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Risk of scandalizing children - avoid watching the Rose Bowl Parade it will end with a gαy "marriage".

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 PASADENA, CA, December 19, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – It’s the West Coast equivalent of New York’s Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade – the world-famous Tournament of Roses Parade held each New Year’s Day in the Los Angeles suburb of Pasadena. The parade, featuring giant festive floats colored not with paint, but with millions of fresh-cut flowers, usually draws a huge crowd: Last year, an estimated 800,000 people showed up to watch in person, while another 80 million around the world watched on television.

This year, the event’s viewers will see more than just the family-friendly parade they’ve come to expect over the event’s more than 100-years-long history – they’ll also witness a controversial same-sex “wedding,” courtesy of the AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF).

According to the Pasadena Star News, a pair of ɧoɱosɛҳųαƖ hair stylists will “marry” on the parade route while riding a wedding-cake shaped float sponsored by the AHF.

Danny Leclair, 45, and Aubrey Loots, 42, jointly own the DNA Salons hairstyling chain in Southern California.

Leclair, a Canadian, told the Star News that he and his South African-born boyfriend had not planned to get married any time soon, but after he entered a lottery to ride on the AHF’s float at a “gαy wedding” expo last fall, his name was drawn and they jumped at the chance.

“Having my relationship recognized legally is already a dream come true," Leclair said in an AHF press release. "To be able to declare my love to the world at large in hopes of inspiring others to live proudly and authentically is an enormous honor."

The first ever Rose Parade wedding was in 1989, when Carrie Humphries and Ron Simms tied the knot while riding a float in front of what media reports called “one of the largest audiences ever to witness a wedding ceremony.”

Last January, a Virginia couple, Nicole Angelillo and Gerald Sapienza, became only the second couple to get hitched during the parade, after winning a contest put on by Farmers Insurance to get married on top of “The Love Float.”

Only heterosɛҳuąƖ couples were eligible for the Farmers Insurance contest last year, since Proposition 8 had not yet been struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court. The company had initially planned to repeat the contest and do another wedding themed float in 2014, but changed its mind shortly after launching the contest, announcing it would honor teachers with its float instead.

One more reason to NOT watch it again this year...
I'll get more out of my traditional viewing of Braveheart anyway.

A priest (I forgot his name) said TV is the Tabernacle of Satan. He is right. All of us should sever ourselves from this tool of deception, manipulation, blasphemy, distraction, impurity, corruption and scandal.

That was Father Frank Poncelet (R.I.P.).  He was one on the short list of priests who never said the Newmass.  

There are a few threads about him here on CI.  

"Television is the devil's tabernacle."

Fr. Poncelet had a newsletter called "Our Lady's Apostolate for No TV," and he was the author of two books, Air Waves From Hell and Television: Prelude to Chaos.


People who would never have the Tabernacle of Our Lord in their home, welcome the devil's tabernacle with open arms, and they give it their undivided attention for hours on end, when they wouldn't think for a moment of having a Holy Hour before the Blessed Sacrament.  

I know one man who was unfamiliar with a Holy Hour and the concept of Eucharistic Adoration, who showed up at church early after work one First Friday so he could be on time for the 5:00 pm scheduled Holy Hour.  He had to hurry over there after work to arrive before 5:00 in the afternoon.  Later he told me his impression of that experience.  He said, "I couldn't believe it.  Fr. came out and set the monstrance down in front of the tabernacle, and then he just walked away, and that was IT!  There was NOTHING HAPPENING for the next 54 minutes!  Just NOTHING.  A few people sat in the pews, reading books.  But I didn't know there was going to be all this DEAD AIR TIME, so I didn't bring anything to read.  It was incredible.  JUST NOTHING."  

It was at that point that  I realized what TV has accomplished.  This man spends most every free moment at home watching TV.  His favorite pastime is vintage movies, with a little bit of specials and modern movies thrown into the mix for variety.  But his specialty is the old Westerns.  It is practically a religion.  The familiar 'stars' are demigods, and the 'value' of this 'entertainment' is something that he feels entitled to because he goes to work, punches a time clock (as it were) and does his job, as little as he wants to.  He endures all this so he has earned the 'right' to be 'entertained'.

So when he went to this "Holy Hour" at church, he expected to see some ACTION.  But there was no priest 'working the stage' and there was no acolytes prancing around with candles, or ANYTHING LIKE THAT.  There was just NOTHING.  And that made him feel like he was somehow cheated out of something.  



P.S.  Is this the last post of 2013 on CI?  

~  I guess it is, in the Pacific Standard Time Zone, anyway (GMT -8).




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