"Fr. James Martin: Those who oppose my Vatican ‘approved’ pro-LGBT message aren’t ‘orthodox’"

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"Pro-LGBT Jesuit priest and Vatican advisor Fr. James Martin is suggesting that those who oppose his message of affirmation to homosexuals are not only going against the 'Vatican,' but they are not 'orthodox.'

In a tweet sent out on Monday, Martin criticized dozens of Catholics in Atlanta, Georgia for protesting Archbishop Wilton Gregory’s invitation to the pro-LGBT priest to speak at two local parishes next month.

Martin trotted out three arguments as proofs of his orthodoxy, attempting to turn the tables on those who object to his efforts to normalize homosexuality within the Catholic Church.

'The irony: An archbishop, the legitimate ordinary of the archdiocese, invites a priest in good standing, who has stated he is not challenging church teaching, to deliver a lecture on welcome that had been approved by the Vatican. Who is orthodox here?' he tweeted...

The controversy grew from Fr. Martin’s announcement that he would be speaking at the Atlanta parishes. Martin tweeted:

'Archbishop Wilton Gregory of Atlanta has graciously invited me to his archdiocese to speak,' he said, 'so I will be speaking at St. Thomas More Parish (the Jesuit parish) on Sat. Oct 20 and at the Shrine of the Immaculate Conception on the morning of Sun. Oct 21.'

'I will be speaking on the same topic as I did at the World Meeting of Families... Showing Welcome and Respect in Our Parishes to LGBT People and their Families... ” noted Martin in a follow-up tweet.

Martin’s announcement came on the heels of his pro-LGBT World Meeting of Families presentation, where he declared that active homosexuals 'should be invited into parish ministries' specifically mentioning them becoming 'eucharistic ministers' in order to make them welcomed and accepted in the Catholic Church.

Throughout his talk, Martin spoke of ‘LGBT Catholics,’ reinforcing the notion that God creates men and women gay, lesbian or transgender."