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São Paulo Homosexual Parade:
Sodom and Gomorrah
by Luiz Sérgio Solimeo
Looking at pictures of the June
10 homosexual demonstration in São Paulo, Brazil,
I asked myself how large might the combined populations
of Sodom and Gomorrah have been. Each city certainly could
not have had more than a few thousand inhabitants.
Promoters of the Sao Paulo “gay
pride parade” claim more than three million either
participated or watched from the sidewalks, making it the
world’s largest such event. The number is undoubtedly
exaggerated since the boulevard simply could not fit that
many people. However, there is no denying that a considerable
crowd of perhaps one million was present. Photographs show
a whole 1.6 mile section of the Avenida Paulista filled
with people.
Thus, it is most certain that the number
of those who went to proclaim “pride” in the
practice of vice or to entertain themselves watching a public
proclamation of this “pride” was much greater
than the population of both Sodom and Gomorrah.
The biblical narration does not speak
of similar parades in the two cities. Its silence in this
regard leads one to think that such demonstrations were
reserved for our sad times.
This is understandable. Corruptio
optimi pessima, that is to say the corruption of the
best is the worst. When those who climb higher slip, the
force of gravity makes them fall even lower.
This is why that which Prophet Isaias
says of the king of Babylon is attributed to Satan: “How
have you fallen from the heavens, O morning star, son of
the dawn! How are you cut down to the ground, you who mowed
down the nations!”1
When one rejects Our Lord Jesus Christ
and his gentle yoke2, one falls
under the tyranny of the worst passions.
Weeping over the cities that rejected him,
Our Lord exclaimed:
“And thou Capharnaum, shalt thou
be exalted up to heaven? Thou shalt go down even unto hell.
For if in Sodom had been wrought the miracles that have
been wrought in thee, perhaps it had remained unto this
day. But I say unto you, that it shall be more tolerable
for the land of Sodom in the day of judgment, than for thee.”3
Brazil had the grace to be founded as
a Catholic nation. From the Portuguese who discovered and
colonized her, Brazil received its culture, language, customs
and, above all, the ineffable gift of the Faith.
São Paulo itself was founded by
the Jesuits. Around their college where they catechized
the curumins (the Indian children), the city grew and prospered.
In the 1930’s, the city had a powerful Marian movement
led by Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira, who later founded
the Brazilian Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family
and Property (TFP).
Then came the crisis inside the Church,
the triumph of “Liberation Theology,” and the
abandonment of an evangelization aimed at the salvation
of souls and the triumph of the Hearts of Jesus and Mary.
Good Catholic formation was replaced with class struggle,
the formation of leftist rural and urban agitators, the
spreading of Basic Christian Communities and so on. Leftist
Catholic activity later developed into the backbone of the
socialist Workers Party now in power.
Abandoned, many of the sheep left the
fold and began to listen to other shepherds. They were an
easy prey to the devastating effects of the sexual revolution
of the sixties that later paved the way for homosexual propaganda
in schools, television, fashions and other media.
While many clerics clamored for “social
reform,” they maintained an inexplicable silence regarding
important points of Catholic morals.
There was a general exodus from the Catholic
Church to other religions. Above all, Brazil saw an ever
more accentuated surge in irreligiousness.
The result is what one sees today: the
Avenida Paulista, the symbolic central avenue of a once
Catholic city, is invaded by a huge crowd which, by gestures,
attitudes and slogans, proclaim its apostasy from those
Catholic and natural morals that are inscribed on the hearts
of all men.
As was said, that crowd, whose attitude
would make even pagans blush, was much larger in number
than the combined population of Sodom and Gomorrah.
Nevertheless, Sodom and Gomorrah were
punished by Providence. “And the Lord said: The cry
of Sodom and Gomorrah is multiplied, and their sin is become
exceedingly grievous. I will go down and
see whether they have done according to the cry that is
come to me: or whether it be not so, that I may know.”4
In spite of Lot’s intercession,
once the inhabitants of Sodom tried to molest the angels
sent by God (believing they were men) fire rained down from
heaven.
“The sun was risen upon the
earth, and Lot entered into Segor. And the Lord rained upon
Sodom and Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out
of heaven. And he destroyed these cities and all the country
about, all the inhabitants of the cities, and all things
that spring from the earth.”5
While I certainly pray that this does not
happen to São Paulo, these are a few reflections
that occur to me as a Brazilian looking at the pictures
and reading the news about the incredible homosexual “pride”
parade held in that city on the Sunday of the Most Holy
Body and Blood of Jesus Christ.
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