"I can't bake you a cake, because I love you"

Suppose you're a Christian -- a committed Christian who takes seriously the teachings of the Bible and the Church, including the teaching that homosexual sexual acts are morally wrong and will lead those who perform them to face the judgment of God.

And suppose you're a baker, one whose business it is to create, among other things, wedding cakes for couples who are about to celebrate their marriage. According to the politically correct laws of the land -- many US states and all of Canada -- that would include gay couples intent on entering into a same-sex "marriage".

Advocates of same-sex "marriage" -- Walt puts the word in quotes because a union between two men or two women cannot be a valid "marriage" sanctioned and blessed by God -- want to force Christian bakers to bake cakes celebrating such "marriages". If they don't, they face civil or even criminal penalties for refusing to do what their religion and conscience forbid them to do.

In "I Can't Bake Your Cake, Because I Love You", published yesterdary on Aleteia, a website for searchers for the truth, Dr. Dennis Bonnette argues that the Christian's refusal to accept the custom of a homosexual couple is not an act of homophobia or hate, the PC lamestream media would have us believe, but an act of love.

Dr. Bonnette has been mentioned before here on WWW. Until his retirement in 2003, he was a Full Professor of Philosophy at Niagara University in Lewiston NY. He is the author of Aquinas' Proofs for God's Existence and Origin of the Human Species: Third Edition. He is presently teaching free courses in philosophy at the Aquinas School of Philosophy in Lewiston. Agent 10 (to whom much thanks for sharing this) attends regularly, and will send you details if you let me know your e-address.

Also by Dr. Bonnette: "What Marriage Is and Isn't, and What to Expect from a Redefinition"

Worth reading again on WWW: "Homosexuality condemned in the Word of God"

VIDEO: Atheistic materialism vs classical metaphysics

WARNING: This video contains strong (= powerful) language and incredibly deep subject matter. It is suitable only for mature adults interested in coming to grips with the arguments for "scientific materialism" -- the philosophy (for such it is!) espoused by Richard Dawkins and Stephen Hawking -- and classical metaphysics, as propounded by Aristotle and St. Thomas Aquinas.

This lecture "Does Richard Dawkins Exist? An Introduction to Atheistic Materialism and Theistic Hylomorphism" was given last week at the Aquinas School of Philosophy by Dennis Bonnette. It was taped by Agent 10 [Congratulations on your appointment! Ed.] who can be heard chuckling at  a couple of Dr. Bonnette's clever lines.



The video is just over an hour long, and Walt concedes that it's pretty heavy going, particularly for the first 40 minutes or so in which Dr. Bonnette tries to make sense of the atheists' argument that the universe exists merely by chance.

Walt does not pretend to have "got it" completely the first time through, or even the second. But if you take the time to listen carefully, the lecture is truly superb.

At the end, Dr. Bonnette mentions that his talk is part of a series, given Fridays at 6:30 p.m. If you live in the vicinty of Lewiston NY and would like to attend, click here for details. You never know who you might be sitting next to!

You can get a DVD of this presentation for only $5. Tell `em Walt sent ya!