THAT THE UNNATURAL USE OF SEX WOULD LEAD TO THE PRATICE AND ACCEPTANCE OF SODOMY. 

SOME SOCIOLOGISTS WERE ALSO PROPHETIC IN REGARD TO THE SEXUAL REVOLUTION.

IN 1947 A HARVARD SOCIOLOGIST, CARLE ZIMMERMAN, WROTE A BOOK CALLED FAMILY AND CIVILIZATION. HE CRITICIZED THE SOCIAL CHANGES UNLEASHED BY MODERN CONTRACEPTION. HE PROPHESIED THAT THE UNITED STATES WILL REACH THE FINAL PHASES OF A GREAT FAMILY CRISIS BETWEEN (1947) AND THE LAST OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY. HE COMPARED THIS CRISIS TO THE CRISIS IN ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME THAT DESTROYED THOSE CIVILIZATIONS.  

IN I956, THE SOCIOLOGIST, PITIRIM SOROKIN — FOUNDER OF HARVARD'S DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY—WROTE A BOOK ON THE COMING OF THE SEXUAL REVOLUTION.  

SOROKIN SAID: "SEX OBSESSION NOW BOMBARDS US, CONTINUOUSLY, FROM CRADLE TO GRAVE.

SOROKIN LINKED “SEX FREEDOM” AND “SEX ANARCHY” TO A LONG LIST OF CRITICAL SOCIAL ILLSRISING DIVORCE RATES, ILLEGITIMACY, WITH ABANDONED AND NEGLECTED CHILDREN; A COARSENING OF THE ARTS HIGH AND LOW AND THE APPARENT INCREASE IN MENTAL DISORDERS,

THE SEXUAL REVOLUTION PREDICTED BY THESE MODERN PROPHETS IS WELL UNDERWAY TODAY. PLANNED PARENTHOOD AND PUBLIC EDUCATORS HAVE HIJACKED SEX EDUCATION, IGNORING THE RIGHTS OF PARENTS TO TEACH THEIR OWN CHILDREN.

THESE SEX EDUCATON PROGRAMS INCLUDE KINDERGARTEN TO 12TH GRADE. THESE SEX EDUCATION PROGRAMS ARE VALUE FREE. THEY PRESENT SEX AS AMORAL TAKING US BACK TO PAGAN DAYS OF ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME.

IF YOU GRANDPARENTS ARE WONDERING WHY YOUR GRANDCHILDREN HAVE SOME WEIRD IDEAS ABOUT SEX AND MARRIAGE, YOU SHOULD KNOW THAT THEY ARE NO LONGER LEARNING THE PLAN OF GOD FOR MARRIAGE AND SEXUALITY AS TAUGHT IN THE JUDEO-CHRISTIAN VALUE SYSTEM.

WHAT ARE YOUR CHILDREN LEARNING? THEY ARE LEARNING THE VALUE FREE PLAN FROM THE ANCIENT PAGAN CULTURES. THEY ARE LEARNING THAT PROCREATION SHOULD BE SEPARATED FROM SEXUAL ACTIVITY. THEY ARE LEARNING THAT SEX IS NOT SACRED. THE HUMAN PERSON HAS NO SPECIAL DIGNITY. THE HUMAN PERSON IS NOT THE IMAGE OF GOD. THE SLOGAN OF THE SEXUAL ANARCHIST IS: “NO GODS, NO MASTERS”. THIS IS THE HEART OF THE SEXUAL REVOLUTION. THIS IS WHAT YOUR LOVED ONES ARE LEARNING ABOUT SEX, MARRIAGE AND FAMLY.

IF YOU UNDERSTAND THIS YOU MAY BETTER UNDERSTAND WHAT IS GOING ON IN THE STREETS OF OUR CITIES.

IF THE BILL BEFORE THE FRENCH PARLIAMENT PASSES, THE ENEMIES OF THE JUDEO-CHRISTIAN VALUE SYSTEM WILL ACTUALLY ESTABLISH A PROCREATION MARKET WHERE BODY PARTS MAY BE BOUGHT AND SOLD. PLANNED PARENTHOOD INTERNATIONAL WILL HAVE FREE REIGN TO CONTINUE THEIR MACCABRE BUSINESS.

IF THE BILL BEFORE THE FRENCH PARLIAMENT PASSES, THE ENEMIES OF THE JUDEO-CHRISTIAN VALUE SYSTEM WILL HAVE SUCCEEDED IN SEPARATING PROCREATION FROM SEXUALITY.

IF THE BILL PASSES, CONCEPTION WILL BE A MERE MECHANICAL ACT CONTROLLED BY TECHNOLOGY AND GOVERNMENT.  

IF THE BILL PASSES, THE LAST NAIL WILL BE HAMMERED INTO THE COFFIN OF JUDEO-CHRISTIAN CULTURE ABOUT MARRIAGE, FAMILY LIFE AND THE VALUE OF EVERY HUMAN PERSON.  IF THIS BILL PASSES, THE MARXISTS WILL SMILE ALL THE WAY TO THE EXTERMINATION CAMPS.

I AM NOT A PROPHET. I AM JUST A SIMPLE PRIEST. BUT I RESPECT THE PROPHETS AND I AM CONVINCED THAT THE PROPHETS WE HAVE HEARD FROM TODAY GAVE US AN ACCURATE DESCRIPTION OF THE DESTRUCTIVE RESULTS OF ATHEISM AND THE REJECTION OF GOD’S PLAN FOR MARRIAGE AND HUMAN SEXUALITY.

I AM CONVINCED THAT ACCEPTANCE OF ABORTION IS THE END PRODUCT OF ATHEISM, ANARCHY AND THE SEXUAL REVOLUTION. POWER-- HUNGRY PEOPLE WANT TO BE IN CONTROL OF LIFE. WITHOUT GOD THEY CAN DO ANYTHING THEY WANT.

I AM CONVINCED THAT ABORTION IS NOT JUST ONE ISSUE. I AGREE WITH THE BISHOPS AND POPE FRANCIS THAT ABORTION IS THE PREEMINENT ISSUE. I AM CONVINCED THAT ABORTION IS A DEFINING ISSUE THAT WILL IMPACT OUR JUDEO-CHRISTIAN WORLD VIEW AND THE CULTURE THAT DEPENDS ON IT.

 

I  BELIEVE THAT THE TOXIC CHARACTER OF THE SEXUAL REVOLUTION WILL EVENTUALLY GIVE WESTERN CIVILIZATION AN EXPIRATION DATE. THE GOD OF LIFE WILL NOT LONG TOLERATE THE SHABBY WAY THAT WE HAVE TREATED HIS MOST IMPORTANT CREATION—HUMAN LIFE. 

STILL I AM HOPEFUL, BECAUSE I AM ALSO CONVINCED, THAT ROE VS WADE WILL SOMEDAY BE OVERTURNED. A TRUSTED JUDGE SAID THAT ROE VS. WADE IS NOT BEYOND REVERSEABLE. THAT TRUSTED JUDGE MAY SOON BE A JUSTICE OF THE SUPREME COURT.

IF WE PAY ATTENTION TO THE LIFE-- PROPHETS OF OUR DAY WE MAY BE FORTUNATE ENOUGH TO ESCAPE THE FATE OF ISRAEL WHO IGNORED AND REJECTED THE PROPHETS OF THEIR DAY.

AS SOMEONE SAID: “THE WORLD ISN'T ALL WEEDS; WHEAT GROWS AMONG THE WEEDS. JESUS, I TRUST IN YOU.