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#334 Is Chastity Education Anti-Gay? - Monica Doumit

Catholic Answers Focus

Catholic Answers

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.81.5K Ratings

🗓️ 15 March 2021

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Our friend from down under, Monica Doumit, the Director of Public Affairs and Engagement for the Archdiocese of Sydney, shares another legal innovation from Australia, laws that are meant to protect gay people by making it illegal to teach chastity as Catholics understand it. We ask her what the laws require, and what the Catholic Church actually teaches about human sexuality.

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0:00.0

Is chastity a hate crime? Monica Dumont is next.

0:08.1

Hello and welcome to Focus, the Catholic Answers Podcast for Living Understanding and

0:11.7

Defending Your Catholic Faith. I'm Sy Kelly at your host and we ask a very serious question

0:16.6

this episode. Is it a hate crime to teach the Christian understanding of chastity?

0:21.5

Is the sexual revolution continues more and more secular authorities and social media companies

0:28.0

trying to censor those who would teach or promote a Christian understanding of chastity?

0:33.2

The way we've understood sexual morality for 2,000 years is bit by bit being looked at as not

0:40.0

just suspect but hateful. We don't like to pick on Australia. We're not trying to pick on

0:44.8

Australia. We just did a recent episode on Australia and the confessional. But we invited the

0:50.4

guest from that episode back, our friend Monica Dumont, from the Archdiocese of Sydney, Australia.

0:56.3

To come and talk to us about new movement or a current movement in Australia, to outlaw

1:04.4

what seems to be perfectly normal, Christian teaching and Christian practice when it comes to chastity.

1:12.1

Here's Monica Dumont.

1:21.7

Monica Dumont, radical feminist. Thanks for being with us.

1:24.8

My pleasure. Great to be here.

1:26.4

Do you know why I called you radical feminists?

1:28.0

I absolutely know why you called me radical feminists.

1:31.1

Yeah, it's somebody here in America picking on you trying to sell books by calling you radical feminists.

1:36.2

But we appreciate so much of what you do standing up for life, especially in extreme circumstances,

1:42.9

standing against things like euthanasia, standing up for the faith and freedom of religion.

1:47.1

And now we're going to ask you about more Australia. We should almost call these episodes

1:52.4

wild and crazy Australia. So many interesting things.

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