Understand what to do with ADO26 and Law 672/2019
“Everyone should be able to express themselves as she can and however she wants in the face of her conscience, but the Church must be able to tell her faithful what opinions correspond to her faith and which do not. It’s a right and a duty, so yes it is yes and not [?]. ?
(Joseph Ratzinger) [1]
Is the battlefield the meeting place of the military forces, the scene of important battles, in wars?Fair or not. Throughout history it has always been like this: fight and, if possible, win the war, conquer the enemy, destroy to rebuild.
In ideological warfare, however, we are far from something “fair. “The conflict of minds and hearts occurs everywhere: there is no longer room for a civilized circle, it is a guerrilla war. This movement has always existed and Mao-Tsé is teaching defined the essence of guerrilla warfare in seven rules: intimate agreement between the population and the guerrillas, withdrawal from an enemy advance in force, harassment and attack in the face of an enemy retreat, a confrontation – Strategy five, a five-on-one tactic, in particular through the so-called “centripetal retreat” , i. e. the concentration of forces during withdrawal (it had a lot of space in China); in short, logistics and weaponry thanks to what is taken from the enemy. [2]
Is this symbol of “revolutionary struggle”?it is not for nothing in progressive imagery; their sense of resilience and constant pressure is a feature of collectivists, on several fronts, and ever wider ones, to deteriorate the institutional foundations of the West. And, over the past 50 years, we can see that LGBTQ activism stubbornly seeks much more than “respect, “even more than “acceptance,” but the absolute imposition of its truth hurts whoever hurts.
The 2018 election gave an impression of “retraction” in various areas of the progressive ideological guerrilla war, so we often heard the term ‘reverse’ because, in his opinion, the inexorable march towards progress (minister Barroso’s words at the time of the vote were exposed to HC do Lula when he was arrested by second-instance decision) is banned when Conservative forces manage to mobilize people and win. It’s time to retreat to one area and focus your strengths on another. Where? In the supreme.
ADO26 was proposed by the PPS (Socialist People’s Party) in December 2013, shortly after the House buried the famous PLC 122/2006, which dealt with the creation of a new type of crime, the crime of homophobia. The Legislature? (Or was it an eloquent silence?) For not legislating on this ground and then it would be up to the Supreme Court to fill this gap, fill the void. The year 2014 has arrived and progressing has continued in 2016, the political trial launched a combative retraction process. Bolsonaro’s election has intensified conflicts in traditionally “rigged” arenas, and the Supreme Court, with the formation of ministers including a progressive worldview, is one of them.
In the name of fighting, the guerrillas ignore the fundamental problems: the first is to provoke a crime without prior definition in the law, a massacre of the rule of law (including Minister Marco Aurélio’s own concern for the fact); the second is to create a superc citizen situation?homosexual, who now has a subjective public right to choose what kind of crime?it will be considered homophobic or not, after all, there are no positive indicators in a specific type of crime for this.
The ruling was suspended by Minister Dias Toffoli, thanks to a strategy of the Chamber of Deputies, which is not lenient on the subject in question, because of the predominance of conservative-profile deputies, according to information from columnist Renan Barbosa [3]. . But there is already a majority formed, that is, collapse is only a matter of time.
One way to seek a legislative solution to the issue given the militant movement in the judiciary was PL No. 672/2019, approved by the Constitution and Justice Commission in the midst of the trial. The criminalization of homophobia is the central content of the law. , with the exception of religious temples; However, it is unclear whether the exercise of faith (which goes beyond the temple) will also be maintained.
The weather is unsafe. Can we continue to declare the heteronormative and monogamous pattern on our chairs?Can we talk about sexual sins and depraved practices?Will we be able to warn our young people without being considered by the law a hate crime?These are unanswered questions. The future will be full of legal disputes in this area and we need, more than ever, to strengthen our foundations as an organization to be prepared for what awaits us.
