BLASPHEMOUS DRAG QUEEN’S ‘AMA NAMIN’

WHILE Archbishop Socrates Villegas denounced the video of a drag queen’s performance using the Lord’s Prayer “Ama Namin” (Our Father), as “blasphemous and grossly disrespectful,” he also said this was started by vulgarity during the past government.

In his gospel reflection read by priests during masses at the St. John the Evangelist Cathedral and all churches of archdiocese last Sunday, July 16, Archbishop Villegas said “the seeds for this scandalous video were already planted in the field when we allowed vulgarity by high leader in government to become a joking matter,” citing the video of the mockery of ‘Ama Namin’ by the queer community.

“The small seeds were planted when we chose cowardly silence as God was cursed by the highest government official. We giggled and later on voted for more officials who support such vulgarity. We were in cahoots. The seeds were planted then,” he said.

“The seeds of this blasphemy were already sown by the enemies of God when the Church and our bishops were threatened with murder and called obscene and irreverent names and we quietly conspired,” he added.

“We call God our Father but do not treat one another as brothers and sisters. We call God our Father but nodded with approval when drug addicts were killed. Killing others made our lives safer? Is that the way to worship God as Farther?”

“Our lips pray ‘Hallowed be your name’ and yet our hands on or gadgets confect calumny and gossip and slander. Is God’s name adored by our fake news? We have even baptized gossipers  and rumor mongers as Marites. These are seeds of the weeds,” the prelate continued.

“We beg Him ‘to give us our daily bread’ but we accept money to sell our votes. Is God honored when we tolerate and benefit from the stolen money of public servants?” Is not our acceptance of the culture of graft and plunder of public money a greater blasphemy?

“We ask God ‘to forgive us’ and yet we have chosen to solve our social problems by the ‘extra-judicial’ way (outside the court of law) by killing and later covering up for the murderers of those who were never proven guilty. Who can the defenders of mass murderers and crimes against humanity pray to ask God for forgiveness when their lifestyle is exactly opposite?

Archbishop Villegas said “ if we are really honest and humble enough, we should be ready to admit that we planted the seeds of weeds in the past by our indifference, cowardice and connivance”. (Leonardo Micua)

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