Blair, Catholics and Truth

Former Prime Minister Tony Blair rejects the Catholic teaching on Homosexuality.here

I find this news article interesting on so many fronts. Catholic Doctrine, Conversion, Tradition, Truth, Church/Culture just to list a few. But I think what strikes me the most is an underlying premise that FPM Blair and so many people have with respect to faith. People seem to think that faith is by one's personal design. "Oh, I like this teaching and can live with it but oh this one is too strict it just can't be right", is a pitiful and pitiable stance.

When FPM Blair speaks of the OT and the passages in Leviticus I am willing to give him the BOTD and assume that he has actually read the OT and discussed the ideas relevant to the issue with his clergy. Knowing what the Pope has said and what the official stance of the Catholic Church is on the matter what can we do with FPM Blair's comments?

Dismiss them as some kind of grab for the face time in print. After all he may be running for the first Presidency of the EU and if his claims are accurate that the greater percentage of catholics in the pews disagree with the official Catholic position, which I don't actually believe is the case, then it would be politically expedient for him to align himself with those pew sitters. Let's face it the Catholic church doesn't have the pull it used to have back in the days of Henry the 8Th. Then again what church does.

Which leads me to why I started this post. As a follower of Christ, a reader of blogs, a minister of the Gospel the current trend of replacing truth with anything that is expedient is beginning to become laughable. I started this blog to earnestly contend for the faith. That faith which has been revealed in Scripture. Tony Blair is not the supreme arbiter of truth or faith. His use of cultural change to be the beacon of truth is pathetic at best. Truth is truth. Does that mean that the truth which we now hold to be truth will not change? Yes and no. If what we hold to be truth is truth then it will not change. If what we hold needs modification to be "more true" then yes it will change...it was simply incomplete. But if the truth we now hold is untrue then it must change. Is FPM Blair saying that the Biblical Truth of the nature of homosexuality, as revealed in Leviticus and in Romans, as sin is in need of change because times have changed? I think he is and I think he is wrong. Culture cannot be the grid we pass truth through. Culture is too easily manipulated and truth is unyielding.