An example is precisely to show the theological, deep and secular basis of monogamous and heterosexual marriage. It’s not just a social convention, it’s a dogma of faith. The writings of the Christian Tradition explain why the Church has this foundation in its identity. Is it an anthropological vision? Who sees humanity in an integral sense: created in the image and likeness of God:
The anthropology of the early Church owes much to Jewish thought, particularly to the testamentary doctrine of veterans that human beings were created in the image and likeness of God (Genesis 1:26-31). Paul reprised this idea when he spoke of God’s sanctification in the “new man, renewed for full knowledge, in the image of the one who created it” (Cl 3. 9:10; cf. Ep 4. 22-24). In fact, the Apostle described the process of Christian growth as a gradual conformity to the image of Jesus Christ (Romans 8. 29; 2Co 3. 18). Pauline insistence on the need to renew God’s image in us can only mean that this image, before salvation and the process of sanctification, was tragically disfigured and corrupted by sin [4].
As for marriage, the determinations to which we owe obedience are recorded in the scriptures and in the writings of the fathers of the Church, contrary to the progressive accusations that such peculiarities of marriage are the result of a culture that aims to oppress others We will actually realize that they are the result of reading the Bible , reverberated by a scholastic, patristic and reformed theology: branches dedicated to the study of the word of God and its consequences on human life. against the good), St. Thomas Aquinas preaches:
It should be noted that when something is ordered for different purposes, it needs different bosses for them, because the end is given to the officer. Now, the human generation has many objectives: the sustainability of the species, the preservation of a social good. , as well as the conservation of a village in a city. Its purpose is also the perpetuity of the Church, which consists in the congregation of the faithful. [
We also quote his speech, answering whether marriage is a union, in article 1 of question 44, which deals with the definition of marriage from a Christian perspective:
The relationship makes two beings refer to each other. However, marriage leads two beings to refer to each other: thus, the man is called the wife and wife of the husband. Marriage therefore belongs to the sex of the relationship and is nothing more than a union [6].
To be the goals of the human generation identified as the doctor of the church relates us, according to Genesis 1,27, where it is said that God created man and woman in his image and likeness, referring us to order, systematized in creation.
[?] marriage is natural, because natural reason bends back to it. Firstly, as for its main objective, which is the good of offspring, because nature is not only directed at the generation of children, but at their creation and even the perfect state of man, as such, which is the state of virtuosity. Hence, according to the Philosopher, the three benefits we obtain from our parents: existence, nutrition and discipline. Now a child without determined parents and some could not be educated and educated by them. And this certainty would not exist without the obligation to unite a man with a particular woman, which constitutes marriage [7].
Another reformed word that is in line with the tradition of parents, according to the Great Catechism of Westminster:
After making the other creatures, God created man, male and female, with a rational and immortal soul, and endowed them with intelligence, justice, and perfect holiness, in his own image, having God’s Law written in his heart. power to do so, but with the possibility of transgressing it, remaining to the freedom of his own will, which was variable. [8]
There is still that “marriage must be between a man and a woman” (Chapter XXIV, item I), and that “marriage was ordained for the mutual help of husband and wife, for the spread of the human race by a legitimate succession and of the Church by holy seed, and to prevent impurity” (Chapter XXIV, point II). The rule is clear: there is no way to put into perspective the foundations of the Church on the subject.
Faced with real threats to the freedom to believe and profess such truths, the Church urgently needs to conform to religious law in order to protect itself from arbitrariness, legislative or judicial. society and in public power.
Whether it’s the setting for the STF’s decision and the bill, we must act. Here are the basics of religious law:
“Religious law”, which communicates with public law and private law [?]. Religious law adds two subdivisions per se, canon law and ecclesiastical law. [?] The Church has always been linked to the State and society to varying degrees, and this external relationship has always existed, arising from rights and duties that we call ecclesiastical law. [?] Canon law is that subdivision of religious law addressed to the canons of the Church, of the Greek term, rule, norm. [?] The whole internal legal order of a religious organization?[9]
Does ecclesiastical law deal with the relationship between the Church and society, and does canon law deal with the internal rules of the Church?built and consolidated on the basis of his confession of faith. This is expressed, in Brazil, in the internal statutes and regulations of religious organizations. Although the term only gains visibility among the Catholic Church, canon law is not an exclusive monopoly of it, as we note in our book:
We understand as canon law the entire internal legal order of a religious organization, not limited only to the Catholic Church, but to any church, including non-Christian churches, as is the case in ecclesiastical law. [10]
Our argument: the neglect of the documentary sources of our faith makes us vulnerable to the accusation of bigots. How can we oppose behavior without being enshrined in our standards?The tool of Protestant canon law will be indispensable for the proper protection of our interests.
Some examples of canon law
[?] The canonical law of other religious organizations is organized, with variations according to the belief system and the faith existing in each denomination, because it could not be different. For example, for Lutheranism, its main source of canon law is its doctrine statement, called the Book of Concorde, which consists of ten documents of beliefs that are recognized as an authority for Lutherans on canon law, in addition, of course, to the Holy Bible; Can we see here?ink of belief in the palette of Lutheran canon law. The Methodist Church has the book of discipline as its main source of canon law, which governs the laws, rules, policies, and directives of Methodism, as well as the Holy Bible. [11]
Nor did the early Church lack internal organization; In fact, the body of Christ is made up of people, but we can use the means of organization for the most effective exercise of the defense of faith against any evil oppression that might occur, including the spheres of power of a nation. It is worth remembering what La Rochelle’s Confession of Faith teaches about the government of the Church, as an ally to protect it from the attacks of the world:
That’s why we recommend
1?Technical reinforcement of Church documents? Statutes, rules of procedure, code of information, affiliation pact, etc. , for a legal-canonical alignment with the rules of faith and practice of each religious organization;
2? Permanent training of leaders in religious freedom in the use of pulpit, legal assistance in pastoral counseling, working with children and youth, to standardize the Church’s language on the subject;
3? Education of the members on the subject, both on the institutional theological position and on individual positions: social networks, conversations and other interactions.
There is no longer room for an ecclesiastical government that dissofies the great issues that affect the Church in its coexistence with the world, which we do not want to be taken away from the world (beforehand), but preserved from evil.
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[1] RATZINGER, Joseph. Being a Christian in the neo-pagan era. Flight. 1. Speeches and homilies (1986-1999). Ecclesiae. São Paulo, 2014. p. 85 [2] https://pt. wikipedia. org/wiki/Guerrilha, consulted on 5/27/2019. [3] BARBOSA, Renan. All the conflicts behind the stagnation of the criminalization of homophobia. Available at: [4] ALLISON, Gregg R. Historical Theology: An Introduction to the Development of Christian Doctrine. São Paulo: Vida Nova, 2017. p. 384. [5] FROM AQUINO, Tomás. Against the Gentiles. Book IV, chapter LXXVIII. Ecclesiae. São Paulo, 2016. p. 747 [6] FROM AQUINO, Tomás. Theological sum. Vol. 5? Extra charge. Ecclesiae. São Paulo, 2016. p. 206 [7] FROM AQUINO, Thomas. Theological sum. Vol. 5? Extra charge. Ecclesiae. São Paulo, 2016. p. 191 and 192 [8] Geneva Study Bible. The Westminster Confession of Faith. 2nd ed. São Paulo, 2009. p. 1788 [9] VIEIRA, Thiago Rafael. Religious law: practical and theoretical issues / Thiago Rafael Vieira; Jean Marques Regina. Porto Alegre: Concórdia, 2018. p. 53, 60 and 61 [10] VIEIRA, Thiago Rafael. Religious law: practical and theoretical issues / Thiago Rafael Vieira; Jean Marques Regina. Porto Alegre: Concórdia, 2018. p. 61 [11] Ibdem, p. 64 [12] Confession of faith of the Reformed Churches of France, called La Rochelle Confession of Faith (1559 AD) Available at: Accessed on 05/26/2019
By: Jean Marques Regina and Thiago Rafael Vieira. © return to the Gospel. Website: voltemosaoevangelho. com. All rights reserved. Original: Criminalization of Homophobia: Judicial Activism x Bill.